Etches First Look With ‪@yukesmusic‬

video upload by Puremagnetik

"Thanks to ‪@yukesmusic‬ for creating a new video exploring the rich soundscapes and sound design that Etches has to offer.

Etches Kit is a complete Etches synthesizer that you assemble yourself. The parts snap together. There's no soldering and nothing to source, so all you need is a small Phillips screwdriver and about twenty minutes.

Etches is a layered soundscape synthesizer. It's a palette for playing with sound, sketching melodic sections and building evolving tapestries. It moves between cinematic washes, percussive pizzicatos, and atmospheres worn smooth through ambient processing.

Inspired by live modular techniques, Etches is built upon classic synthesis and tape music traditions. Etches's main engine includes a complex oscillator, a splice recorder and built-in space processing.

We designed Etches to be performed. Every control is on the surface, and every gesture is audible the moment you make it. There are no traditional envelopes or filters here. You shape the timbre as you play.

Pick a root note, choose from eleven scales and modes, and the pads stay locked to that key while you move. It's hard to play a wrong note, which means you can focus on phrasing instead of finger positions.

At the center is a monophonic voice generator and a splice recorder with overdub, so you can layer sounds into something bigger than individual patches. An internal LFO moves against each splice, modulating where the recording starts and ends. It's a behavior we first used in our LAPS and JOTS pedals. Around all of that: a tape-style delay, and a stereo space processor you can get lost in."

You can find additional demos in previous posts here.