"It's my absolutely pleasure to introduce you to DivSkip! An 8 mode, trigger conditioning workhorse for playability, musicality and utility.
DivSkip is a 4 channel trigger and gate processor with multiple modes, dual outputs per channel, performance mute groups and alternate gate mode. Plug in triggers or gates from a clock, logic module or sequencer and generate new rhythms and variations.
DivSkip has 8 modes including Bernoulli Gates, Clock Division, Turing, Euclidean Split, Euclidean Classic, Ramp / Gate Length, Retrigger and Pattern. All provided musical performative rhythms for your modular system.
FEATURES • 4 Channels of Triggers or Gates • push-to-mute • 8 modes per Channel • LED rings for visualization
"DivSkip is a four channel trigger / gate processor for Eurorack. Eight modes on four independent channels make this 8HP module a Swiss Army Knife to chain behind clock utilities, trigger sequencers, and logic modules. Each channel can be muted and unmuted with a click of the push potentiometer.
In this patch, Enrica is using Bernoulli mode, adding weighted probability to a swung pattern generated with Stolperbeats. An incoming sixteenth note trigger is randomly sent to either Out A or B, with the position of the potentiometer determining whether an open or closed hihat is more likely to play. This allows her to generate lively rhythmic variation on the fly.
For the cymbal sound, the same mode is patched to set whether the sound is likely to play or not. A simple trigger on the upbeats is transformed into a burst and sent to the Snare module, using #DivSkip in Retrigger mode on channel 4.
All drum sounds are played with @patchingpanda's line of drum modules, with BD-Z on Kick, Hatz on Hihats, Punch and Shuby on Snare and NVHS on cymbals. The chords are played on the @WeAreElektron modelcycles, with all voices set to the same mode."
"Here we have one of 350 EMS Synthi Hi-Fli multi-effects boxes; this one showed up with a very loud buzz and, after figuring that out, no audible suboctave. It is now working perfectly and oh so much fun to play with, as you can tell by the look on Dan's face in this video and thumbnail.
We also made use of Brandt's TC Electronic 2290 Dynamic Digital Delay, which are amazing for adding depth and width to any signal."
"For this song 'DancingSequencer', the synthesizers used were iceGear Instruments Lagrange, Lorentz, and Laplace.
The sequencer used was the KAWAI Q80.
Effector is Roland SDE-2000."
"A kick drum lays down the foundation of your track, the root of your beat. You need the low end to create a pumping motion and the high end to cut through the mix. All this while maintaining spectral room for other sounds. So it can be quite an undertaking to get right.
Which is why we developed Mandrake. A kick drum synthesizer that targets kick drum sounds for Dance, House and Techno music. Inspired by physical models, DAW drum synthesis and sound mixing techniques. It divides the sound into a 'Hit' and 'Body', with sound shaping possibilities for both sections.
Mandrake is not another 808 or 909 clone; its analog circuitry is entirely built from scratch to create an original sound. Also nothing more than a great kick; ranges to get into detail, and useful kick drum sounds throughout its settings!
FEATURES 'Hit' and 'Body' sections to sculpt the most important parts of a kick drum. Hit-timbre and Hit-volume controls to shape sound of the transient. Body saturation, resonance, decay and damping controls provide a varied sound palette. Clear pitch control section that is carefully scaled to match a kick drum. Two VCA shapes that provide different flavours. Ducking or normal Envelope output to further sculpt and modulate. Accent or VCA CV input switch to match your sequencing method. Clean-up switch to remove rumble and decrease 'boxiness'."
"A year ago we released the Mod FM as a Eurorack module.
Now the almost identical product is being released as a desktop device with its own power supply, MIDI, standard 6.3mm balanced outputs and analog volume control.
The Mod FM D even has an analog side chain stereo input, via which external signals can be fed into the effects of the Mod FM D and mixed with the synth.
The ratio of synth+input/effect can also be continuously adjusted analog using a potentiometer.
The Mod FM D is a complete 8-voice FM synthesizer in desktop format that promises enormously powerful sounds out-of-the-box without sacrificing the usual CV modulation options.
It has 4 operators and 2 LFOs/VCOs per voice. In addition, it has 2 analog filters and analog VCAs per voice, which give the Mod FM D analog depth and warmth, although the FM engine is of course digital.
Each voice has its own CV/Gate inputs and an individual output. There is a stereo mix-out on which the even and odd voices are distributed, and on which internal effects such as delay and reverb can be mixed.
In addition to the CV/Gate control, the Mod FM D has MIDI In and Out and a USB C connection that also processes MIDI.
This allows you to create extremely good and metallic-sounding FM sounds, crisp basses, but also soft and deep-sounding analog sounds and all kinds of crazy stuff without much effort.
In addition, the Mod FM D also offers numerous external CV modulations, for example to modulate each operator individually or to control the FM envelopes.
The Mod FM D is also fully multi-timbral, i.e. each voice can have its own sound in Multi Mode, which is also saved as such in the Multi Set. This brings us to the biggest advantage of the hybrid approach:
Analog and modular can become a trap with complex sounds, and FM is complex per se, because you can never get the same great sound from before exactly the same way. The ability to save helps here.
