Desmodus Versio with Batverb: dark and ethereal modular synth set

video upload by Noise Engineering

0:00 Manis into Desmodus Versio
1:09 Hello Batverb
1:55 Infinite Footswitch
3:00 Doom and Shimmer
3:42 Grit Distortion
5:18 Adding in BIA and Debel

"Check out POB's dark and ethereal modular synth set putting the Manis voice into Desmodus Versio. After patching through Nive Grad to change levels, our angry signal gets to Batverb, our stereo tail generator.

Voice 1: Manis Iteritas Alia, sequenced by Gamut Repetitor generative sequencer, going through Desmodus Versio, before being sent through Nive Grad to Batverb.

Voice 2: Debel Iteritas Alia, through Roucha Legio stereo filter, then through Fala Versio, which is being LFO-modulated by Opp Ned.

Voice 3: Basimilus Iteritas Alia, being sequenced by Bin Seq.

Clocked with Horologic Solum.

Modules:
Nive Grad
Horologic Solum
Gamut Repetitor
Debel Iteritas Alia
Roucha Legio
Fala Versio
Muta Jovis

Desmodus Versio
Basimilus Iteritas Alia
Manis Iteritas Alia
Opp Ned
Bin Seq
Xer Dualis

If you’re a fan of our Eurorack products, you may notice some similarities between Batverb and Desmodus Versio. And it’s true: they share some similarly named controls, and a lot of their respective inspiration came from the same place. However, Batverb shares none of its code with Desmodus. It was completely written from the ground up as an entirely new product.

All the details on Batverb: https://noiseengineering.us/products/...

Batverb blog post: https://noiseengineering.us/blogs/loq...

We’re close to Desmodus’s five-year anniversary, and in that time we’ve learned a lot about reverb. Desmodus is still one of our favorite products we’ve ever released, but the knowledge we’ve gained allowed us to design Batverb to work particularly well with dynamic, polyphonic instruments like guitars as well as synths and the occasional saxophone. One of the first tests we did in early Batverb R&D was to plug a guitar into Desmodus Versio. It sounded nice, but, just like Desmodus was designed to play off of Eurorack’s strengths, we knew we wanted things to be different for a guitar-focussed product.

Listen to Batverb stereo reverb pedal with modular and hardware synths: • Listen to Batverb stereo reverb pedal... [2nd video here]

One major change between the products is that Batverb uses no delay-line modulation, resulting in a sound that’s more transparent – if you want it to be. Timbre shaping is done with five parameters: Hi Pass and Lo Pass allow you to filter the reverb tail into whatever space you’d like it to fill, Doom and Shimmer add low- and high-end content, and Grit makes things as clean or crunchy as you’d like.