Citadel FX Wizard
BASTL Instruments
The Citadel FX Wizard is a eurorack module that empowers you to explore the limits of sound processing through modulation and modularity.
Use 9 simple yet refined stereo effects, or go nuts with modulation and immerse in a powerful glitch and sound design heaven.
Instead of navigating thru preset effects, you can craft your own unique effects with dynamic behavior using modulation. The FX WIZARD embraces happy accidents, sparking excitement with unexpected and unheard sonic transformations.
TWO FOR ONE
The Citadel comes equipped with a reversible front panel with FX WIZARD on one side and WAVE BARD on the other side. It also comes with our custom designed tool to make the panel switching as seamless as possible. You can load and try different Citadel/Kastle 2 present and future firmwares and updates with a USB port (on the back).
Push your sound through different dimensions
There are three main categories of effects, each offering both finely controlled parameters and exciting extremes that you wouldn’t typically find elsewhere:
- DELAY FX family (blue/green): Includes a clean stereo delay, a flanger with stereo chorus capabilities and some spicy extremes, and a freezer to capture and hold moments of time in a fun modular way.
- AMPLITUDE FX family (bright colors): Features an autopanner with ring modulation possibilities, a crunchy digital crusher with powerful feedback, and a rhythmic slicer that can create dynamic transients from any drone.
- PITCH-SHIFTING FX family (red colors): Contains a dirty pitcher that shifts signals up in either tonal or rhythmic patterns, a fun replayer effect that reverses audio and introduces lots of pitch-shifting artifacts, and last but not least, a nuanced shifter that adjusts the pitch up or down to achieve detuned sounds and feedback pitch slopes.
Features
- 9 FX modes
— delay (max time in stereo is 1.15s)
— flanger
— freezer
— panner
— crusher
— slicer
— pitcher
— replayer
— shifter
- stereo audio processing at 44kHz/16-bits
- Time parameter with attenuverting modulation (S&H or free)
- Feedback parameter with attenuverting modulation
- AMOUNT mix with attenuverting modulation
- FILTER in the feedback with Lowpass/Highpass
- STEREO detuning for each FX MODE
- FX MODE cv input with attenuation to change modes with CV
- TRIG input to synchronize effects with tempo
- LFO with triangle and pulse output, reset input, attenuverting modulation, synced or free
- Tempo Generator with tap tempo and divider with external clock
- Pattern Generator (tempo synced) with GATE and CV output and patch programmability
- patchable envelope follower
- stereo eurorack-level DC coupled input with input gain (up to +12db), accepts up to -10V to + 10V
- DC coupled stereo eurorack-level output, -5V to +5V
- stereo headphone output capable of driving headphones up to 250 Ohm
- analog sync input
- analog sync output
- TRS MIDI Input (clock, notes, CCs, pitch bend)
- USB-C on the back of the module (firmware updates, USB MIDI in/out)
Technical Details
- 16 HP
- PTC fuse and diode protected 10 pin power connector
- 24 mm deep
- current consumption: +12 V: <60 mA (w/o headphones), <90 mA (w/headphones to max); -12 V: <20 mA
- Input Ranges:
— FREE IN and NOTE IN: -0.2V to 7V
— CLK IN, RESET IN, C IN, G IN: 0V to 5V
— LFO MOD, FX MODE IN, FBK IN, AMOUNT IN, LFO RESET, TRIG IN: -5V to +5V
— L/R IN: -10V to +10V - Output Ranges:
— CLK OUT, ENV OUT, CV OUT, LFO TRI OUT,LFO PULSE OUT: 0V to +5V
— L/R OUT: -5V to +5V
— Headphone output: 2Vpp (line level compatible)
