Effects units

Notes: The legendary Kaoss Pad returns as part of Korg's DIY Nu:Tekt range. Simple to build, easy to use and infinitely customisable for those who want to go deep. Great value.

Supplier's Notes:
Build your KAOSS

Discover the Nu:Tekt NTS-3 KAOSS Pad: the iconic KAOSS Pad reimagined in a build-it-yourself format. This compact, customizable DIY effects unit integrates Korg's legendary KAOSS touch interface with up to 4 simultaneous effects. It offers intuitive controls, extensive effect customization via logueSDK, and versatile connectivity. Perfect for dynamic performances, it's designed for musicians and DIY enthusiasts seeking to explore new sonic territories with ease and creativity.

Build-it-yourself creativity

The NTS-3 KAOSS Pad goes beyond the boundaries of conventional effects units. It's a playground for creativity, offering up to four simultaneous effects with extensive editing options. From essential filters and compressors to imaginative delays and reverbs, the NTS-3 KAOSS Pad opens up a universe of creative possibilities. The ability to work with individual effects or combine them seamlessly, along with the freedom to tweak each parameter, makes it a perfect tool for live performances and studio sessions alike.

Embracing the essence of KAOSS products, the NTS-3 KAOSS Pad features user-friendly controls and adaptable connectivity, packaged in a performance-ready design. The XY pad is at the heart of its interface, enabling dynamic control over effects, rhythm, and depth, enhancing your performance with a fresh, tactile approach.

Customise the KAOSS

The NTS-3 KAOSS Pad isn't just about sound; it's about making your mark. With an open development API and logueSDK, you can dive into creating unique effects, while the included Librarian application allows for easy management of your custom creations. The physical customization options, including reversible side panels and 3D schematics, mean you can even add a personal touch to your performance hardware.

Seamless integration and effortless DIY assembly
The Nu:Tekt NTS-3 KAOSS Pad is meticulously designed for straightforward integration into any musical setup, offering advanced connectivity with Sync IN/OUT and MIDI In/Out ports. But what truly sets it apart is its effortless DIY assembly process. Emphasizing the joy of building your own gear, the NTS-3 can be assembled quickly and safely, with no soldering required. This ease of assembly ensures that you can start exploring its vast sonic possibilities in less than 20 minutes, making it a delight for both seasoned musicians and DIY beginners.

Specifications

Effect: 35
Filter: 5
Modulation: 6
Delay: 4
Reverb: 5
Other: 5 (looper, grainshifter, vinyl break)
Mastering: 7
OSC: 3
Performance programs: 200 programs (more than 100 preload, 100 user programs)

Input/output jacks:

Headphone / AUDIO OUT jack (3.5 mm stereo mini-phone jack), AUDIO IN jack (3.5 mm stereo mini-phone jack), SYNC OUT jack (3.5 mm TRS mini-phone jack, 5V output level), SYNC IN jack (3.5 mm TRS mini-phone jack, 20V maximum input level), USB port (Type-C),

Power supply: USB bus power mode
Current consumption: 500 mA or less
Dimensions (W × D × H): 104 × 101 × 39 mm
Weight: 119 g/4.20 oz

Notes: Developed in conjunction with Dutch software dons 112dB, the Echolocator brings precise, ultra-controllable delay to the hardware realm. Full stereo design with filter and shimmer modes, freeze function and foot switch input.

Supplier's Notes:
The Echolocator is a hands-on precision tool that lets you take manual and very musical control over small nuances. Like a bat navigating its environment in the dark, you can feel your way through your live performances and shape the delay response and character on the fly. Featuring 12 parameters for detailed sound design, save/recall functions for all parameters, MIDI control over all parameters and a sleek aluminium case to match our lineup of compact desktop units, the Echolocator will let your setup take flight in any live show, studio or sonic experiment.

Notes: A quirky new offering from Moog, this unusual analogue spectral processor is based around a bank of 10 filters, capable of being used as an instrument in its own right or processing other signals for vocoder effects and much more.

Supplier's Notes:
Spectravox, the newest member of the Moog semi-modular family, is a groundbreaking tool for sculpting sound. An analog spectral processor based around a 10-band filter bank, Spectravox creates lively drones and colorful tonal sweeps on its own and adds resonant depth and psychedelic spectral movement to any external sound. Hook up a microphone and Spectravox becomes a 10-band analog vocoder with innovative integrated modulation of all of its filters. An exploration and expansion of the topology of the vocoder and filter bank, Spectravox is a highly flexible instrument and signal processor with a comprehensive patch bay for integration into studios of all sizes.

Synthesists have delighted in playing with the spectrum of sound since the Moog 907 Fixed Filter Bank appeared in the 1960s, creating lush vowel tones and multicolored timbral animation with hands-on level control of each frequency band of a sound. Unlike earlier fixed filter banks, however, the unique filters of Spectravox are no longer fixed in place and will jointly shift around the frequency space, allowing for the creation of otherworldly voltage-controlled spectral animation and vibrant phaser-like sweeps. With 10 filters whose variable resonance can morph from soft precision to shimmering choral effects, Spectravox reshapes the sounds you love into surprising new forms and brings a new world of sonic possibilities to your studio.

Spectravox is a fascinating standalone sculptable synthesizer voice thanks to its built-in carrier sound source of a thick analog Moog oscillator and white noise generator. With its combo XLR/jack program input, Spectravox becomes a fully featured 10-band vocoder with a secondary filter bank for analyzing the spectral makeup of incoming sounds. In VOCODER mode its 10 analysis filters map the timbral characteristics of any external sound onto any other sound you can imagine. Shape the warm analog oscillator of Spectravox with the dynamics of your voice, or use a drum machine to animate guitar chords in a mesmerizing broadband percussive space.

Spectravox uses the pioneering vocoding work of Bob Moog and Wendy Carlos in the late 1960s as its inspiration-work which was based on Homer Dudley's original designs from the 1930s and which was used to prominent effect in Stanley Kubrick's 1972 film A Clockwork Orange. Innovating further from these early designs, Spectravox uses 10 state-variable filters for its filter bank, all 10 of which are capable of being shifted with its internal triangle wave LFO or external control voltage. With the ability to emphasize vowel sounds via the Hiss and Buzz functionality of the Moog 16 Channel Vocoder, Spectravox is both a major step forward for analog filter banks and a loving exploration of early music technology history.

Scramble the frequency spectrum and create wonderfully unpredictable textures with patch points for each filter in the filter bank and included patch cables. Add analog warmth and subtle phasing to digital synthesizers and sound sources. Integrate Spectravox with other Moog semi-modular instruments or Eurorack modules with an extensive patch bay providing control over almost all of its parameters. Spectravox is a boundary-pushing instrument that invites you to explore creative new ways of shaping and sculpting sound.

Specifications

Analogue Sound Engine

Sound Source: VCO, White Noise Generator
Filter: 10x variable resonance voltage-controlled filters: 1 Low-Pass Filter, 8 Bandpass Filters, 1 High-pass Filters
Envelope: VCA EG (Decay)

Analysis Engine Sources

Sources: Ext. Input via 1/4" / XLR combo jack or 3.5mm jack with preamplifier.
XLR input supports dynamic mics. Condenser mics may require external 48V power.

Patchbay

Jacks: 36 x 3.5mm
Inputs: 19 Input Jacks
Outputs: 17 Output Jacks

Rear Panel

Audio: 1?4" TRS Headphone or 1?4" TS Instrument
Power: Power supply connection
Security: Kensington lock slot

Power Supply (Included)

Power Supply: Style: wall adapter; barrel connection; centre-pin positive
Input: 100 - 240VAC; 50 Hz - 60 Hz
Output: +12VDC; 2.0A

Power Consumption

Typical: 4.8 Watts

Eurorack Specs

Current Draw: 450mA (maximum) from +12VDC (10-pin header)
Mounting Dims: 60HP (1.5" Module Depth)

In the box

Spectravox Analogue Synthesizer
Power Supply
Quickstart Guide
Product Poster
Preset Overlays
Patch Cables (5x 12")

Weights & dimensions

Product only
Weight (lbs): 3.1 lbs
Weight (kg): 1.5 kg
Imperial (in): 12.84" W x 5.64" D x 4.2" H
Metric (cm): 32.61 W x 14.33 D x 10.67 H

Product in box
Weight (lbs): 5.29 lbs
Weight (kg): 2.4 kg
Imperial (in): 14.16" W x 8.16" D x 6.6" H
Metric (cm): 35.97 W x 20.73 D x 16.76 H

Notes: Compact acid sound with flexible application possibilities.

Inspired by the look of the classic TB-303, the mother of all bass synthesizers, the DT-303 from Dtronics offers a distinctive and original design.

It is designed to fit perfectly next to an original TB-303 or a clone.

Three adjustable blends with subtle frequency spectrum variations allow distortion levels from very subtle to total distortion. The filter can be used to suppress high frequencies and the volume control can be used to adjust the output level to your own needs.

The three modes, Classic, Turbo and O Drive, can be quickly changed using three buttons, while the bypass knob allows you to quickly return to the original sound. The positioning of the connections (Line In, Line Out, Power) on the back prevents a tangled mess of cables on the instruments.

DT-303 not only works in combination with TB-303 and RE-303, but also with other synthesizers and drum machines. The robust metal housing, its low weight and its compact size make it easy to transport and flexible to use.

Notes: An interesting creative take on delay from Lorre Mill. The Comb Room combines echo and filtering to create reverb and resonant feedback effects. Banana plug patch points allow you to tweak the signal routing.

Supplier's Notes:
Comb Room

The comb room effect combines a dual delay (room circuit) and a comb filter to make echo/reverb-type sounds and resonant feedback. The comb filter is in the feedback path of the delays. An envelope follower gives movement to either the comb filter or the room circuit. The comb resonance control in conjunction with the comb return control can create self oscillation. The preamp for the 1/4" input has selectable gain of 10x or 40x and a soft clipping characteristic. The comb and room circuits are both built around 1 bit delta-sigma converters. In the case of the delays, the analog to digital conversion is done in the PT2399 echo IC. The comb filter uses a simple and gritty A/D converter built of logic chips and op-amps. Which gives the filter a characteristic sound. Clock noise can be heard at lower frequency settings. Patching the room output to the return will bypass feedback through the filter, allowing all frequencies to echo.

Specs

Banana Patch Points
Banana CV inputs max voltage +/- 8v.
Banana Signal Inputs and Outputs are AC Coupled.

Audio Inputs
1/4" TS instrument input, gain of 2x or 12x
1/8" TRS line input summed to mono

Power Input
standard 12v DC 5.5mm x 2.1mm supplying at least 500mA of current

Audio Outputs
1/4" TS line or intstrument output (selected with push-pin switch)
1/8" TRS line output dual mono