mannequins-w-2

Mannequins W/2

Tape machine, delay, and FM synth - three instruments in 2HP

2 HP Eurorack module

W/2 is the second edition of the Mannequins w/ module: a 2HP voice that runs one of three engines, selected from the built-in Launcher. W/Tape is an open-reel-style tape machine with three hours of tape tied into one continuous loop, built for sound-on-sound layering, dynamic loop markers, variable-speed and reverse playback, and adjustable erase strength from gently decaying overdubs to full overwrite. W/Del is a flexible delay line - up to 4 seconds at full quality or around a minute with degraded time stretching, and down to 1ms for chorus, flange, and Karplus-Strong plucks - with a lowpass filter in the feedback path, modulation, freeze, tap tempo, and zoom-based buffer manipulation. W/Syn hides four 2-op FM voices behind a vactrol-style lowpass gate, played with a single gate and 1V/oct pitch. THIS and THAT are assignable CV inputs, and the module can be remote-controlled over the II bus from crow or teletype.

Features

  • Three engines in one 2HP module: W/Tape looper, W/Del delay, W/Syn FM synth
  • Three hours of sound-on-sound tape tied into one continuous loop
  • Dynamic loop markers with clock-quantized looping and 2x or half loop resizing
  • Variable-speed playback with through-zero reverse and 1V/oct exponential speed control
  • Adjustable erase strength from gently decaying overdubs to full overwrite, plus echo mode
  • W/Del: 1ms to 4s delay (up to about a minute time-stretched) with feedback filter, modulation, freeze, and tap tempo
  • W/Syn: four 2-op FM voices through a vactrol-style lowpass gate with output compressor
  • THIS and THAT assignable CV inputs with per-engine destinations
  • Remote control over the II bus from crow or teletype
  • Launcher with per-engine preset save and recall

Controls & Jacks (7)

  • Loop
  • Play
  • Record
  • THIS
  • THAT
  • IN
  • OUT

How-To Guides

  • Sound-on-Sound Loop Sketch
  • CV Tape-Speed Bends
  • Clock-Quantized Looping

Explore the interactive W/2 panel on BleepDex — tap any control to learn what it does.

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