Trails is a polyphonic touch recorder that puts the control of music under your fingertips. It allows melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and control elements to be composed simultaneously through gesture and shape. These gestures can be transformed in space and time, intuitively generating contrapuntal and polyrhythmic relationships across four channels.
Trails outputs both control voltage and MIDI, enabling it to control a wide range of Eurorack modules as well as hardware and software instruments. Gestures can be stored across 16 scenes for recall and live performance, and used either as smooth, continuous signals or quantised to produce melodic and tempo-synced material.
Features
- Core
- Record gestures of up to 40 seconds across four channels
- Simultaneously generate melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and control elements
- Control Eurorack systems and MIDI-compatible hardware or software
- Per channel: two touch-controlled CV outputs (X and Y) plus a gate output
- Fully customisable voltage ranges for all CV and gate outputs
- Per channel: one CV input for modulation and reset
- Gesture recording & playback
- Record gestures individually or across multiple channels
- Quantise CV and gate signals for melodic, tempo-synced output
- Dynamically offset the playback of gestures against one another
- Touch control of gesture playback position, speed, and loop points
- Divide and multiply incoming clocks
- Transformation & smoothing
- Transform recorded gestures using rotation, pinch, and offset
- Non-destructively record and undo all transformations
- Filter and smooth gestures to suspend motion in time
- Macros & scenes
- Interpolate between eight banks of eight touch faders
- Control eight parameters at once using a single macro fader
- Store and recall up to 16 scenes
- Ergonomics & layout
- Outputs housed on a separate panel for flexible placement
- Includes a 1U panel for optimised ergonomics in your case
Power: +12V 340mA / -12V 0mA
