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Notes: Fingered Control Voltage Generator, CV-enabled Motion Recorder, Voltage Wiggler.

The LS1 is a capacitive technology slider that will generate CV and GATE signals along with the movement of your finger on its surface.

LIVE Mode

Each time your fingers touches the slider surface a voltage is sent out the CV jack and the relevant GATE signal is also put out. Pair this with a quantizer and, you know..... The LEDs on the side of the slider will light up as the voltage output changes.

HOLD Mode

Without having your finger on the slider, press the rec/mode capacitive buttton. The rec/mode LED will light solid. Same as above but the CV value is held when you whitdraw your finger. Instant control surface for VCFs, VCAs and any other CV controllable stuff in your modular! Tap on the rec/mode again to back up to LIVE mode! The LEDs on the side of the slider will light up as the voltage output changes.

REC Mode

When you have your finger (steady or moving)already on the slider, by pressing the rec/mode capacitive button you START recording the movements on the slider. When you stop pressing the button (or you exceeds 8 seconds) the output will start 'playing' in loop what you recorded. The LED on the rec/mode button will blink fast during the recording and slower during the playback phase. If you operate again on the slider the output will be overridden with you physical intervention but the 'timing' won't be lost. To end the PLAY phase just tap on the rec/mode button again. The LEDs on the side of the slider will light up as the voltage output changes.

OPTIONS:

For each of those modes you can choose (via jumpers on the back) the CV range (0-5V or 0-10V), the orientation of the module (upside down anyone???? you possibly would like to choose where your jacks are!!!), the mode of RECORDING, internal or external (the GATE output in this case doubles as a REC button trigger, permitting you to 'sync' with some cosmic rhythm...). When the LS1 is in External GATE mode (set by the jumper on the back), regardless of whatever state you are (obviously either LIVE and HOLD will not act on the GATE signal!) the module will record the finger position as long as the GATE input is HIGH (max 5V) and will loop the recorded values as soon as the GATE became LOW again. If GATE lenght exceeds the maximum available time, the loop phase starts automatically.

Notes: Expansion kit for the NS1 Nanosynth, allows you to experiment with hacking the basic setup and creating your own synth circuits. Hook up the breadboard and build the example circuits to get started.

Supplier's Notes:

Breadboard, electronic components and wirings to add functions to your NS1, hacker style! (sequencers, filters, drum, etc...). Includes 10 circuit sheets to start from!

NS1nanosynth Experimenter's kit is a joyful bag of components especially suited to build electronic musical circuits! With the aid of a breadboard and hundreds of electronic components you can build your own sequencers, vactrols, envelope generator, drone oscillator, filters and gate processors!

Notes: Performance sampling and simple looping crammed into a compact 4hp module. Great for real-time tweaking and resampling of other modules, or distinctive beat repeat effects.

Supplier's Notes:

A small, gritty, fun performance sampler and looper.

At 4hp it's the new 'utility' module!

Here is a diminitive 4hp module that could bring you lots of fun and creative momentum. A simple sampler and looper that behave well with your modular and give back to you a lo-fi sampling experience!

Both Manual and CV/trigger modes are possible. You can control the sample and playback frequency, trigger the recording or the playback and and there's also a 'beatrepeat' mode.