Shift cycles to the next splice when pressed.Splice creates a new splice in the reel when pressed.The Record button starts and stops recording.Instead, it uses buttons and combinations to access its useful secondary functions and modes. Morphagene doesn’t have any cumbersome menus to dive through. The shift button also moves playback to the next splice after the current one has finished playing. Splices are color-coded and the current splice’s color is displayed on the splice window below the Organize knob. Organize selects which splice is currently being played back. Morph can also perform synchronized time-stretching when a clock signal is patched into the clock input. This is a great control for adding chaos and variety to looping genes. Pushing the control even further, it begins to behave more strangely, with multiple genes playing back together, randomly panning, and even shifting octaves. As the knob is turned clockwise, the genes play back closer together, eventually even overlapping. When morph is fully counterclockwise, there is a slight pause between each loop of the gene. Morph is perhaps the most drastic of the panel controls it affects the spacing of the genes as they play back. Once a gene is smaller than the whole splice, it can be slid to start at different positions inside the splice. Slide does not do anything when gene size is set fully counterclockwise, as the gene is the same size as the splice and thus cannot move. Slide works hand-in-hand with gene size, as it controls the position in a splice that the gene begins playing. Turning the control clockwise, the gene gets smaller until it reaches granular or microsound territory. When fully counterclockwise, the gene is the full length of the splice. ![]() Gene size alters the length of a gene, the pat of a splice that plays back. The rest of the panel controls add more variation and extravagance to sounds. ![]() This control is where the real magic of Morphagene comes in being able to slow, speed up, or reverse the playback of a sound can create drastically different sounds and unlock new sonic worlds.Īltering sound with this control can result in huge pads, ambient drones, or even crazy experimental noise. The knob at the center of Morphagene enclosed by two eye-catching LED windows is Vari-Speed, which controls the speed and direction of playback for reels. This control also determines what is recorded when overdubbing a reel, making it very helpful for creating interesting layering. Changes to the other parameters like vari-speed and morph can be heard when SOS is clockwise. This is useful for monitoring what is about to be recorded into a reel.Īs the knob is turned clockwise you begin to hear the current reel playing back. Turned fully counterclockwise, any incoming signal is heard full volume without any effect. This knob at the top of the panel controls what you hear from Morphagene. With some practice, these concepts become second nature when using the module. If all this seems a little complex, don’t worry! Morphagene is laid out in such a way that getting started is easy after you know what all of the controls can do. The Morph knob controls the playback and overlapping of genes, hence the name: Morphagene! By default, a gene takes up a whole splice, but the Gene Size knob determines how long a gene is relative to the whole splice. Splices loop automatically, which makes Morphagene a simple and effective looper as well. Splices are created by pressing the splice button, which divides the reel at the point in the audio when it is pressed. They can be the length of the whole reel or multiple subsections of it. Reels can be recorded directly into the module or prepared on a computer and uploaded with the included SD card (more on that process later). ![]() Reels are the largest sections of audio that Morgphagene works with, they can be up to 2.9 minutes long. ![]() Knowing how each of these segments of audio work is crucial to understanding the unit’s operation. The module divides this parameter into 3 classes reels, splices, and genes. As a “tape and microsound” machine, Morphagene works on different levels in regard to the scale and time of audio it samples or plays back.
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