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Summary of Contents for Ritual Electronics Altar
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Summary 03....Warranty 04....Installation 05....Overview 06....Controls 07....Character 08....Color 09....1V/Oct 10....Self patching 11....Patch ideas... -
Page 3: Warranty
Thank you for purchasing Ritual Electronics Altar. Limited warranty Your module has been assembled with care in our Ritual Electronics warrants this product to be free of defects in studio in Marseille, France. materials or construction for a period of one year from the date of purchase. -
Page 4: Installation
0mA on +5V You will need 12HP of free space in your Eurorack case to install Altar. The module is 25mm deep. Connect the included ribbon cable to the module. Connect the other end of the cable to the bus board connector of your case. -
Page 5: Overview
It is particularly useful to recreate accent patterns à la 303. There is a gain at Altar’s input to beef up your signal which then distort the fi lter core. The fi lter tracks 1V/oct for 4-5 octaves and can turn into a very sweet sine oscillator. -
Page 6: Controls
Altar controls Frequency knob Sets the cutoff From sub-audio (≈2.5Hz anti clockwise) to ultrasonic (43.5kHz fully clockwise) Frequency attenuverter knob Going left the CV input is subtracted from the Frequency knob value. To the right the CV input is added. -
Page 7: Character
Character Patched very simply Altar is a relatively smooth Do not underestimate the gain knob. Its neutral filter. It is not what you would expect from a noise position is around 2 o’clock. worshipping company. This very knob changes the character of the filter quite a lot. -
Page 8: Color
Colors The Color act as a three input crossfader. It transitions smoothly from band-pass to low-pass to high-pass. This unusual BP-LP-HP fi lter arrangement is very suited for voltage controlled transition giving a more pleasant sweep than the usual LP-BP-HP. - Page 9 1V/Oct Altar’s 1V/Oct input allows for fi lter tracking and sine oscillator functionality. It tracks over 4-5 octaves. You can adjust the tracking using the onboard vertical trimmer, located on the right side of the PCB. Calibration procedure You’ll need a way to measure frequency. The spectrum analyzer or tuner in your DAW can help you if you don’t have an oscilloscope or a multimeter.
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Page 10: Self Patching
New tones can be unlocked by patching the input or the output of the filter to its different CV inputs. As all our modules, Altar shines when self patched. Try patching its output in the Colour input to add thickness to the sound. -
Page 11: Patch Ideas
Try using the triangle waveform of your oscillator to modulate Anima, Out ----------- VCA, CV In the Color CV of Altar for a slightly fizzier timbre. Anima, Out ----------- Mixer, In I Send this overly complicated mess to your favorite distortion to Accent gate ------------ Mixer, In II finish it off. - Page 12 Try using one of the oscillator’s outputs to CV the Color or Freq Pro tip: one can also use the self oscillation compensation to on Altar for a slightly chaotic behavior have a 10Vpp emergency LFO out of Altar. It goes down to 2.5Hz. There are better uses of the filter though.
- Page 13 Patch notes Right in between the Low Pass and High Pass lies a pseudo Anima, LFO Out ------------ Altar, Freq CV All Pass filter. It doesn’t filter that much but it shifts the phase at the cutoff point. Add in resonance to taste to hear the effect.
- Page 14 1V/Oct Patch #4 - French filtered house Patch notes We dared. The high pass filter in Altar is sooo good you need Sampler, Out ------------ Envelope Follower, In to try filtering your favorite disco loops and 909 beats at least Envelope Follower, Out ---------- Altar, Freq CV once.
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