Sonoclast Heartbeat: a Eurorack module built around an arcade button
MATRIXSYNTH shows a demo video of the Sonoclast Heartbeat, formerly called Pulse. The name changed because there are so many other things called Pulse in the synth and Eurorack world.
The idea is simple and fun: the module is designed around a high quality arcade button. You can use the button to finger drum or to program a rhythmic loop. Then you use the Duration CV, voltages that correspond to the durations between beats, to modulate parameters in other modules according to that rhythm. So a drum pattern you tap by hand can also move a filter or an envelope.
Details from the description: it records and plays back a rhythmic gate loop of up to 250 gates at a resolution of 10 microseconds. The tempo of the loop can be set from half as fast to twice as fast. You can mute the loop and play the button as a live gate source. The module is 6 HP wide and 30 mm deep, needs 60 mA on the +12 V rail and 30 mA on the -12 V rail, and is powered with a standard 10-pin cable.
The demo from Sonoclast Music starts with some finger drumming, and the funky feel makes it clear what the module is for.
I like modules that bring a physical, human gesture into a patch. A loop of your own timing mistakes, turned into stepped CV, can give a patch a feeling that a clock divider cannot.
Source: MATRIXSYNTH
The idea is simple and fun: the module is designed around a high quality arcade button. You can use the button to finger drum or to program a rhythmic loop. Then you use the Duration CV, voltages that correspond to the durations between beats, to modulate parameters in other modules according to that rhythm. So a drum pattern you tap by hand can also move a filter or an envelope.
Details from the description: it records and plays back a rhythmic gate loop of up to 250 gates at a resolution of 10 microseconds. The tempo of the loop can be set from half as fast to twice as fast. You can mute the loop and play the button as a live gate source. The module is 6 HP wide and 30 mm deep, needs 60 mA on the +12 V rail and 30 mA on the -12 V rail, and is powered with a standard 10-pin cable.
The demo from Sonoclast Music starts with some finger drumming, and the funky feel makes it clear what the module is for.
I like modules that bring a physical, human gesture into a patch. A loop of your own timing mistakes, turned into stepped CV, can give a patch a feeling that a clock divider cannot.
Source: MATRIXSYNTH
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