Status: Built

“Melodic Orchestration” is the best name I could think of for a tool that I designed to be a Swiss army knife of pitch, gate, and velocity mangling.

I was inspired by both the Roland Aria J-6 (which is a very simple arpeggiator) and the Moog Subharmonicon (which plays with subharmonic frequencies). I realized that creating a eurorack module that could take a single input and create several outputs based on that input would allow me to clone the functionality of both of those instruments. An idea was born.

At the core of the module is an Atmega1284 which serves as the brains of the unit. The microcontroller is connected to a display and rotary encoder for user input.  The module has three CV inputs with attenuators and offsets which can be assigned to any program setting by the user, this allows a wide range of flexibility and improvisation when being used. MIDI in and out ports are provided if you want to talk to other instruments, and the MIDI jack configuration (A or B) can be set with jumpers on the back of the module. Lastly, there is a discrete FTDI port on the front for programming.

So far, the programs I’ve created are:

• A Roland Aria J-6 emulator
• A tuning program to set the pitch on each output

Next, I’d like to develop:

• A Moog Subharmonicon emulator
• A Stocastic Instruments Inspiration Generator emulator
• A step sequencer
• A quantizer
• A MIDI to CV / CV to MIDI bridge