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INTRO
Thanks to the Bastl community for the endless support and constant inspiration through our shared love of synths and music and fun.
High fives to Václav Peloušek for adding the digital brain to softPop and for meeting my impossible feature requests in style.
SoftPop is a modular analog noise
creature.
It is playful, stubborn, rowdy and maybe
even a little bit wise. The heart of softPop
is a wild tangle of feedback, chaos and
an oddly familiar organic personality.
There is a great amount of complexity in
its simplicity and the open architecture
enables you to explore all the distant
places of its chaotic galaxy. One thing
to keep in mind while exploring is that
everything affects everything and
adjusting certain controls may have
a more far reaching impact than you would
expect. The patch bay and a *secret*
hacking chamber in the back can be used
to change the behavior but on its own
it's a very sensitive system. I've provided
a bunch of examples in this manual that
can help you as points of departure. Then
it is up to you to trek into the sunset of
sonic mayhem.
SoftPop's metal construction, battery
power, built-in speaker, and fully modular
patchbay make it a truly portable,
experimental sound lab. Take it to the
beach or a picnic, let your friends, kids
or cats play with it. Connect it to the
outside world via the built-in patchbay.
Share clocks with your drum machine or
let it intuitively sync to whatever signal you
feed into its input. Send and receive CVs
with your modular synth and configure
crazy new sound systems. Process
external audio through the analog filter
which is full of infinite character. Or use
it completely on its own and get to know
softPop's unique voice.
What is it trying to say?
How are
and 1 related? Are they alone
in the vast blackness of space or will
they find a shared purpose in the infinite
unknown? Will this bring answers or even
more questions?
<3, Pete
Maybe you just have to listen... and then
explore, connect, unplug and have fun!
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