A CV-controlled overdrive circuit capable of wavefolding. A clean 12dB/octave multimode filter self-oscillating cleanly across the audio range. Times two. And this could have stopped here. FOR ALL THE IN-BETWEENS… What sets Blades apart is that options commonly presented as multiple choices (low-pass or high-pass? serial or parallel?) are presented here as a continuum, ready to be explored at the twist of a knob or with a CV. The filter response is continuously variable between low-pass, band-pass and high-pass, and delivers intermediate shelving responses, for more nuanced spectral coloring. A dual crossfader circuit allows the routing between the two filters to smoothly vary from single to parallel to series. AND MORE… Originally thought as a complex filter, Blades turns out to be capable of much more: A dual distortion with spectral color control? An oscillator mixer with crossfading, wavefolding, and enough filtering to clean up the mess? A voice, using one filter as an oscillator, then distorting, folding it and filtering it with the second filter? A complex oscillator capable of FM, PM and AM? 18HP 25mm +12V:150mA / -12V:140mA An essential overdrive circuit A CV-controlled overdrive stage precedes each of the two filters. Overdrive response continuously adjustable between soft-clipping and 2-stage wavefolding. Two rich multimode filters Clean 2-pole (12dB/octave) state-variable design. CV-controlled filter response, continuously variable between low-pass, band-pass and high-pass. CV inputs with attenuverters for cutoff and resonance. Unattenuated frequency CV input, calibrated for 1V/Oct tracking. Clean self-oscillation across the audio range, extending into very low frequencies, with constant amplitude. Modulating the filter response is akin to modulating the phase of the self-oscillation tone. Unique routing possibilities Continuously variable (and CV-controlled) routing from single to parallel to series. With a signal patched into filter 2’s audio input, the routing knob and CV act as a crossfader. Filter 2’s cutoff can be set relatively to filter 1’s cutoff. Specifications Fully analog, based on the V2164 quad VCA chip. Frequency knob range: 8Hz to 18kHz. Audio input impedance: 30k. DC-coupled audio inputs. Filter mode CV input impedance: 50k. Other CV inputs impedance: 100k. All CV inputs handle audio-rate modulations. There is no mention of stereo on this page, ykinmkbykiok. NEED TO KNOW MORE? MANUAL
