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Noise Engineering Lacrima Versio

The devil's autowah with filter, distortion, and chorus

10 HP Eurorack module

Lacrima Versio is an autowah effect module featuring an envelope follower that drives a high-resonance state-variable filter, morphable between lowpass, bandpass, and highpass. It combines adjustable distortion placeable pre, between, or post filter stages with a stereo chorus and audio-rate modulation including octavizing, making it far more versatile than a classic wah. Its distinctive character ranges from smooth talking-filter wah sounds to self-oscillating percussive pings, saturated growls, and wide chorused tones.

Features

  • Envelope follower with bipolar send amount for classic and reverse wah effects
  • State-variable filter morphable between lowpass, bandpass, and highpass
  • High resonance capable of self-oscillation
  • Adjustable distortion/saturation placeable pre, between, or post filter stages
  • Stereo chorus with two speed options
  • Audio-rate modulation with octavizing effect in top third of Mod knob
  • Manual envelope follower trigger via Hit button and gate input
  • Dry/wet Blend control (does not affect chorus amount)
  • CV inputs for Freq, Q, Env, and Mod
  • Gate input for Hit (responds above 2V)
  • Stereo in and out
  • Part of the Versio platform — firmware swappable

Controls & Jacks (24)

  • Q— Sets the amount of filter resonance.
  • Freq— Sets the base frequency of the filter.
  • L/B/H— Smoothly morphs and blends the filter from lowpass to bandpass to highpass.
  • Blend— Dry/wet balance control. Fully left passes unmodified input. Fully right passes only processed signal. Chorus amount is not affected by blen
  • Env— Bipolar envelope-follower send amount. Extracts envelope from incoming signal dynamics and routes to filter cutoff. At 12:00, no envelope ef
  • Out L— Left audio output channel.
  • In
  • Mod— Introduces audio-rate modulation and octavizing effect in the top third of the knob range.
  • Freq CV— Control voltage input for filter frequency. Expects 0V to 5V. Pot acts as offset and sums with input CV.
  • Hit— Triggers the envelope follower manually.
  • Sat— Saturation amount control for distortion.
  • Q CV— Control voltage input for filter resonance. Expects 0V to 5V. Pot acts as offset and sums with input CV.
  • Env CV— Control voltage input for envelope follower send amount. Expects 0V to 5V. Pot acts as offset and sums with input CV.
  • Hit Gate— Gate input to trigger the envelope follower manually. Responds to signals above 2V.
  • Out R— Right audio output channel.
  • Mod CV— Control voltage input for modulation amount. Expects 0V to 5V. Pot acts as offset and sums with input CV.
  • In L— Left audio input channel.
  • In R 1— Right audio input channel.
  • In R 2— Right audio input channel.
  • Sat— Saturation amount control for distortion.
  • Pre/Bet/Aft— Changes where the saturation stage is placed in the signal chain. Pre: at input, Bet: between filters, Aft: after filters.
  • L/B/H— Smoothly morphs and blends the filter from lowpass to bandpass to highpass.
  • Out
  • 0/I/II— Activates chorus. 0 is off, I is slow chorus, II is faster chorus. Chorus amount is not affected by Blend.

How-To Guides

  • Swap Firmware on Versio Platform
  • Classic Autowah Wah
  • Reverse Wah
  • Self-Oscillating Percussive Pings
  • Octave-Up Fuzz
  • Stereo Chorus Filter Sweep
  • CV-Controlled Filter Sweep
  • Aggressive Pre-Distortion Wah
  • Manual Hit Accent Performance
  • Subtle Warmth and Presence

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

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