Bastl Instruments Dark Matter

Dark Matter is a high energy sound processor and signal generator that unleashes the crazy raw power of audio feedback into your eurorack system.

A Little Crazy. Untamed. Evocative and Deep and kind of Awful and Totally Beautiful
It’s inspired by “no input” mixer feedback techniques that explore the complex natural behaviors of amplifier circuits pushed beyond their limits. Dark Matter brings this behavior to the modular synth, adds voltage control to everything, plus tons of patching options and a big ol’ bag of tricks for making feedback a truly playable effect.

Features
DRIVE
Input VCA with gain and soft clipping
Hyper drive switch for extra punch

TONE
2 band equalizer
Voltage controlled bass and treble boost/overdrive

DYNAMICS
Envelopes generated by INPUT signal
Outputs 0-5V. Normalized to FBK CV and X-FADE CV inputs
Low and High decay time switch
Input pre or post DRIVE switch
Envelope monitor LED

FEEDBACK
Voltage controlled feedback
High frequency “warning” LED
External feedback loop section
FBK OUT and FBK IN jacks
Output phase switch
FBK VCA in/out switch

CROSSFADER
Voltage controlled crossfade between input and feedback
Input pre/post-drive crossfade switch
DYNAMICS envelope normalized to mix CV input

Things to Do with Dark Matter:
Excite audio signals to the breaking point with 4 flavors of voltage-controlled overdrive
Turbo-charge percussive hits and drum beats
Add sub-octave tones and timbrel richness to melodies and bass lines
Tweak your tone with a crunchy overdriving 2 band EQ
Add signal ducking and gating effects with the built-in envelope follower
Go the feedback way and create meandering loops through your rack using the 10 I/O jacks... Feedback your feedback your feedback

Technical Details:
13 HP
PTC fuse and diode protected 10-pin power connector
24 mm deep
current consumption +12V: < 75mA; -12V: <75 mA

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