Puremagnetik Etches | Getting Started

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"Etches Tutorial Series — Playlist Summary

A six-part walkthrough of Etches, covering every control on the instrument and how the sections work together. Watch in order if you're starting out, or jump to a specific video to reference a particular feature.

Etches is a touch-controlled synthesizer with FM oscillator, tape-style delay, stereo reverb, and an 160-second recorder. The series moves from setup through performance: power and calibration first, then articulation, sound design, effects, tuning, and finally the recorder.

**What's covered across the series:**

1. **Getting Started** — Power, stereo output, how the touch-resistive pads respond, SWELL as volume control, and calibrating SENS to your environment.

2. **The Articulation Pads** — STAC for plucked envelopes, DRIVE as combined overdrive and FM intensifier, INVERSE for parameter drift across seven destinations.

3. **The Oscillator** — FM synthesis basics, EDGE waveshape morphing, CYCLE for pluck character, and the FLUX/ORBIT pair that controls FM depth and rate.

4. **Effects** — Tape-style delay with self-oscillation, stereo reverb (SUSTAIN, FORM, WALLS), and the default signal flow through the instrument.

5. **Tuning** — ROOT for tonic, SCALE for quantization across twelve built-in scales, INDEX/SHIFT for ±4 octaves of transposition.

6. **The Recorder** — Splices vs. loops, REC and OVERDUB, the START/END loop window, TRAVEL as LFO modulation of loop points, SCROLL between splices, BLEND and SPEED, and the two routing modes.

By the end of the series, you'll have a working understanding of every knob and pad on Etches and how to combine them into musical gestures and full pieces.

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ETCHES | Soundscape Palette by Puremagnetik

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"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 and choose from twelve 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.

Etches Features:
• Four articulation pads that control contour, timbre-shaping and animation
• Musical overdrive with soft clipping
• 80-second multi-splice recorder for capturing ideas and layering sounds
• Stereo space processor with tape-style delay and a pristine reverb.
• Stereo output
• Runs on a standard Boss-style 9V power supply"

You can find a link to the manual and addtional details at Puremagnetik