Emute Lab Myriad Eurorack Pataphonic Bitwave Multi-Oscillator

Myriad: a stereo eurorack multi-oscillator, with flexible modulation, powerful meta-modulation systems, and novel hybrid analogue/digital sounds synthesis.

Myriad is a pataphonic oscillator.

If pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions and exceptions to the norm, then pataphonics explores the contrast between everyday music making and the surreal, abstract and maybe absurd edges of sound synthesis. Just like pataphysics accepts that contradictions can simultaneously be true, Myriad can seem as a conventional oscillator, but also veer away into wildly unconventional textural sounds and experimental modulations.

With flexible mixes of sound sources and dynamic meta-modulation systems, Myriad allows for flexible mixes of sound sources and dynamic meta-modulation systems. This encourages the musician to reimagine the role of an oscillator by working across layered and shifting tonal textures, as well as creating wide discordant soundscapes and morphing melodic sequences.

Myriad is also paraphonic, with multiple oscillators summing to the same signal path

Features

• 12 oscillator models using Bitwave Synthesis
• 9 detunable oscillators (organised in 3 banks of 3, around 1700 combinations)
• Two types of output: clean, or shaped, using analog waveshaping and overdrive
• Stereo outputs for both clean and shaped sounds.
• Built-in VCA
• Adjustable CV control of pitch, spread, octave interval, VCA and epsilon (a parameter that controls something different in each oscillator model)
• 7 metamodulators – lively algorithmic modulation systems that influence the oscillator models
• Colour TFT screen
• Overdrive LEDs visible through the front panel
• Precise digital tuning
• Hackable open-source design – both hardware and software