After Later Audio Typhoon
Eight-mode granular Swiss army knife for audio mangling
16 HP Eurorack module
Typhoon is a Eurorack module by After Later Audio running the Superparasites firmware, a port of Mutable Instruments Clouds with additional alternate modes. It is a granular audio processor, pitch shifter, looping delay, spectral processor, reverb, resonator, beat repeater, and spectral filter all in one, capable of radically transforming audio sources into lush textures, rhythmic stutter effects, shimmering reverbs, and spectral soundscapes.
Features
- Eight distinct processing modes selectable via LED mode switching
- Granular synthesis with up to 40-60 concurrent grains
- Pitch shifting using period-synchronized overlapping grains with deglitching
- Looping delay with scrubbing and vinyl-scratch modulation
- FFT-based spectral processing with buffer interpolation
- Creative reverb based on Lexicon 480L with pitch shifting and self-oscillation
- Karplus-Strong plucked string synthesis with 18 chord voicings
- Clock-synchronized beat repeat and slice manipulation
- High-resolution multiband spectral filter with up to 128 logarithmic bands
- CV control over Position, Density, Size, Pitch, and Feedback
- Freeze function halts audio recording for looping and texture freezing
- Trigger input for grain triggering, voice switching, clock sync, and spectral glitching
Controls & Jacks (53)
- Freeze LED — Indicator for freeze state
- Status LED R — Status indicator LED 1
- Status LED L — Status indicator LED 2
- Trigger In — Trigger input to explicitly start playback of a new grain
- Reverb — Controls the rate at which grains are generated
- Bank LED C — Mode indicator LED 1
- Size — Controls the size/duration of individual grains
- Density — Controls the rate at which grains are generated
- Pitch — Controls the pitch/playback speed of the grains
- Bank LED A — Mode indicator LED 2
- Quality LED 4 — Status indicator LED 3
- Quality LED 8 — Status indicator LED 4
- Status LED C — Center status indicator LED
- Out Level — Controls feedback amount for granular processing effects
- Density CV — CV input for density control
- Position CV — CV input for position control
- In Gain — Selects from which part of the recording buffer the audio grains are read
- Quality LED 2 — Quality mode indicator LED 2
- Texture — Blends between dry and wet processed signal
- Bank LED D — Mode indicator LED 3
- Audio Out L — Right channel processed audio output
- Position — Selects from which part of the recording buffer the audio grains are read
- Audio Out R — Left channel processed audio output
- Feedback CV — CV input for feedback control
- Size CV — CV input for size control
- Texture CV — CV input for Texture parameter
- Audio In 2 — Right channel audio input for granular processing
- Level LED -18 — Input level indicator LED at -18 dB
- Aux — Auxiliary stereo output for monitoring or effects send
- VCA In — VCA control voltage input for amplitude modulation
- Bank LED B — Mode indicator LED 4
- Freeze CV — CV input for freeze control
- Mix — Blends between dry input and processed output
- Level LED -12 — Rotary encoder for navigating the on-screen menu. Selects synthesis models and adjusts internal parameters. Press to enter/exit settings.
- VCA Out — VCA-controlled audio output
- Density CV Atten — Attenuverter for Density CV input
- Audio In R — Left channel audio input for granular processing
- Audio In L — Left channel audio input for granular processing
- Bank — Selects synthesis mode bank (Granular, Pitch Shifter, Looping Delay, Spectral)
- V/OCT — 1V/Oct pitch tracking input for grain pitch control
- Freeze — Freezes the audio buffer, preventing new audio from being recorded
- Pitch CV — CV input for pitch control
- Texture CV Atten — Attenuverter for Texture CV input
- Time — Clock input for delay time synchronization
- Level LED 0
- Pan — Controls the size/duration of individual grains
- Trigger — Trigger output synced to grain generation
- Feedback — Controls the stereo spread of the grain cloud
- Quality LED 1 — Quality mode indicator LED 1
- Level LED -6
- In Mute — Mutes the audio input
- Out Mute — Freezes the audio buffer to prevent new recordings
- In Monitor — Monitor output for the input signal
How-To Guides
- Triggered Micro-Sample Player
- Classic Shimmer Reverb
- Karplus-Strong Plucked Chord Synthesis
- Spectral Texture Capture and Morph
- Rhythmic Beat Repeat Stutter
- Oliverb Self-Oscillating Pad
- Spectral Clouds Morphing Filter
- Granular Freeze Texture Generator
- Tape-Scrub Pitch Shifter
- Resonator as Polyphonic Chord Oscillator
Explore the interactive Typhoon panel on BleepDex — tap any control to learn what it does.
