Meet the lovely Samarkanda – a monster of a delay with unlimited potential
Xaoc Devices Samarkanda is a digital quad delay module with extensive patching capabilities and a lot of flexibility for signal mangling. It can be used as four entirely independent delays, a dual stereo delay, a complex/multi-tap or multi-channel delay, a quad/polyphonic resonator, dual chorus, dual flanger, reverb, looper (with sound on sound!), and granulator, or any combination of those. You can reverse the delayed signal, hold it, squeeze and stretch it beyond all recognition and still go back to the original piece of audio captured in the buffer! The internal lossless normalisation (the signal doesn’t leave the digital domain) combined with top-notch components (including 24-bit AKM converters and 32-bit internal processing) are responsible for high sound quality.
Samarkanda has been conceived in the truly modular spirit. Not only can you control almost all its features remotely with CV/gates, but the external feedback path gives you the opportunity to process the delayed signal with other modules.
Features
- Quadruple resampling delay
- Lossless chaining of sections
- Delay range of 0.5ms to 15 seconds per channel for a total of 60 seconds when stacked
- Analog (tape-like) and digital (granular) sweep behaviours
- Continuous, synced, and tap-tempo operation
- Clock division and multiplication from 1:8 to 8:1
- Buffer freezing and 1V/oct loop playback control
- Reverse delay effect
- Multiple options for coupling channels
Specifications
- Width: 42hp
- Depth: 40mm
- Power: +12V 230mA / -12V 90mA
