Classic stand-up arcade games. The joystick. The buttons. The feel of the stick, the clack of the buttons. Fond memories… How to integrate that feeling with my synthesizer… Now, direct your synthesizer like your favorite video game.

ARCADE is a control voltage controller. Three channels of buttons, each with a pot to adjust the positive or negative voltage release. Press the button to trigger EGs, drum modules, sequencer start/stop, or hit it rapidly while twisting the knob to create real time sample and hold type patterns. Not enough? Pull the knob and switch to “always on” mode. Use ARCADE as a remote control for your favorite CV parameters, slowly open and close that LPF, or use it to mix volume levels with three VCAs. Want more? X and Y axis joystick with positive and negative voltage output. Send the two axis to the pitch of two VCOs and create some FM madness. Have X control a VCO and Y a VCA and use the joystick like a Theremin. And? Two additional switches assign the X and Y axis to channels 2 and 3, allowing you to trigger the voltage from the joystick with those channel’s buttons, without losing the outputs of the voltage settings in those channels! And wait, there’s more… A voltage switch allows you to choose the level of resolution from 10vpp to 5vpp (to 2.5vpp on ARCADE 5U).

Available in both a 5U and table top version, ARCADE TT has both ¼” and 1/8” outputs for integrating into  both your euro and 5U modulars. ARCADE can even control modern and vintage keyboard synthesizer and effects pedals! It also can run on a 9V battery so you can wield it live on stage!

Please contact us for custom output configurations.

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How many times have you wished you could run a modular VCO through your Maestro Phase Shifter – you know, the one JPJ used in Song Remains the Same? Or through that original Uni-Vibe that you paid way too much for on eBay? What if you just want to drive your signal a little with that Distortion+ or TS-808? Unfortunately, there is a fundamental difference in impedance and signal levels for this to work effectively. There are several solutions to this dilemma, but nothing as dense as this:

The 4X instrument interface provides FOUR discreet channels in one 5U modular space. Each channel has an attenuator for bringing a modular signal level to instrument level and then a 100x gain stage for bringing the instrument level back to modular level, and beyond… sweet.

Route your modular through four of your favorite vintage pedals at once… patch into two separate stereo effects processors… heck, run a signal through ALL FOUR of the makeup gain stages at 100x and see what happens…

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MOTM 300 VCO in to 4X out to vintage Maestro Phaser back into the 4X and then out to an amplifier. MOTM 300 VCO shown first with just attenuation. Then out from the 4x into a Maestro Phaser pedal and back into the 4x with various levels of make-up gain.

A staple of modular synthesizers from the very beginning, the attenuator is perhaps equal parts boring and essential. It is used for a variety of purposes, from controlling cv amount, LFO depth, and even audio amplitude. The 5X offers you five such signal modifiers in a single 5U modular space, more than any other attenuator on the market. The 5X is available in three configurations:

STANDARD
Pull switch pots that toggle between attenuation and “kill”, effectively cutting the passing signal, whatever it may be. Bypass modulation of your filter cutoff or mute audio with the pull of the switch.]

DELUXE
Each channel features a three way switch that selects bypass, “kill,” or attenuate.

LOG/LIN
Pull switch pots that toggle between a linear and logarithmic response curve. A “Swiss army knife” of attenuation for your modular system.

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New England has long been a center for synthesizer manufacturing. The Aries 300, EML 101, Kurzweil K250, NED Synclavier, and of course Alan Pearlman’s ARP 2600 were all made here. It is the latter’s heritage that we’ve focused on. What better place to build a tribute to the legendary 2600’s VCF than analog craftsman’s HQ, only miles from where the originals were produced.

The ac2600 VCF is part of our Special Edition filter line, seeking to bring large format modular synthesists some of the great circuits of yore in both sound AND appearance. No knobs here… this filter has long throw sliders just like the real thing. Two audio inputs and two cv inputs with attenuation for lots of flexibility and control. The ac2600 VCF also easily self oscillates to become its own sine wave oscillator, with fine tuning and pitch control by voltage.

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MS VCO as source. MOTM 380 modulates PWM, MOTM101 S/H into “Control 1″ of ac2600, MOTM380 triangle wave into “Control 2″ of ac2600.

3-channel mixer with Burr Brown opamp at final output stage. Features independent headphone amp with level, 1⁄4” output with mute switch, and Cinemag transformer balanced XLR output.

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Combination difference rectifier and neural computing circuit by Nonlinear Circuits. Great for randomizing boring cv input signals.

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