New Pittsburgh Modular Impulse Filter Demo Video

Published on Dec 9, 2016 Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers

"Organic and percussive, the Dynamic Impulse Filter utilizes an entirely new, all analog design to replicate the impact transients and vibrance of a percussion hit. The result is a versatile lowpass filter that sounds natural and energetic. The Dynamic Impulse Filter works in one of three modes, lopass filter with resonance, high quality VCA, and a combined mode that manages both harmonics and gain at the same time. The core of the filter uses a Sallen-Key topology to produce a smooth two pole filter that will self-oscillate at high resonance settings."

"Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter

A New Species of Low Pass Gate

Organic and percussive, the Dynamic Impulse Filter utilizes an entirely new, all analog design to replicate the impact transients and vibrance of a percussion hit. The result is a versatile filter module that sounds natural and energetic.

We Love Vactrols Too...

The fruit of over two years of research and development, the Dynamic Impulse Filter evolves the lowpass gate into the present by retaining the sonic characteristics we love about vactrols while solving all the problems that come with it. The unique design of the Dynamic Impulse Filter replaces the vactrol with a modern analog circuit created to replicate and expand on the signature sound of the vactrol. The response time of the Dynamic Impulse Filter is not static like a vactrol; instead it is tunable allowing the response of the module to adapt to any musical context.

The suggested retail price for the Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter is $229 and it begins shipping to authorized resellers December 16. More information is available at www.pittsburghmodular.com/lifeforms-dynamic-impulse-filter"

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Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter Overview

Published on May 22, 2017 Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers

"Samwell Clark walks through the feature set and some of the sounds available from the Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter."

Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter

NAMM2017: Introducing Pittsburgh Modular New Lifeforsm Eurorack Modules

Published on Jan 18, 2017 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"Introducing Pittsburgh Modular New Lifeforms Eurorack Modules

Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms - Double Helix Oscillator
Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms - Binary Filter
Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms - Dynamic Impulse Filter
Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms - Mod Tools
Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms - System Interface"

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Playing the FM Bongos with the Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter

Playing the FM Bongos with the Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter from Learning Modular on Vimeo.

"A quick experiment with the Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers/Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter to create a variation of the classic 'Buchla Bongos' sound. I demo both LPG (Low Pass Gate, or filter + VCA) and VCF only modes, and play with the Dynamics Response which simulates a vactrol, with a lot of control over the "speed" of the vactrol (the length of the decay). I really like the sound of this LPG.

The patch is just a sawtooth from a Moog Mother-32 routed to the linear FM input of an Expert Sleepers Disting in mode 4C, with sine wave output. That goes to the Dynamic Impulse Filter (DIF), then out of the synth into the computer - no reverb or processing added. The first half of the video uses the Impulse input of the DIF, which just looks at the rising edge of a trigger coming in and gives its own response; the second half uses the normal Dynamic CV input, which is affected by the envelope coming into it (from a Roland 540, in this case).

The Lifeforms DIF is one of the many modules that will be covered in my upcoming 'Eurorack Expansion' course on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning. Learn more at LearningModular.com."

Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter: Processing Percussion (LMS: Eurorack Expansion Preview)

Published on Jun 11, 2017 Learning Modular

"The Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms Dynamic Impulse Filter (DIF for short) is a very nice update on the classic “West Coast” low pass gate. It combines a VCA and a Sallen-Key resonate two-pole filter with an update on the classic vactrol circuit that allows you to dial just the amount of natural percussive decay you want.

In this video (the 4th of 4 on the DIF in my upcoming “Eurorack Expansion” course), I demonstrate using the DIF to further modify the sound of a percussion module such as the Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas to create a powerful, punchy, easy to control hybrid percussion sound.

For more on using the Dynamic Impulse Filter, see the companion article on the LearningModular.com website: http://learningmodular.com/dynamic-im.... For more details including the list of movies and an overview of the full Eurorack Expansion course, visit: http://learningmodular.com/lms-eurora..."