ADDAC405 VC RELABI GENERATOR USER’S GUIDE
October.2020Revision.01
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DESCRIPTION
In 2009 John Berndt coined and defined the term Relabi
in his essay “Relabi”: Patterns of Self-Erasing Pulse, these are his own
words: “Relabi, Def.: The experience of a palpably coordinated plurali-
ty of events that appears to be cyclical but simultaneously suspends
identification of a uniform pattern, preventing a resolved sense of
pulse. Relabi therefore seems equally pulsed and unpulsed at the
same time. It is an experiential gestalt, a quality of experience,
greater than the sum of its parts (it forms a sustained unity in
experience, albeit of a new kind).”
He also makes the question: “Why would anyone want this Relabi
experience? I maintain that much of what is exciting in musical
forms involves an interplay between the setting up and denying of
pulse expectations.”
Inspired by this idea we developed this module that is both a
gate/trigger and cv generator that can be freely used to trigger
events or act as a complex modulation source.
Four Sine LFOs are internally generated, each has controls for gain,
frequency and mute(off). These 4 LFOs are then mixed together to
generate what Berndt named the “Relabi Wave” this “wave” becomes
a complex bipolar CV source. This ±5v bipolar “wave” can be moni-
tored on the 2 dedicated leds and is also available at it’s own Output.
Secondary LFOs Functions:
All secondary function can be changed by fastly toggling the switch
from the the Up position (FREQ.) to the Middle position (OFF) and
back to the Up position, to monitor this change the Trigger Button Led
will blink once for the Left Function and twice for the right function
(INT/EXT & FREE/LOCK1).
LFO1 INT/EXT:
- Left function INT sets the LFO as an INTernal LFO, in this case the
CV input will change the Frequency or Gain depending on the switch
position.
- Right function EXT sets the CV input to be a direct CV input into the
LFOs mix, this CV input will then be mixed with the remaining active
LFOs to create the “Relabi Wave”. In this setting the Gain switch
position has no effect as the CV can already be attenuated by the
dedicated attenuverter.
LFO2, 3 & 4 FREE/LOCK1:
- Left function FREE sets each LFO to be independent from LFO1.
- Right function LOCK1 sets each LFO to be locked to the LFO1
frequency, in this case the Frequency setting will operate as a
divider/multiplier of LFO1 (1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1/1.5, 1/1.33333,
1*1.25, 1*1.333333f, 1*1.5, 1*1.75, 1*2, 1*3, 1*4, 1*5, 1*6, 1*7, 1*8).
