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Shakmat Bard Quartet - Quad quantizer

Shakmat Modular Bard Quartet- A Eurorack Quad quantizer, arpeggiator, harmonizer, octave transposing, keyboard and much more in just 10hp.

 

Shakmat Modular 

Bard Quartet- Quad quantizer

Features


• Quad quantizer with user editable and independent scales 

• Harmony potentiometer and CV input allowing to easily recall 8 different sets of scales 
• User editable microtuning capabilities 
• Arpeggiator with control on octave spread and mode 
• Octave transposing (-3 to +3 oct) 
• Shared transpose input (per octave, pre or post quanitzer) 
• Shared gate input acting as a track and hold or a reset for the arpeggiators 
• Shared trigger output 
• Non-volatile memory of 10 slots of 8 harmonies 
• Optional input interraction (normalisation or analog shift register) 
• V/Oct, Hz/V and Buchla tuning compliant 
• Tuning mode generating a precise 0V on every outputs (firmware 1.1)
• Skiff Friendly 
• Djtechtools rubber injected potentiometers 
• 10 hp wide



Evolving Harmonies

The Bard Quartet composes and sings along with your complex harmonies! With its 4 channels and integrated keyboard, the Bard Quartet can control up to 4 different instruments which will play together as a harmonious quartet fed by your musical ideas. Even better: the potentiometer allows you to navigate through 8 customisable harmonic progressions, leading to the creation of entire songs!

The Bard Quartet can memorise up to 320 scales (4 channels, 8 harmonies, 10 memory slots). Furthermore it includes highly customisable Microtuning and Arpeggiator options, as well as three assignable inputs and outputs.

Shakmat Modular - Centaur´s Gate User Manual (PDF)