Serge Modular - Paperface 50 Paris Flash Slopes Panel

50 years old and still as fresh as ever: The Serge Paperface Paris Flash Slopes Panel creates modulations and sounds!

Serge synthesizers are turning 50 and to mark this anniversary the Paperface panels are being reissued. The Slopes Panel contains various sections for generating different waves. These are the great-grandfathers of all slope generators, from which Eurorack classics such as the Make Noise Maths originated. In combination with the Serge Helios Panel, you get a very complex combination of sound generator and CV generator, but the Slopes Panel is also a convincing sound generator on its own with everything you need.
The Paperface series impresses with a wonderful hieroglyphic-like design and can easily cut a fine figure in any designer home. Simple elements that together create a coherent picture.

The Paris Flash Panel has two very rudimentary sections, but they allow you to create waves in a unique way. The Positive and Negative Slew sections are, to put it bluntly, individual building blocks for the rise and fall time of a wave. Positive Slew allows you to set a positive slew time. This increases from 0V to higher volt settings. Negative slew does exactly the same, but goes towards 0V. There are various inputs and outputs for control voltages to make your resulting wave very complex. There are two channels per section, so you can create two waves. You can also loop them and go far into the audio range.

The Smooth & Stepped Generator (SSG) is a Serge classic and is responsible for creating various voltages. The Smooth section adds slew to your input signals for envelopes and delays. Patch the cycle output into the input and get a repeating triangle wave! The stepped generator acts like a sample & hold stage. When a pulse is applied to the sample input in cycle mode, complex stepped waveforms are generated. You also get a wonderful sounding noise source, which you can also send to the sample input of the stepped generator.

The envelope section then looks more like what we imagine an envelope to look like. There is Attack (Rise) and Decay (Fall), but also a Window parameter that can be used to shorten and lengthen the entire envelope. The end-of-cycle output allows you to start other events, such as another envelope.

The CV processor (CV-Pro) comes in a double version. Here you can edit, attenuate, invert or combine all kinds of control voltages.
The Dual Gates section acts as two VCAs, with different parameters to go beyond a simple VCA function. Finally, there's the 1973 VCF filter, which you can use to refine your sound. Great resonance and plenty of CV inputs let you tweak your sound even further.

Finally, you can hear the sound you have created at the balanced output. The Slopes panel lets you produce confusing modulations and fat sounds and pairs wonderfully with one of the other Paperface panels.

This Paperface panel comes installed in a boat housing. The suitable power supply unit must be obtained separately.

Features:

• Positive Slew
• Negative Slew
• Smooth & Stepped Generator
• Envelope
• Dual CV Processor
• Dual Gates
• Filter
• Balanced-Output
  
  

PSU not included.