Noise Engineering Melotus Versio Stereo Texturizer

Experience Bold Granular Stereo Texturizations with Noise Engineering's Melotus Versio Module

Melotus Versio is a versatile module with stereo-in, stereo-out grain delays, accompaniment, and transformation features, as well as a DSP platform. It is a stereo texturizer that uses granular processing to transform and reshape sound. Designed to be played by hand or manipulated within a patch, Melotus is everything from a grain delay to a completely transformative texturizer with grain control and manipulation of triggering, direction, and randomness. Filter audio with a lowpass/highpass combo filter that adds haunting shimmers and subharmonics. Freeze grains by hand or with triggers and gates, or clock them to create rhythmic effects. Plus, MV is part of Noise Engineering's Versio stereo DSP platform. A simple USB connection will allow you to update to a variety of effects firmwares. Open-source support is available through libDaisy, which allows you to write your own firmware!

Interface

• Blend: Dry/wet balance control. When turned fully left, the unmodified input signal is passed through. Fully right, only the processed signal is heard. Points in the middle give you a mix of both.
• Sparse: Changes the number of grains from 24 at minimum to 1 at maximum. Grains become more obvious as the knob is turned up.
• Tone (bipolar): Filter and effects. To the left of 12:00, Tone acts as a lowpass filter and adds in detuned subharmonics. To the right of 12:00, Tone acts as a highpass filter and adds in a slightly detuned octave-up shimmer.
• Length: Changes the length of the grain from .2s to 2s.
• Regen: Feedback control. All the way to the left, feedback is minimized. As the knob is turned, the amount of feedback increases, creating longer textures and complex effects. Past 3:00 the grain feedback ducks based on new sounds at the input.
• Delay: Sets the delay time of the grains from .1s to 8s. When in clocked mode, Delay acts as a clock divider/multiplier with the following settings: 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1/1, 5/4, 3/2, 7/4, 2/1
• Cohere: Reduces the randomness of grain triggering as the knob is turned up.
• Flow: Gate/trigger input and respective button; behavior is based on the Clk/Hld/Frz switch setting.
• Rev/???/Fwd: Grain playback direction. Selects between backward, chaos, and forward.
• Clk/Hld/Frz: Mode selector that sets the button behavior.
• Clk: In Clk mode, the Flow button acts as a tap tempo, and the Flow input acts as a clock in. Holding the button down for a few seconds clears a tapped clock. Note that clocks set in this mode are remembered when switching modes.
• Hld: In Hld mode, Flow acts as a grain-freeze toggle. Pressing the Flow button or sending trigger inputs freeze the current grain until the next button press or trigger in.
• Frz: In Frz mode, the Flow button freezes the current grain while the Flow button is pressed or a gate at the Flow input is high, and unfreezes when the button is released or the gate goes low.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Type: Granular texturizer and delay
• Size: 10 HP
• Depth: 1.5 inch
• Power: 2x5 Eurorack
• +12 V: 70 mA
• -12 V: 70 mA
• +5 V: 0 mA

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