Serge Modular

Bartlebooth discovers one of the undocumented risks of Serge Modular synthesizers.

See the full image at Quadslope.com, where you can also find info on Serge modules, peripherals, patches, tutorials and more.

Serge has introduced a new Serge M-odule, the Dual ‘Q’ Filter M-odule.

Price is 1600 USD

Here are the details, via Bakis Sirros:

It contains the following modules (from Left to Right):

AC-coupled 3-channel audio mixer, Variable Q VCF, Variable Q VCF, Dual VCA (one vca is AC-coupled the other vca is DC-coupled), and a Mix Processor (DC-coupled).

with that M-odule, you can create various filtering slopes (12db and even 24db, with a patch described in detail here):  http://www.serge-fans.com/wiz_filt.htm ) and also, of course, you get various filter responses (BP, LP, HP, Notch).

the VCFQ module has a slope of 12db/oct.

the filters can be patched to self-oscillate and they have a trigger In socket, for exciting them to produce various percussive sounds.

By exciting the resonant filters in ‘Lo’ mode, you can use them as interesting modulation sources.

by combining them in parallel, you can get a twin Q peak also. or, by connecting them in series, you can get a BP filter with variable bandwidth and twin Q peaks also, etc…

also you get two vca’s for your audio, AM, and inter-patch modulation index needs, plus a mix processor for scaling, mixing and inverting cv’s.

If you’ve used the Serge Dual ‘Q’ Filter M-odule, leave a comment with your thoughts.

Serge Modular has introduced the ASR Quantizer’ (ASR/QUAN) M-odule.

Details below.

If you’ve used the Serge ASR Quantizer, leave a comment with your thoughts!

via Bakis Sirros:

it contains (from left to Right): VC Timegen Clock, Divide by N Comparator, 3 step Analogue Shift Register (x2), 6 channels Quantizer.

this is a great module for sequencing aplications, and not only:

it can generate arabesque melodies with its two ASR’s that can be chained to form a single 6 channel ASR), using 3 VCO’s. or you could use the ASR’s, clocked at audio rate, as a weird wave processor….

you can further quantize various sequencer channels with the Quantizer, or quantize the outputs of the ASR’s…

with the ‘Divide by N Comp’ you get a comparator, a clock divider up to /31 (with odd and even clock divisions), an audio wave divider to create subharmonics, a staircase wave generator with N steps, (all these with the N defined manually or via VC) a tool to create sharp clocking pulses, etc…

the Quantizer features six channels of quantizing plus two toggle switches, in addition to its gate input jacks, for selection of intervallic step variants (manualy or via VC).

and, of course, the ‘VC Timegen Clock’ that can act as vc lag, vc AD, vc LFO, lowpass VCF, vc-clock source, audio divider, envelope follower, etc…

put all these together for countless more applications….

ASR/QUAN price: 1700 USD.

Serge has released an new synth module -  the Stereo Mixer M-odule.

Features:

• Quadrature Oscillator module
• Dual Transient Generator module
• Dual VCA (ac-coupled) and
• Dual Channel Stereo Mixer module (with level and panning voltage controlled)

Synthesist Bakis Sirros notes:

With this M-odule, the user is presented with a bank of six VCA’s (two in the stereo mixer module, two in the Dual VCA, two hardwired in the two outs of the Quad Osc) and two transient generators plus a quadrature sinewave Osc.

so, he has plenty of cv sources to use for modulating volume (or AM synthesis) and for modulating Pan Position, etc…

the Quad Osc goes into well into Audio range, so it can be used as Audio source as well.

Price is 1700 USD.

If you’ve used the Serge Stereo Mixer M-odule, leave a comment with your thoughts!

This is a demo of a few patches on a one-panel Serge modular synth with 2 M-odules: “Seq-A” and the “Creature”.

via Felix Inferious