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Key Features
Product Ref: 138449
The lifeblood of the Blackbox is the fantastic dual analog oscillator. It provides a brilliant starting point for creating amazing sounds. From basses to deep experimentation. With sine, triangle, saw, and square waves ready to start their journey. It's all easy to modulate with FM and hard sync.
Alongside the powerful oscillators is the Low Pass Filter. This filter gives the Blackbox that unmistakable Pittsburgh sound. Both retro and futuristic at the same time - with an overall organic feel. An incredible harmonic character underlines a unique sound design experience.
Easily connect any MIDI compatible gear to the Blackbox. The MIDI to CV converter allows you to convert MIDI signals to control voltage without external hardware. Simply plug it in and take control. You can control multiple parameters within the Voltage Lab and you can even play arpeggios. The arpeggiator can be clocked using the internal tap tempo, external midi clock, or external gate signal.
Control voltage generator across the centre of the unit enables you to control multiple different aspects of your sound. It is possible to control attack/decay, LFO, slew, envelope followers, and much more. Sustain adds a stage between rise and fall. You can use the Trigger mode to create a gate to trigger the envelope circuit. You can set the response curve of the function generator from logarithmic to linear to exponential. This gives you amazing control over how the CV interacts with its input.
Part of the design philosophy behind this instrument is its position in the natural world. And what place an entirely synthetic construct takes within it. In order to capture this through the power of synthesis, there are multiple types of random voltage. The random CV output utilizes a six stage shift register to generate evolving random CV patterns. These sources of random give your synthesizer a life of its own. Voltage Lab sounds like nothing else and with this method of sequencing, you obtain a more organic approach to composition.
Using bucket brigade analog delay, this voltage controlled effect can give your overall sound a totally new space. A bucket brigade delay works by shifting the audio signal through a series of capacitors to delay playback. The Voltage Lab uses 8,192 stages to give you 0.3 seconds of delay.
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