Synthetic Sound Labs has introduced Wave Oracle, a multi-function signal visualization and learning instrument designed specifically for modular synthesizers.
Wave Oracle combines oscilloscope, XY, spectrum analysis, tuning, metering, audio-responsive visualization and integrated learning functions in a single module.
Four inputs can remain connected simultaneously, with the display providing different views depending on the selected mode.
The module combines practical signal-analysis tools with educational features designed to help users understand waveforms, frequency, harmonics, filtering and modulation.
Features:
- Seven signal-viewing and learning modes
- Oscilloscope with adjustable timebase
- Adjustable vertical scaling and positioning
- Trigger controls for waveform analysis
- XY display for comparing two signals
- Lissajous figures for exploring signal relationships
- FFT spectrum analysis
- Multiple spectrum-display views
- Frequency and musical-pitch tuner
- Real-time level and dynamic meters
- Audio-responsive ART visualizations
- Interactive LEARN lessons
- Four independent signal inputs
- 320 × 240 full-color touchscreen TFT display
- Touchscreen hold/freeze function
- Five push buttons and rotary/push encoder
- User settings retained after power-down
- Standard Synthesizers.com/Dotcom 2MU format
- Supports typical modular audio and control-voltage signals
Pricing & Availability:
The Wave Oracle Model 1910 is available now for $489 USD.
I got one last week and it is fabulous!!!
Mike & amj
Can you share how you’re using Wave Oracle and why you like it so much?
I’m an MU fan, and also have several SSL modules. Looking at this module, though, I’m not sure what it can do for me beyond the ‘eye candy’ of the oscilloscope.
are you a 5U nerd? this is a 5U nerd thing.
MU, not 5U.
How are you using this? Seems a bit like the Eurorack oscilloscope module that everybody was talking about 5 years ago.
Is it just about watching pretty wave shapes? I’ve never seen much value in oscilloscopes, myself. If your ears can’t hear it, it’s not music.
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If you care about module width then there is a slight difference, though the rule (and it isn’t really a rule) is that 5U standard 1.75 inches wide and MU (as subset of the overarching term 5U) is 2.125 inches…. but seriously, who cares right?! That comment besically was a flex., with the underlying subcontious thoughts: “Ha! Stay away plebian! I am above your and your 1.75 inch panels! I sir/ma’am, am an MU user living the life of luxury and I am not afraid to tell you that you are wallowing in 1.75 inch squalour! Clearly my music must be better than yours” 🙂 Meanwhile, I am around$35k into 5U myself…clearly I should be reconsidering my poor choices. 😀
Wayne Car
amj – personal attack deleted.
Keep comments on topic and constructive.
You use it for looking and comparing waveshapes (it has multiple inputs that can be seen on screen simultaneously), for seeing the result of complex modulations and visually compairin them to the carrier and moduation signals, for educational purposes (my involvement with EMEAPP/THe Museum of Music Technology is educationally oriented).
If that is just eye-candy for you, then I’d say you could skip, but if you want to visualize what’s going on (and there is a setting that allows you to watch voltage changes happen over long durations and not just LFO and audio rate speed.) Basically it is a tool for measurement and observability. It’s a toy if you want it to be, and a scientific tool instead, if you want it to be. Your mileage may vary. I find this extremely valuable and, this this is any indication, I likely own one of the first off the assembly line, since the guy behind SSL is a friend.
very cool! Insta buy!