Bastl Instruments and Casper Electronics Dark Matter

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Key Features

  • High energy sound processor for Eurorack
  • Excite your audio signals via four flavours of CV overdrive and feedback
  • Quickly add sub frequencies and overtones to your bass and leads
  • Add ducking and gating effects to your music to give it more movement
  • Discover a truly powerful Eurorack module that will change your whole workflow

Bastl Instruments and Casper Electronics Dark Matter Overview

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Feedback everything. Add tonnes of flavour to your Eurorack. The Bastl Instruments and Casper Electronics Dark Matter is a useful and incredibly fun Eurorack module from the Czech manufacturers. At only 13hp in size, this relatively small module packs a huge punch. Using the Dark Matter you can explore the complex behaviours of amp circuits and push them to their limits. With four flavours of voltage controlled overdrive, there is a lot of sonic possibility inside the Dark Matter, and when added to your workflow, Dark Matter can give you a whole new range of colourful manipulation to your sound design.



Product Ref: 131598

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Push the Limits

Dark Matter offers up a serious amount of sonic possibility for your Eurorack. It works by exciting the audio in your signal flow to provide a fresh take on your sounds. The signals can be antagonised to their breaking point, it's perfect for adding a touch of distortion and overdrive to your basses or leads, or just for crushing a signal down for experimental jams. The feedbacks can be fed back into each other. Over and over, and it can all be CV controlled to give your output dynamism.

Big Beats

Using the Dark Matter on your percussion section can add impactful overdrives to your kicks and snares. Turbocharging your drums is perfect for adding aggression to your drums. Tweak the sound of your drums further using the crunchy 2 band EQ. When using Dark Matter on bass lines, you can add ducking effects to the signal to give them EDM friendly dynamism.

Control Everything

The Dark Matter is entirely CV controllable. You can add dynamism to any of the parameters found on the front panel of the Dark Matter. Because of this, you have lots of patching options and means Dark Matter has a very playable design. It's great for live and because of its versatility, you'll want to use it in every patch.

Features

  • Excite audio signals to the breaking point with 4 flavours of voltage controlled overdrive
  • Turbo charge percussive hits and drum beats
  • Add sub-octave tones and timbrel richness to melodies and bass lines
  • Tweak your tone with a crunchy overdriving 2 band EQ
  • Add signal ducking and gating effects with the built in envelope follower
  • Go the feedback way and create meandering loops through your rack using the 10 I/O jacks
  • Drive
    • Input VCA with gain and soft clipping
    • Hyper drive switch for extra punch
  • Tone
    • 2 band equaliser
    • Voltage controlled bass and treble boost/overdrive
  • Dynamics
    • Envelopes generated by INPUT signal
    • Outputs 0-5V. Normalised to FBK CV and X-FADE CV inputs
    • Low and High decay time switch
    • Input pre or post DRIVE switch
    • Envelope monitor LED
  • Feedback
    • Voltage controlled feedback
    • High frequency “warning” LED
    • External feedback loop section
    • FBK OUT and FBK IN jacks
    • Output phase switch
    • FBK VCA in/out switch
  • Crossfader
    • Voltage controlled crossfade between input and feedback
    • Input pre/post drive crossfade switch
    • Dynamics envelope normalized to mix CV input

Specifications

  • 13 HP
  • PTC fuse and diode protected 10-pin power connector
  • 24 mm deep
  • Power consumption +12V: < 75mA; -12V: <75 mA