Frequency Central Trans Europa

NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM FREQUENCY CENTRAL

THESE KITS DO NOT INCLUDE A PCB OR PANEL. IF YOU ARE ADEPT AT MAKING PCBS AND PANELS YOURSELF THIS COULD BE A VERY GOOD VALUE!

10HP Eurorack DIY Kit

Full kit for rick holt's cv processor/generator collaboration with electric druid

Everything you need including individually bagged and labelled components

Build guide is here: trans europa

Trans Europa is a CV processor/generator module with a number of unique features:

• Octave switching over 9 octaves
• Voltage controlled octave switching, CV input is bipolar +/-5V
• Semitone transposition over 1 octave
• Voltage controlled semitone transposition, CV input is bipolar +/-5V
• 8 Modes (see below)
• Glide feature, which can be applied either manually or by external gate.
• CV thru, you can patch a 1V/oct voltage source in Trans Europa’s Input, it will be replicated at the Output, with the benefit that all Trans Europa’s features can be applied.

Although both CV inputs are bipolar +/-5V, they will also operate well from 0V to 5V CV sources, courtesy of the cunning way in which the input data is interpreted by Trans Europa. CV inputs are not 1V/oct, as Trans Europa was designed as a transposer rather than a quantiser (see ‘Backstory’). For example, in Mode 1 (Semitones), 0V to +5V CV input will allow transpositions over 13 semitones, -5V to +5V will allow transpositions over 25 semitones, in both cases 0V corresponds to no transposition.

8 Modes are available:

• Semitones
• Minor 7th
• Major 7th
• Rick’s Chord
• First Fourth Fifth
• Diminished
• Sustained A
• Sustained B

By applying control voltages to the Transpose CV input, arpeggios and tuned pseudo-random sequences can be achieved based upon the Mode selected, further enhancements can then be made by modulating the Octave CV input. Suitable input devices are wheels, joysticks, touch pads, FSRs, ribbons, LFOs, ADSRs, S/H etc.