MEGA Modular Corporation - Bathymeter

Bathymeter is a 4-channel gesture recorder — move the slider, record the movement, play it back. That's the core idea, and it's brilliantly simple.

Each of the four channels captures your slider gestures as CV modulation. Recorded gestures can be looped freely like an LFO, reset via trigger input to behave like an envelope, or synced to an external clock for tight, quantized automation. The speed knob controls playback rate — 12 o'clock plays back at recorded speed, turn right to speed up, left to slow down. In clock mode, speed steps through multiplications and divisions (/8, /4, /2, x2, x4, x8) of the incoming clock. Overdub lets you layer new slider movements on top of existing recordings.

There are nice thoughtful details throughout: a Start bubble lights up when the slider returns to the position where recording began, making seamless loops easier. Quiet Switch mode (hold Clock + press a channel button) lets you switch between channels without accidentally recording. Recordings save to flash memory and recall on boot.

Record wobbly hand-drawn LFOs, sketch envelope shapes, build humanized rhythmic patterns, or just use it as a freeform CV sequencer. The results always carry that unmistakable played-by-a-person feel.

Features:

• 4 independent channels of gesture recording via slider
• Free-running loop playback (LFO behaviour)
• Trigger reset inputs for envelope-style one-shot playback
• Clock sync input with divisions and multiplications (/8 to x8)
• Overdub mode for layering gestures on existing recordings
• Variable speed knob — slow down or speed up playback per channel
• Start bubble indicator for seamless loop alignment
• Preview Slider Level mode (hold Clock + Dub) for live performative gestures without recording
• Save recordings to flash memory with automatic recall on boot
• Restore to factory default function
• 4 CV outputs, 1 clock input, 2 reset inputs
• Firmware updates through USB
• Designed by Carson Walls (Decapod Devices), programmed by Eris, panel by Robots Are Red