Overview - Intellijel Tangrams Manual

OVERVIEW

Tangrams is a dual ADSR with a heart... or, in
this case, a pulser. It is, perhaps, best
understood by mentally dividing its panel into
three sections, as shown here:
● ENVELOPE 1 (
two traditional ADSR (Attack, Decay,
Sustain, Release) envelope generators.
The Attack, Decay and Release times all
scale with a 3-position SPEED switch,
enabling everything from fast, snappy
envelopes (suitable for percussion) to
slow, lethargic envelopes (ideal for pads
and drones). The envelope can be gated
with its MANUAL GATE button, a
GATE IN signal, or the internal PULSER
(see below). You can retrigger a currently
gated envelope using its RETRIG input
and, because the envelope output runs
through a dedicated VCA, you can control
its overall LEVEL via CV.
● ENVELOPE 2 (
second of two traditional ADSR (Attack,
Decay, Sustain, Release) envelope
generators. It is functionally identical to
Envelope 1.
● PULSER ( GREEN section
and PULSE 2) — each with its own independent and CV-able control for setting the pulse length
(labeled T1 and T2 ). PULSE 2 is always triggered at the conclusion of PULSE 1.
Each envelope lets you select whether or not you want to use the PULSER as an additional
GATE source and, if you do, whether PULSE 1 or PULSE 2 is the HIGH (gate) PULSE. Sending
the PULSER to an envelope will OR its gate with the envelope's GATE IN and MANUAL GATE
button.
An additional switch lets you set whether PULSE 1 or PULSE 2 generates a HIGH gate via the
PULSE OUT jack.
RED section ) : The first of
BLUE section ) : The
) : The PULSER section generates two sequential pulses (PULSE 1
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