Clatters Machines

Notes: The Pocket Garden Listener is a portable random control messages generator from biometric signals and it's meant to be the compact and desktop version of our Garden Listener eurorack module.

It detects conductivity variations on living beings' surface and transforms them into MIDI notes, ranging from C-1 to C8, and CV signals (0 - 5V).

Its behaviour can be tamed through the one-knob menu from which you can choose and modify:
probes' sensitivity (making it more or less sensitive to current variations)
scale (chromatic, major, minor, Indian and Arabic)
MIDI channel (1 - 16)
LEDs' brightness
USB powered

MIDI data are simultaneously transferred:
via USB, to control DAW plugins and sequences
via TRS, to control any other gear with a MIDI port

Equipped with Trigger, Gate and Control Voltage to control modular and semi-modular gear.

Conductivity variations are detected by the Probes Input and converted into MIDI notes in real time according to the Main menu settings. Each MIDI note exits through the MIDI output and the USB, allowing you to take advantage of the sound of either any synthesizer equipped with a MIDI port or any VST in your DAW, and gets converted into an analogue signal.

Trigger and Gate are fired every time a new note is generated (5V).

All the MIDI notes are converted into variable voltages (0 - 5V) depending on their pitch and exit through the CV output (1V/oct).

The Pocket Garden Listener comes with:
3.5mm white probes
1 set of snap-on adhesive reusable electrode pads
A MIDI-TRS type A adapter for the MIDI output (1m long)
A USB cable (micro type B to type A)
A small Torx-7 key for further calibration
The Pocket Garden Listener comes already calibrated for a proper 1V/oct output.

Notes: Sibilla is a DSP digital stereo oscillator that aims to translate into music the beauty and harshness of a semi-barren mountain. Its sound is sculpted by various saw and sine waves running through intricate delay networks, altered by LFOs, white noises and creating constructive and destructive interferences.

Both stereo channels are the output stages of two feedback audio loops.

Each loop is made up by a main sub sinusoidal wave oscillator and two saw and sine waves with frequencies affected by the generation of harmonics (right channel) and subharmonics (left channel). All waves have different phases whose offset is constantly affected by minor variations created by two pairs of grains randomly fluctuating within the waves amplitude spectrum and being sampled at a certain speed.

Waves then meet to each other to a common point, together with two white noise sources, creating constructive and destructive interferences constantly affected by two LFOs movements.

Interferences are then run into a resonant low pass filter and then distributed to four different delay lines from which they are fed back into the audio loops at different time intervals depending on the grain's movements.

Width: 10HP
Max depth: 29.6mm
Current draw: +12V: 125mA, -12V: 30mA, +5V: 0mA;
Material: 2mm anodised brushed aluminium