4ms Ensemble Oscillator
- Order number: 200087
- Depth: 25
A massive polyphonic module with phase distortion, additive synthesis, FM and wavefolding: The Ensemble Oscillator by 4ms!
Together with Matthias Puech, 4ms have developed an oscillator that can do everything from fat basses to organ-like chords, all the way to wild and distorted glitches and noise.
The Ensemble Oscillator delivers 16 oscillators with sine waves. These sine waves, which are fairly poor in harmonic content, can then be put through the meat grinder with FM, PM and Wavefolding to give them some nice corners and edges.
Cross FM makes your 16 oscillators modulate each other in frequency and Twist lets you distort the phase of your waves for nice Casio sounds. Warp is responsible for wavefolding, creating wonderful harmonics and rich sounds.
Ensemble Oscillator gives you different ways to detune the various oscillators, and then always transport them into one of the many so-called musical scales. In total, the module comes with 30 pre-made scales but makes it easy to create your own. Lastly, the oscillator has two audio outputs that can be either mono or stereo.
Ensemble Oscillator can do everything you've always been missing in your monophonic Eurorack system, making it easy to create complex sounds.
Features:
- 16 sine wave oscillators
- 30 ready-made scales for quantizing the oscillators
- Twist parameter for phase distortion
- Warp parameter for wavefolding
- 3 Cross FM algorithms
- Mono and stereo output with panning algorithms
- Two 1 V/Oct inputs for pitch and root
HE: | 3 |
TE: | 16 |
Depth: | 25 |
Power consumption +12V: | 114 |
Power consumption -12V: | 45 |
Ensemble Osc @ 4ms
Based in Portland (Oregon, US) Dan Green and Jeannot Quenson had a years experience already building guitar pedals. Since one input/output and tone and volume control felt a bit limiting, they applied their knowledge and passion to building a wide range of modules. Their collaboration with Matthias Puech (developer of the Clouds' Parasites alternative firmware) and Gary Hall (designer of the Lexicon PCM42) have proved to be very fruitful.