Quadrature Sine (2020)

[BugBrand]

Just about to be released (price likely similar to CVCO - EDIT - £180).
Similar to the old SYN2B but with Tune/Fine instead of the 10-turn dial.

Only two outputs Sin (0deg) and Cosine (90deg) as most CV inputs can easily invert for the 180/270 phases.

FM is either Linear (AC coupled) or Expontential (which has +ve or -ve polarity switching)

Yes, Freq-Shift is slightly in mind, though no renewed investigations as yet - there is a header on the back which should link to a future expander for this.

Waiting to calibrate the first batch..

QSine.jpg

[Kafgee]

[chrisdermo]

Just about to be released (price likely similar to CVCO).
Similar to the old SYN2B but with Tune/Fine instead of the 10-turn dial.

Only two outputs Sin (0deg) and Cosine (90deg) as most CV inputs can easily invert for the 180/270 phases.

FM is either Linear (AC coupled) or Expontential (which has +ve or -ve polarity switching)

Yes, Freq-Shift is slightly in mind, though no renewed investigations as yet - there is a header on the back which should link to a future expander for this.

Waiting to calibrate the first batch..

QSine.jpg

Hot stuff.
When you switch to sub does it take a while to get going like the old SYN2B?

[lud]

definitely want one or two of these in my life! Nice array of switch options
Great start to the year for BB blues, been rearranging my modular set up quite a lot to make room and money for new offerings - continue bringing more joy to the world Tom!

[lud]

+ 1000000 for the freq shift expander!

[T. Jervell]

Beautiful
I guess I’m gonna need one of those

[deltaphoenix]

So many awesome modules coming. So excited Tom!

[gnome666]

when can we start peppering you with purchase requests?

[BugBrand]

When you switch to sub does it take a while to get going like the old SYN2B?

Yes, that's standard - oscillations build up quickly at the top of the LFO range, so best to give a quick push (eg. with +10V to V/Oct input) when first powered on. Once oscillating normally, you can switch between ranges no problem.

[Kafgee]

[Delepathy]

YES!

[mIgmOd]

Hi all. I can appreciate, conceptually, why it would be good to have sine waves 90° out of phase from each other, but I'm not sure I understand how to best use them in a patch. Could anyone give some basic examples? Or perhaps I'm overthinking this and it's just always good to have sine waves available. Thanks!

[bitSmasher]

So you can draw circles on an oscilloscope
That's my appeal, anyway...

[mIgmOd]

Ah, of course! I knew I was overthinking it.

[BananaPlug]

The 90 degree thing is nice for LFOs. One output is just starting to reverse direction (up/down) when the other is more rapidly crossing zero. So imagine one is panning your signal and the other is working a filter or wavefolder for that signal. The coordination of those effects makes them seem less like arbitrary decorations.

[BugBrand]

So you can draw circles on an oscilloscope
That's my appeal, anyway...

Or laser.. I'd forgotten that we had a quick play around that at EMS in Stockholm some years back.


Yes, agreed, quadrature phases feel most useful for me as LF modulators - though also one trick for the Linear FM is to feed one wave back to self-modulate - generates a near saw with one wave and pulsey-sine (pic needed!) on the other.

[rico loverde]

so much good stuff from Tom!!! Ugh Im so broke right now!!!!! Need to start selling off some stuff as the bug stuff makes me the happiest.

[mIgmOd]

Great ideas, guys; thanks! Got my brain pointed in the right direction. Now I just need to to get one!

[Jd1979]

This is wonderful!!

[GryphonP3]

If you make a new shifter please make it compatible with the old quadrature of possible

[GryphonP3]

Hi all. I can appreciate, conceptually, why it would be good to have sine waves 90° out of phase from each other, but I'm not sure I understand how to best use them in a patch. Could anyone give some basic examples? Or perhaps I'm overthinking this and it's just always good to have sine waves available. Thanks!

As just discovered in another thread from a hordijk lecture, you can feed the cosine output back into the linear FM input for waveshaping from sine to saw passing through all harmonic series en route.

[Tajnost]

+1 if possible, please make the expander be compatible with the old design! It would be amazing!

[BugBrand]

I just checked the files and pretty sure there wasn't a 2pin output header (sin/cos) on the original - perfectly possible to hook up wires to the output sockets though

[tIB]

I've been hammering my pair of originals this last week along with the Freq shifters - great modules!