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Four-deck version of Denon's standalone controller, based on the Engine DJ OS, featuring WiFi streaming and Serato support. Built-in speakers allow quick and easy monitoring for live streaming or practice sessions.

*** Engine DJ 3.1 Performance Software for Hardware (OS) - Update June 2023 ***

New Features

Touch FX - Use the touchscreen to control and interact with FX in a whole new way. Touch FX bring powerful effect combinations to your fingertips. Swipe in any direction to instantly create build-ups, drops, and transitions. The added ability to latch Touch FX allows you to focus on other aspects of your mix while the effect remains active. Touch FX are available for all Engine DJ devices, including Media Players, however, the selection of available Touch FX will vary by the device.

New Touch FX include: Filter Echo, Filter Reverb, Filter Roll, LFO Echo, Filter Dub Echo, Filter Gate, Noise Gate, Flanger, LFO Filter, Filter

New Main FX - Denon DJ devices receive 26 new and updated Main FX. This suite of new dynamic effects provides DJs with easy-to-use tools to build energy, create drama, aid with transitions, and individualize their performances.

New Main FX include: Echo Out, Swell Verb, Hold Echo, Recycler, Stutter Out, Riser, Pitch Down, Scale Down, Reverb, LFO Verb, Reverb Drop, Reverse Reverb, Reverb Rise, Flanger (-), Beat Break, Backspin, Brake, Roll

All effects now offer a Frequency parameter, allowing you to apply the effect to a focused frequency range.

Sampler Updates

Sampler audio can be routed to any available channel or the Main output. To change the Sampler routing, open Settings and choose the Mixer tab.
The Sampler pad mode can now also be accessed by pressing the ROLL pad mode button twice without holding the Shift button. (Denon DJ hardware)
The sampler volume setting is now remembered between power cycles.
Added the ability to read Smartlists created in Engine DJ (Desktop).

Improvements and Fixes

Track Preview can now be routed directly to the headphones for instant track previews without setting the cue source in advance. (PRIME 4)
Reworded Effect parameter reset behavior setting to make it clearer.
Fixed an issue where the Date Added field was incorrectly setting newly added tracks as the day before.
Fixed an issue where the internal SATA drive would not show up as a source immediately after updating.
Fixed an issue where a track remained in the Prepare list when loading to a deck in certain situations.
Improved peak hold behavior on all products that have peak hold VU meters.
Other various stability enhancements & improvements

Engine DJ Preparation Software (Desktop)

New Features

Smartlists - Automatically organize songs from all connected drives into playlists based on the criteria or rules that you specify. To create a Smartlist, click the Smartlist icon on the Collection folder or right-click on an existing Playlist and select 'Create Smartlist'. You can easily turn a Smartlist into a regular playlist by right-clicking the Smartlist and choosing 'Convert to Playlist'. This creates a Playlist with the same name & content as the Smartlist.

Improvements and Fixes

Fixed an issue that prevented the highlighted track from updating when bulk editing metadata.
Fixed an issue where the Date Added field was incorrectly setting newly added tracks as the day before.
Fixed an issue where Serato beat grids were not imported correctly.
Other various stability enhancements & improvements

Supplier's Notes:
Denon DJ, the leader in standalone DJ products and innovation, introduces the SC LIVE 4, a 4-Deck Standalone DJ Controller with 7" touchscreen, built-in speakers, and Wi-Fi connectivity. This club-style, all-in-one device gives DJs ultimate creative freedom and offers the world's first DJ hardware integration with Amazon Music Unlimited.

World's First Amazon Music and Denon DJ Partnership

The Denon DJ SC LIVE DJ controllers were designed using an exclusive secure chipset to meet Amazon Music's streaming requirements, making them the world's first DJ hardware to support Amazon Music Unlimited. This integration with Amazon Music and other popular streaming services gives DJs instant access to over 90 million CD quality (aka "lossless") songs across all musical genres. With the SC LIVE 4's built-in Wi-Fi and lightning-fast onboard song analysis, DJs can now perform a full set without owning or preparing any music ahead of time.

Laptop Free Performances with Engine DJ OS

The SC LIVE 4 is powered by Engine DJ, the same leading standalone DJ operating system that fuels laptop-free performances on the biggest stages and DJ booths across the globe. This seamless hardware and software integration intuitively places performance essentials in the perfect place for inspirational mixes and live shows. The dedicated Layer buttons provide quick access to the controls of each of the 4 playing decks with the waveforms stacked in channel order on the full-color touchscreen. Vital information including the deck number, track position, bpm, and time are brightly shown in the center of the 6", high-definition touch-sensitive jog wheels.

Ultimate DJ Controller for Serato DJ and Virtual DJ

With "Computer Mode" enabled, the SC LIVE 4 can be used as a dedicated DJ software controller for Serato DJ Pro and Virtual DJ. This 1:1 hardware to software integration displays moving waveforms and music library information on the HD touchscreen and provides full access to FX and other top features. This versatility gives DJs multiple options to perform however they prefer.

Designed for Creative Mixing

The SC LIVE 4 gives DJs the power to perform anywhere with 4-deck standalone freedom and wireless access to Amazon Music Unlimited. This combination of performance features and unprecedented musical access opens an exciting new realm of creative mixing possibilities for laptop-free DJ performances. Inheriting the professional club-standard layout, features, and intuitive workflows from Denon DJ's flagship SC6000 PRIME media players and club-style mixers, the SC LIVE 4 fuses the power of the club-ready modular setup into a compact & intuitive 4-deck standalone DJ controller. With its built-in Wi-Fi, 7" multi-gesture touchscreen, and 3 media slots, the SC LIVE 4 unleashes creative live performances using a combination of stored media and music streaming sources.

For on-the-fly creative mixing, the 8 Performance Pads on each deck can be used to control Hot Cue, Auto Loop, Manual Loop, Roll, Slicer, and Slicer Loop modes. The onboard effects include 4 Sweep FX which utilize a dedicated knob on each channel to expressively control FX and Filter combinations. The 13 BPM FX options can be customized for extra sonic satisfaction using the FX control section which includes a Channel Assignment knob, Time/Parameter control, FX level encoder, and illuminated engagement button.

Immersive All-In-One Audio Experience

The powerful, built-in speakers offer the perfect sound solution for livestreaming, practicing, content creation, and personal monitoring during live shows. The dedicated volume knob and on/off switch offers full control to meet the needs of any gig, making it easy for DJs to bring the booth with them wherever their career takes them.

Dynamic Lighting Integration

For enhanced performance visuals, the onboard Engine DJ operating system is fully integrated with Engine Lighting. A quick button press lets DJs instantly access automatic and pre-programmed, beat-synced light shows for songs stored on saved media as well as for streaming tracks. Full parameter controls over color, intensity, strobe, and more can be adjusted on the fly for jaw-dropping light shows using Phillips Hue, Nanoleaf, and DMX lighting.

The fully loaded, fully capable SC LIVE 4 represents the next generation of standalone DJ controllers and is sure to inspire a new era of musical freedom and creativity.

Technical Specs

Audio

Frequency Range: 20-20,000 Hz
Sampling Rate: 44.1 kHz
D/A Converter: 24 bit

Physical Unit

Dimensions (W x D x H): 28.3 x 15.9 x 3.9 Inches
Weight: 12.8 lb

Compatibility

Software

Engine DJ OS
SoundSwitch
Virtual DJ
Serato DJ

Hardware

Denon DJ LC6000 Performance Expansion Controller
SoundSwitch Micro USB to DMX Interface
SoundSwitch Control One Professional Lighting Controller

Onboard Internet Services
Amazon Music Unlimited
Beatport
Beatsource
Dropbox
SoundCloud GO+
TIDAL

Included Contents
Quick Start Guide
DC Power Supply
USB Cable
Display Cleaning Cloth
Safety & Warranty Manual

FAQ's


Do other Engine DJ products work with Amazon Music Unlimited?

No. A hardware change was needed in order to support this technology.

Does the SC LIVE 2/4 work with an Amazon Music Free or Amazon Music Prime account?

No. The SC LIVE 2/4 only supports Amazon Music Unlimited.

What audio quality does Amazon Music Unlimited support?

Amazon Music Unlimited offers 75 million tracks in lossless High Definition (HD) and millions more in Ultra High Definition (Ultra HD). HD tracks are 16-bit audio, with a minimum sample rate of 44.1 kHz (16/44.1 is also referred to as CD-quality), and an average bitrate of 850 kbps. Ultra HD tracks have a bit depth of 24 bits, with sample rates ranging from 44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz, and an average bitrate of 3730 kbps.

How many Amazon Unlimited tracks can I stream simultaneously?

Amazon Unlimited allows for up to two tracks to be streamed simultaneously. That includes tracks loaded to decks or previewed from the library.

Notes: Future Retro's unique modern take on vector synthesis takes full advantage of an impressive hybrid synth engine. Digital oscillators, ring modulation and complex envelopes meet a multi-mode analogue filter with paraphonic capabilities. Quirky and flexible.

Supplier's Notes:
The Vectra is a unique hybrid synthesizer with a flexible architecture that allows many different forms of synthesis to be realized. It's the best of both worlds... The Vectra utilizes digital oscillators, ring modulators, noise sources, vector mixer, LFO's, complex envelopes, and modulation routings providing many capabilities that would be very difficult to produce with analogue circuitry alone. This allows for accurate tuning, repeatability of complex patches, and patch storage. The Vectra also provides a multi-mode analogue filter, VCA, and final output, as these provide the best sonic qualities.

The Vectra includes a powerful and fun sequencer and arpeggiator, with many new capabilities. Although the Vectra is a self contained instrument, MIDI can be used to interface with other devices.

The Vectra provides four oscillators, white and pink noise sources, four ring modulators, a four-channel mixer, five LFO's, six morphing envelopes, six primary multimode analogue filter types, a main analogue VCA, and numerous internal modulation routings and VCA's controlling modulation amounts.

It really is like having a powerful self-contained semi-modular synthesizer with approximately 500 internal signal routings, and around 256 storable sound parameters.

The synthesizer architecture is designed to allow the greatest flexibility in recreating multiple synthesis techniques of the past while introducing several new innovations. The sound section has been inspired by features of the greatest synthesizers ever made, while not focusing specifically on recreating any instrument in particular. The Vectra is in fact it's own unique self-contained instrument.

The oscillators are digital as this provides the highest degree of tuning stability, while allowing both virtual analogue and digital waveform generations. With features like oscillator Sync, PWM, the new waveform Phase Slice, and Fade features, independent glide times per oscillator, constant beat detuning, and paraphonic voice modes, not to mention FM, AM, ring-modulation, and dedicated LFO's, envelopes, and VCA's per oscillator really make these oscillators a power house.
The four-channel mixer is unique in that it provides an even balance when mixing multiple sources, either manually with the joystick, or applying automated vector mixing, or mixer modulation.

The five LFO's provide 500+ waveforms to choose from, with their frequency spanning from sub-audio into the audio range. Their frequency can be stationary or track keyboard notes with glide. Waveforms can sync to any waveform phase at a note-on, and they can be frequency modulated as well. In short they can be used as LFO's, complex envelopes, or audio rate oscillators.

OSCILLATORS (1-4)
Frequency Range: <0.01 Hz to 20.00 kHz
Analogue Modelled Waveforms: Sine, Triangle, Sawtooth, Square, Pulse Width Modulated
Pulse Width Range: 1% to 99%
Pulse Width Modulation Sources: Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y,
LFO, Envelope
Digital Waveforms: 500
Number of Digital Waveforms per Oscillator: 2
Waveform Modulation Types: PWM, Slice, Fade
Waveform Start: 0 to 255 samples
Waveform Modulation Sources: Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y,
LFO, Envelope
Waveform Modulation Amount: 0 to 100
Octave Range: -7 to +5
Pitch Tuning: Semitones
Fine Tuning: 128 steps per semitone
Constant Beat Detuning: -/+5.00Hz
Paraphonic Modes: 8 total
Sync: Off/On, 0-360 degrees
Glide Time per Oscillator: 0ms to 14.7 seconds
Key Tracking: On/Off

OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY MODULATION (1-4)
Modulation 1 Source: LFO
Modulation 1 Control: Off, Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y, LFO,
Envelope
Modulation 2 Source: Envelope
Modulation 2 Control: Off, Randon1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y, LFO,
Envelope

Modulation 3: Randon1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y, Filter LFO, Filter Envelope, Amplifier Envelope

Total Modulation Range: 0.5 to 10 octaves
Individual Modulation Amounts: -99 to 100

LFO (1-4, Filter)
Analog Modelled Waveforms: Sine, Triangle, Ramp, Sawtooth, Square, Random
Digital Waveforms: 500
Waveform Start: 0 to 255 samples
Initial Frequency Range: 0.001 to 1001Hz (greater with key tracking and modulations)
Fine Tuning: 128 steps per semitone
Key Tracking: On/Off
Sync: Off/On, 0-360 degrees
Frequency Modulation Sources: Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y,
LFO, Envelope, Filter LFO
Total Modulation Range: 1 to 10 octaves
Modulation Amount: -99 to 100

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ENVELOPES (1-4, Filter, Amplifier)
Initial Envelope Stages: Delay, Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release, Repeat/Loop
Modulated Envelope Stages: Delay, Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release, Repeat/Loop
Normal Envelope Contours: 5
One-Shot Envelope Contours: 4
Looping: On/Off with repeat time
Envelope Times per Stage: 0ms to 14.7 seconds
Sustain Level: 0 to 100%
Key Sync: on/off (retriggering)
Attack Reset: Off/On
Time Modulation Sources: Off, Random1, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y

MIXER
Channels: 4
Audio Sources:
Oscillator (1-4)
Oscillator (1-4) controlled by Envelope (1-4)
Oscillator (1-4) controlled by LFO (1-4)
Ring-Modulation of Osc 1&2, Osc 2&3, Osc 3&4, Osc 4&1
White-Noise
White-Noise controlled by Envelope (1-4)
Pink-Noise
Pink-Noise controlled by Envelope (1-4)
Mixer Types: Manual, Envelope, One-Shot, Key-Synced, Free-Running, Modulated
Automix X:Y Location Stages: 4
Automix Stage Times: 0ms to 14.7 seconds
Mod Mix X:Y Location Stages: 2
Mod Mix Control Sources: Off, Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y,
LFO, Envelope
Mod Mix Sources: Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y, LFO, Envelope,
Filter Envelope
Mod Mix Amount: 0 to 100
Output Gain: 1.00x to 5.00x

ANALOG FILTER
Primary Filter Types: 4p low-pass, 2p low-pass, 1p low-pass, 2p band-pass, 2p high-pass, 2p notch
Filter Frequency Range: approximately 20 Hz to 20 kHz
Resonance: 0 to 100
Key Tracking: Off/On
Modulation 1 Source: LFO
Modulation 1 Control: Off, Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y, LFO-4,
Filter Envelope
Modulation 2 Source: Envelope
Modulation 2 Control: Off, Randon1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y, LFO-4,
Envelope-4
Modulation 3: Randon1/2, Key1, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-Wheel, Stick X/Y, DC+, Mix-1, Mix-2,
Mix-3, Mix-4, LFO-1, Env-1, Amplifier Envelope
Individual Modulation Amounts: -99 to 100
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ANALOGUE AMPLIFIER (see also Envelope parameters)
Additional Envelope Type: Drone

Envelope Amplitude Modulation Control: Off, Random1/2, Key1/2, Velocity, Aftertouch, Mod-
Wheel, Stick X/Y, LFO-4, Envelope-4

KEYBOARD / SEQUENCER
Keys: 29
Scales: 29
Linear Transpose: -12 to +16
Scale Transpose: -12 to +16 notes
Octave Reiterations: -3 to +3
Tempo: 10 to 250 BPM
Swing: 50% to 75%
Sequencer Modes: Play, Arpeggiate, Fill, Edit, Real-time, Auto
Max Steps per Sequence: 16
Sequencer Parts: Pitch, Velocity, Rhythm (Note-On/Off, Glide, Sustain)
Time Signatures: 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 6-4, 8-4
Directions: Down, Up/Down, Up, Random, (plus 25 complex directions)
Loop Point: 1 to 16 steps

MEMORY
Max Number of Sounds and Sequences: 999
Global Parameters Saved: Output level, MIDI Channel, Fine Tuning, Screen Saver Time, Last File

MIDI
Channels: 1-16
MIDI Messages Supported: Note-Pitch, Note-On/Off, Velocity, Aftertouch, Pitch-Bend, Mod-Wheel,
MIDI Sync: Clock, Start, Stop

OTHER
Input/output: 15V DC input, MIDI (IN/THRU/OUT), 1/4" unbalanced Audio Out
Unit Dimensions: (width) 18.25" x (depth) 11.0" x (height) 3.5"
Unit Weight: 5.0 lbs
Power: 15V DC (centre-pin positive) rated at 1 Amp current.

Notes: Keyboard version of Pittsburgh's superb Taiga synth, combining Moog-style East Coast elements with Buchla-inspired West Coast synthesis. Premium 37-key model with velocity, aftertouch and 24 HP expansion bay.

Supplier's Notes:
Modern Analogue Keyboard with Expansion Bay

Taiga Keyboard is an evolution of the award-winning Taiga synthesizer. Taiga gave users a boundary-smashing suite of unique modern Pittsburgh Modular analogue synthesizer innovations. Now in Taiga Keyboard, that same powerful suite of tools acts as a foundation in this expressive keyboard instrument.

Exploring the larger keyboard format, spreading controls out, and adding larger knobs makes sound sculpting while performing easier than ever. We've also added additional modulation sources, additional controls, a full-size 37 key premium aftertouch-enabled keybed, and a first-of-its-kind, modular expansion bay.

Taiga Keyboard oscillators

Waveforms generated by the three Taiga Keyboard oscillators stretch beyond the basic geometric shapes and sounds associated with analogue synthesis. Taiga Keyboard waveforms pass through up to three proprietary, cascading waveshapers designed to precisely manipulate their symmetry and harmonic content. In addition, each oscillator includes a robust six-stage wave folder to add even more complexity and depth to the diverse sonic palate of Taiga Keyboard. Dedicated coarse and fine controls deliver maximum flexibility & control over the full range of each oscillator.

The "Pittsburgh Filter"

The Pittsburgh filter has defined the sound of Pittsburgh Modular from the moment it was introduced. A signature gummy and relaxed sound with no dead spots that has been tweaked to perfection. It offers a warm, smooth sweep through the full frequency range and a sweet resonance that does not roll off the low end. This generation of the Pittsburgh filter is specifically designed to ensure a remarkable interplay with Taiga Keyboard's oscillators.

Pittsburgh Dynamics Controller

Pittsburgh's new Dynamics technology imparts Taiga Keyboard with a uniquely organic depth and presence. By simultaneously managing both amplitude and harmonic content, the Pittsburgh Dynamics Controller expands beyond the one-dimensional VCA found in other synthesizers. It does this by utilizing new advancements from traditional low pass gates to add additional definition and dimension to the voice of Taiga Keyboard.

When used in low pass gate mode, sounds shed harmonic content and become warmer as they decrease in volume. This mimics how sound waves react to their environment. Because of this connection, the Taiga Keyboard sounds more natural or complex compared to other instruments.

Analogue Echoes

Echos is a beautifully dark analogue delay tuned to enhance the source material by repeating it over and over. Echos utilizes a pair of bucket brigade delay chips to produce a classic voltage-controllable analogue delay effect that helps to place the sounds of Taiga Keyboard in a simulated environment.

Open Architecture

Taiga Keyboard has an internally defined signal path. Patch cables are not necessary to begin exploring. Attach a midi keyboard and plug the output into a speaker or DAW and Taiga Keyboard is ready to go with a robust but familiar workflow. When your ideas grow beyond the pre-defined signal path, a 64 point patch bay opens up a fully modular instrument with access to an even deeper set of features and tools.

Modular Expansion Bay

Staying true to our modular roots, we've added a 24hp powered eurorack Modular Expansion Bay that lets you personalize your Taiga Keyboard to your sound and performance needs. Simply remove the metal plate that covers the bay and add eurorack compatible modules. The modular bay helps you make Taiga Keyboard's sound completely your own.

Complete Set of Modular Tools

Taiga Keyboard includes a host of fully modular, analogue, and digital synthesis tools to support and enhance its core functionality. Analog tools include a flexible dual mixer, a pair of plucky four-stage envelope generators, noise, and sample and hold. Digital tools cover external MIDI, arpeggiator, clock sync'd modulation tools, and a robust collection of random generators. The Taiga Keyboard toolset is deep enough for any type of sonic exploration.

Keybed and additional MIDI control

Taiga Keyboard as its name would suggest, has an integrated 37 key keyboard with aftertouch, as well as pitch bend and modwheel. The keyboard can be used as a separate USB / Din MIDI controller using the Local On/Off modes.


Taiga Keyboard's key range can be easily changed using the dedicated octave up and down buttons that are located adjacent to the pitch bend and modwheel.

Taiga Keyboard features and other info:

Paraphonic synthesizer with unique additive elements
37 note aftertouch equipped keybed with full-sized keys
Fully patchable - use Taiga Keyboard's components as separate modules with external devices or reroute its internal patching.
24hp powered Eurorack Modular Expansion Bay
64 point patch bay for rerouting internal signal flow and integrating external sound and modulation sources
Controllable via MIDI, CV, and integrated pseudo random sequencing mode

Notes: TERRA is a new SOMA Labs synth.

TERRA is a highly conceptual device. The core idea is unity of nature and technology, and a perfect balance between simplicity and versatility. Behind the extremely simple interface hides a complex polyphonic, microtonal synthesizer with a broad and flexible sound palette that ranges from classical beautiful tones to complex atonal noise, and offers smooth and fast transitions between these extremes.

The innovative keyboard design invites new playing techniques and covers the full range of a grand piano with the possibility to tune each note with an accuracy of 125 steps per semitone. To achieve this range with such a simple keyboard we designed a unique system of pitch shifting using four additional sensors. Pressing different combinations of them will result in 16 variations of keyboard transposing, including up to 3 octaves up and down, fifth, fourth, third, tone etc.

Not only do you get the full range of a grand piano in a very compact design, TERRA also offers an entirely new and different approach to playing melodies and chords.

The keyboard consists of 12-note sensors with velocity and pressure sensitivity allowing for the manual creation of slow attack and vibrato, 4 dynamic sensors for timbre modification and control, 4 pitch-shifting sensors and 2 hold sensors for holding the state of the timbre and note sensors.

Inside TERRA there is a three-axis motion sensor for creating a variety of different modulations by simple intuitive movements of your hands and body.

TERRA is digital and contains 32 complex synthesis algorithms. Each algorithm has been carefully designed to be a complete and flexible musical instrument on its own, ready for learning and playing in its own unique way. The goal is to free the musician from long exhausting programming, setting hundreds of parameters for creating one timbre, and instead putting the focus directly on music and performance and following your imagination and inspiration.

TERRA offers the best of both worlds: the direct intuitive tactile connection from acoustic instruments and the flexibility and versatility of synthesizers. TERRA inherits design principles from LYRA-8 and also contains application of the new principles that were announced for ReFLEX, exploring the future of synthesis.

TERRA has an extremely simple interface that gives you instant access to all its functions in several touches, including saving and loading the 96 presets that are stored directly on the playing sensors. TERRA has no display. Instead it shows and lets you dial all necessary data on the 6 LED-sensor triangle in the centre.

TERRA has a built-in FX processor so the stereo output is ready to use, making it a perfect stand-alone performance instrument. While the sound generation is digital, TERRA has a unique custom-built and top quality analogue part that makes it sound rich, natural, clear and powerful at the same time.

The housing of TERRA comes from a solid piece of wood, making each instrument unique and slightly different. In the photo above and in the announcement demo video you can see the prototype of the synth. The final design is in development and we intend to make several different versions.

TERRA is a sanctuary for a natural soul right in the middle of the rumbling plastic world, a ground where you can breathe in and out slowly, and hold on to your roots.

TERRA is our dream about a bright future where we will be both technologically advanced and more connected to nature, where machines and technology are not a prison for our feelings and spirit but their extension.

Synthesis algorithms: 32
Polyphony: 1-12 voices (depending on the algorithm)
Presets: 96
Pitch Shifter presets: 24
Line out: L, R TS/TRS 1/4-inch jacks / 6.35 mm jacks
Maximum line output signal: 13 V peak-to-peak
Nominal line output signal: ~1.5 V (volume 100%)
Headphone output: TRS 1/4 inch jack / 6.35 mm jacks
Headphones impedance: 6-64 ohm
CV-clock input voltage: 3-15 V
Power supply voltage: DC 12 V *
Consumption current: 0.2 A
DC jack: 5.5 x 2.1 mm, "+" in center
Dimensions: 405 x 365 x 57 mm
Weight: 2.2 kg
* TERRA comes with a high quality power supply . If it gets lost, use a high-quality modern switched-mode power supply with 12 V output voltage, at least 0.4 A maximum current, 5.5 x 2.1 mm DC jack, center "+".

What's included:

TERRA - 1 pc.
Power supply - 1 pc.
CV clock adapter (DIN5 - 3.5 mm mini-jack) - 1pc.
Short interface reference manual - 1 pc.
On-table mounting pads - 4 pcs.

Notes: The kind of instrument Soma Labs do so well: weird but wonderful. Based around 32 complex digital synth algorithms and 12 note velocity- and pressure-sensitive sensors, transposition techniques allow you to play the full range of a grand piano.

Supplier's Notes:
TERRA is a new SOMA Labs synth.

TERRA is a highly conceptual device. The core idea is unity of nature and technology, and a perfect balance between simplicity and versatility. Behind the extremely simple interface hides a complex polyphonic, microtonal synthesizer with a broad and flexible sound palette that ranges from classical beautiful tones to complex atonal noise, and offers smooth and fast transitions between these extremes.

The innovative keyboard design invites new playing techniques and covers the full range of a grand piano with the possibility to tune each note with an accuracy of 125 steps per semitone. To achieve this range with such a simple keyboard we designed a unique system of pitch shifting using four additional sensors. Pressing different combinations of them will result in 16 variations of keyboard transposing, including up to 3 octaves up and down, fifth, fourth, third, tone etc.

Not only do you get the full range of a grand piano in a very compact design, TERRA also offers an entirely new and different approach to playing melodies and chords.

The keyboard consists of 12-note sensors with velocity and pressure sensitivity allowing for the manual creation of slow attack and vibrato, 4 dynamic sensors for timbre modification and control, 4 pitch-shifting sensors and 2 hold sensors for holding the state of the timbre and note sensors.

Inside TERRA there is a three-axis motion sensor for creating a variety of different modulations by simple intuitive movements of your hands and body.

TERRA is digital and contains 32 complex synthesis algorithms. Each algorithm has been carefully designed to be a complete and flexible musical instrument on its own, ready for learning and playing in its own unique way. The goal is to free the musician from long exhausting programming, setting hundreds of parameters for creating one timbre, and instead putting the focus directly on music and performance and following your imagination and inspiration.

TERRA offers the best of both worlds: the direct intuitive tactile connection from acoustic instruments and the flexibility and versatility of synthesizers. TERRA inherits design principles from LYRA-8 and also contains application of the new principles that were announced for ReFLEX, exploring the future of synthesis.

TERRA has an extremely simple interface that gives you instant access to all its functions in several touches, including saving and loading the 96 presets that are stored directly on the playing sensors. TERRA has no display. Instead it shows and lets you dial all necessary data on the 6 LED-sensor triangle in the centre.

TERRA has a built-in FX processor so the stereo output is ready to use, making it a perfect stand-alone performance instrument. While the sound generation is digital, TERRA has a unique custom-built and top quality analogue part that makes it sound rich, natural, clear and powerful at the same time.

The housing of TERRA comes from a solid piece of wood, making each instrument unique and slightly different. In the photo above and in the announcement demo video you can see the prototype of the synth. The final design is in development and we intend to make several different versions.

TERRA is a sanctuary for a natural soul right in the middle of the rumbling plastic world, a ground where you can breathe in and out slowly, and hold on to your roots.

TERRA is our dream about a bright future where we will be both technologically advanced and more connected to nature, where machines and technology are not a prison for our feelings and spirit but their extension.

Synthesis algorithms: 32
Polyphony: 1-12 voices (depending on the algorithm)
Presets: 96
Pitch Shifter presets: 24
Line out: L, R TS/TRS 1/4-inch jacks / 6.35 mm jacks
Maximum line output signal: 13 V peak-to-peak
Nominal line output signal: ~1.5 V (volume 100%)
Headphone output: TRS 1/4 inch jack / 6.35 mm jacks
Headphones impedance: 6-64 ohm
CV-clock input voltage: 3-15 V
Power supply voltage: DC 12 V *
Consumption current: 0.2 A
DC jack: 5.5 x 2.1 mm, "+" in center
Dimensions: 405 x 365 x 57 mm
Weight: 2.2 kg
* TERRA comes with a high quality power supply . If it gets lost, use a high-quality modern switched-mode power supply with 12 V output voltage, at least 0.4 A maximum current, 5.5 x 2.1 mm DC jack, center "+".

What's included:

TERRA - 1 pc.
Power supply - 1 pc.
CV clock adapter (DIN5 - 3.5 mm mini-jack) - 1pc.
Short interface reference manual - 1 pc.
On-table mounting pads - 4 pcs.