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Touch Controller Overview
The Touch Controller enables artists to blend traditional pitched performances with the freedom to openly experiment,
creating a flexible playground for music creation. The Touch Controller provides a wide range of sequencing tools, which
can be used to generate both quantized and unquantized control voltages, for a wide range of expressive musical
possibilities.
The Touch Controller houses two independent channels, red and yellow, each functioning as either an expressive pressure
sensitive touch keyboard, or as a deep, experimental, step sequencer.
When used as a touch keyboard, the capacitive touch pads can be played live, generating notes either in a scale like a
piano, or with a custom scale controlled by the pitch knobs.
When used as a step sequencer, each channel of the Touch Controller offers step conditions, jumps, chance effects,
generative sequencing, and a host of other tools that allow musicians to both create and interact with complex systems.
Or both at the same time! Using one channel as a sequencer while using the other as a keyboard enables a musician to
play along to sequenced grooves. Or use both as a sequencer, and play sequenced grooves against each other. Or use
both as a touch keyboard and lay out your own expressive paraphonic harmony controller. Or even explore some of the
strange experimental live sequencing options that live in between these!
The options are wide, and the channel independence gives you control of a lot!
Both red and yellow channels share the blue CV channel knobs, but have their own independent outputs controlled by
those knobs. The CV channel outputs generate a gate with variable length, an envelope with variable decay time, and an
unquantized CV value with variable voltage. The state of each channel’s dedicated CV channel outputs are determined
by the channel's selected step or keyboard press and the position of the blue knob associated with that step.
Along with a host of random sequencing and generation tools, the touch controller provides a lot to learn and experiment
with, allowing a musician to grow and learn with the instrument. Getting started with the Touch Controller is easy and
intuitive, with a standard 16-step sequencer, but gives the musician room to go deep and bring in new features over time as
you collect knowledge and learn all the components of the interface.
The Touch Controller 2 and Voltage Lab 2 Voice sections are fully independent.
Patch cables are needed to connect the Touch Controller to the Voice Modules.
4 Voltage Lab 2 Touch Controller
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