Puremagnetik Etches: Soundscape Palette

Etches is layered soundscape synthesizer. It's palette for playing with sound, sketching melodic sections and building evolving tapestries. It moves between cinematic washes, percussive pizzicatos and atmospheres worn smooth through ambient processing. We designed Etches to be performed. Every control is on surface, and every gesture is audible moment you make it. There are no traditional envelopes or filters here. You shape timbre as you play. Pick root note and choose from twelve scales and modes and pads stay locked to that key while you move. It's hard to play wrong note, which means you can focus on phrasing instead of finger positions. At center is monophonic voice generator and splice recorder with overdub, so you can layer sounds into something bigger than individual patches. An internal LFO moves against each splice, modulating where recording starts and ends. It's behavior we first used in our LAPS and JOTS pedals. Around all of that: tape-style delay and stereo space processor you can get lost in. Playlists: | #Etches Original video: