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Summary of Contents for Rabid Elephant NATURAL GATE
- Page 1 NATURAL GATE U SER’S MANUAL ...
- Page 2 Introduction Natural Gate has been designed to generate a signature response evocative of the acoustics of the natural world. Think of how the plucking of a string or the beating of a drum head produces organic sounds we are all intimately familiar with, sounds that resonate with us, they feel right. ...
- Page 3 Foreword All of our instruments are designed with clear musical and artistic goals. The goal for Natural Gate was to create a device that produces sounds as if they came from nature. Natural Gate is not a vactrol emulation or a vactrol LPG variant. Vactrols do not provide responses ...
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Page 4: Installation
The blue wires on our cable go to the ‘STRIPE’ mark of the power header. Here's a short video showing exactly how to connect power for Rabid Elephant modules (skips ahead to 1:41 to bypass the intro of why we do it this way): ... - Page 5 Interfacing with Natural Gate This is Natural Gate: Natural Gate's two channels are mirrored about the centre. ...
- Page 6 1. DECAY Slider This adjusts the decay time. From very short, highly damped clicks/taps all the way to events ringing several seconds in duration. Offset control. 2. OPEN Slider This slider is used to manually open the gate. This offset is post EG. Offset control. 3.
- Page 7 11. IN Jack DC-coupled input. Feed in your audio or control voltages here for processing by the Natural Gate. NOTE: With nothing plugged into this jack, a DC voltage is normalled to the input so that you can extract the envelope profile at the OUT jack. ...
- Page 8 Now feed in signals to the other jacks and do your thing. Natural Gate is incredibly simple to jump in and start using, however, there are many of subtle nuances that can be musically exploited. Read the sections "Interesting Bits" and "From Within the ...
- Page 9 Since Natural Gate is DC-coupled and we've normalled a DC voltage to the IN when nothing is plugged in, you will get Natural Gate's envelope at the OUT jack. Send them around as you wish. You can also plug something other than audio to the IN for Natural Gate to process. ...
- Page 10 Set your other EG with some slower attack. Also try feeding the source trigger signal to both the external EG (again OP to the CTRL input of Natural Gate), and to one input of a logic gate (AND, OR, XOR, etc) with random source as 2nd input. Send the output of the logic gate to Natural Gate's HIT ...
- Page 11 Modulating at Audio Rate & Waveshaping Natural Gate can also be used as a wave shaper and it sounds really good. The decay profile add their own character to the wave shapes. Try feeding in sync'd and un-sync'd audio rate signals into the CV ...
- Page 12 It is likely the volume of your taps increased when you approached your absolute top speed. Now try this with the Natural Gate. It is most noticeable for longer decays so set the decay around 80% and send in a very slow LFO or manual trigger to the HIT input. Now increase ...
- Page 13 Trimmers The 4 attenuverter trimmers on Natural Gate are just that... We find these are incredibly useful to have onboard and will save from needing external attenuation modules. These, coupled with the playable controls (the sliders), give all required CV processing capabilities: attenuation, inversion, and ...
- Page 14 Every module we make starts with a purely musical goal. For Natural Gate, it was to make a module that created sounds as if they came from our natural world and not the artificial one. Initially turning ...
- Page 15 ZERO setting (zero indicator will illuminate) with MATERIAL in the uppermost position. Natural Gate also allows the musician to control how far it will open - an upper limit. By normalling a DC voltage to the CTRL input jack, the CTRL attenuverter allows the CTRL signal to sweep both ...
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Page 16: Specifications
Thanks for using Natural Gate and we hope it gives you a link to the world we naturally fit into! Specifications ● HIT trigger threshold: +0.25 V ● Envelope output amplitude: +10 Vpp, unipolar (0 to +10 V) ●... - Page 17 Our instruments, we hope, will never end up in a landfill and we design in such a fashion to maximize life. However, we realise everything has a finite lifetime so we would prefer any Rabid Elephant item that would otherwise be disposed be sent back to us. Do NOT dispose of any of our products in the ...
- Page 18 Spread your creativity and kindness with the world... ~ W ith love , Rabid Elephant ...