Jolin Lab GETREKT signal squarifier

GETREKT is a full analogue waveshaper – an aggressive one.



why:

• To add saturation and harmonics.

• To disrupt – folding - and cut into pieces - clipping.

• To generate square waves from other control voltage signals or audio sources.

• To invert the polarity of a trigger or other kind of pulses.



with:

• Sine waves – hear them scream.

• Human voices – fracture them in pieces with clipping as a good ol’ broken tape would do.

• Complex audio sources – to control and flatten them.

• Envelopes going to a drum module – rectify or fold that decay tail.



how:

Fed an input – audio or CV – into and take the processed output from The circuit is designed to invert the polarity of any given input.

“Disrupt and Pieces are analog touch controls; they act like potentiometers and they keep the value once the finger is lifted from the surface.

As it takes time to turn a pot, it takes time to interact with these controls:

bridge with your finger the first line and the center III to decrease the value or the center and the last one III to increment. A red and a blue LEDs will light up to give visual feedback of the position of the control.

This is a full analogue continuous control, designed to be an expressive and interactive gateway to decrease the boundaries between the user, the environment and the music-making-devices.”

DISRUPT: controls how much the output is affected by the waveshaper circuit. At maximum it will fold and create a total harmonic distortion.

PIECES: the pulse width of the resulting transformed wave.

Both parameters have a dedicated reactive CV input. If connected, the touch potentiometer act as an offset of the incoming signal.



features:

• Clipping and folding analog waveshaper circuit.

• Touch Controls on the amount of effect and PWM.

• Reactive CV inputs on both parameters.

• Inverts the polarity of any given input.

• Works with audio and CV sources.

• Single board design – extremely skiff friendly.

• “Whatever” power connector a.k.a. don’t mind the polarity.



specs:

• current draw ⇒ +12V 35ma, -12V 30ma

• dimensions

⇒ width 4HP, depth 18mm