Gliss Draw Waveforms Directly Into Your Modular Synth with This Open-Source Touch Module

• Type: Other
• Trademark: chipboard
• Origin: China
• Model NO.: Gliss

Product Description

 

Gliss is an elegant and intuitive synthesizer module for touch control. This Eurorack module lets you draw waveforms directly into your system so you can add a human touch to your control signals. It also can act as a signal visualizer, slider, or expressive capacitive keyboard. Gliss is small (4 HP), and powerful, allowing you to control your signals through high-precision touch sensing. See how waves behave with descriptive and immediate visual output via LEDs mounted behind the touchplate.

 

 

 

Intuitive Modular Synth Touch Control

 

Modular synthesizer parameters are usually controlled by buttons, knobs and sliders, which are great for precise and accurate control, but too often feel like a barrier between the performer and the underlying control signals. The Gliss Eurorack module overcomes this barrier with an unrivaled degree of gestural control, visual feedback, and flexibility.

 

 

 

Powered by the technology behind Bela's Trill capacitive touch sensors in combination with a Cortex-M4F microcontroller, Gliss produces two high-resolution, simultaneous signals: one indicating the position of your finger, the other indicating the size of the contact area of your finger. These signals are available via two CV outputs, offering two distinct but related dimensions of control to route through your system.

 

Whether controlling amplitude, duration, timbral, or spatial parameters (or any combination you may choose), Gliss connects you directly to your modules with an immediacy and flexibility that opens exciting new possibilities in Eurorack.

 

Features

 

• Control your modules directly, with touch position and touch size available as control voltages


• Record gestures, up to one minute


• Loop recorded gestures to create LFOs with custom waveforms


• Trigger recorded gesture for custom envelopes


• Play a tuneable five-key keyboard with glissando and vibrato


• Scale, clip, offset, and visualize external CV and audio signals


• Open source and well documented

  Specifications

   
  
  
  • Capacitive touch sensor with sub-millimeter accuracy (Cypress Capsense technology)
  
  
  • STM32 Cortex-M4F microcontroller
  
  
  • 23 addressable RGB LEDs mounted below the faceplate for visual feedback
  
  
  • Bicolor illuminated button input
  
  
  • 1 mono jack input (-5 V to 10 V, over voltage protection)
  
  
  • 2 mono jack outputs (-5 V to 10 V configurable)
  
  
  • Works with Eurorack standard power supply (-12 V to 12 V)
  
  
  • Comes with ribbon power cable
  
  
  • USB micro socket for firmware updates, customization and hacking
  
  
  • Current needs: +12 V:150 mA, -12 V:20 mA
  
  
  • Width: 4 HP
  
  
  • Depth: 26mm with power cable