make-noise-mysteron

Make Noise Mysteron

Voltage-controlled dual digital waveguide (Karplus-Strong) voice

14 HP Eurorack module

The Mysteron is a voltage-controlled dual digital waveguide — a Karplus-Strong-style physical-modeling voice that is completely digital yet behaves organically. You excite its two waveguides with gates, set their length (pitch) over ~5 octaves, then sculpt the sound with Generation feedback (from percussive de-generation to sustained re-generation and self-oscillation) and a Mutation section that blends scanned wavetables into the excitation. It can be a melodic quantized voice, a duophonic sample-and-hold instrument, a wavetable oscillator, or a source of otherworldly textures.

Features

  • Voltage-controlled dual digital waveguide (Karplus-Strong) synthesis
  • Excite-based architecture: makes no sound until a waveguide is excited
  • Two normalled Excite gate inputs for monophonic or duophonic operation
  • Generation feedback control: De-Generative (percussive) to Re-Generative (sustained/self-oscillating)
  • Mutation section blends scanned wavetables with noise excitation (Depth + Type)
  • Combo knobs: Impulse and Depth act as attenuators when their CV inputs are patched
  • Quantize Mode for 12-tone chromatic 1V/Oct melodic tracking via Pitch 2
  • Fine Pitch trim (+/- 12%) for tuning to other voices
  • !! gate input for bowed attack or waveguide cross-coupling
  • Multi-purpose Mystery LED indicates mutation, bowed/cross-feedback, and quantize states
  • Impulse usable as a digital VCA when self-oscillating
  • AC-coupled output up to ~10Vpp

Controls & Jacks (22)

  • Pitch
  • Fine Pitch
  • Pitch 1 Attenuverter
  • Impulse
  • Depth
  • Type
  • Type CV Attenuator
  • Generation
  • Generation CV Attenuverter
  • Out
  • Impulse CV In
  • Depth CV In
  • Generation CV In
  • Type CV In
  • Pitch 1 In
  • Pitch 2 In
  • Excite 1
  • Excite 2
  • !! In
  • Mystery LED
  • Excite LED 1
  • Excite LED 2

How-To Guides

  • Digital Hi-Hats
  • Self-Oscillating Wavetable Oscillator
  • Melodic Quantized Voice
  • Duophonic Sample-and-Hold Chords
  • Bowed / Cross-Coupled Textures

Explore the interactive Mysteron panel on BleepDex — tap any control to learn what it does.

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