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monome earthsea
price : $320.00
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earthsea is a platform for playing, looping, and manipulating control-voltage gestures, which may take the form of melodies and timbral transformations.
a monome grid is plugged into the front panel of the module, serving as a complete interface. looped patterns continue to run when the grid is disconnected, facilitating hot-swap connection to other
monome-enabled modules during performance.
built upon a map of tones, the grid becomes a playing surface for melodies. the edge output provides various gating modes including a fixed interval and drone mode.
multi-press gestures invoke shape-memories. three channels of cv memory are set by turning panel knobs per shape. instantly recall cv sets with different shapes, or glide between them with independent slew per
channel and shape.
patterns of notes and shapes can be recorded into a bank of sixteen slots. gate, retrigger or loop playback while performing additonal notes or shapes atop. recall previous patterns from the bank, or perform the
bank directly. patterns can also be performed across the keymap with arpeggiate mode, shifting the root note and retriggering the pattern.
shape-memories and all recorded patterns are storable to internal flash memory for instant recall on power-up. eight full presets can be stored and dynamically loaded.
additional magic shapes for pattern modulations make this instrument profoundly versatile.
requirements:
monome 128 grid controller (see note below)
format: eurorack
width: 6hp
depth: 40mm ("skiff friendly")
power: 12v: 18ma, -12v: 17ma, 5v: 42ma (grid unconnected), up to 600ma (grid connected)
there have been many editions of monome grids over the years. *earthsea* is optimally designed for late 128 models that support variable brightness (2012 and on). smaller grids are *not* supported. larger grids
are supported, but presently the bottom half will not be used. mono-brightness grids are supported, but the data displayed will be less rich.
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