Welcome to Floating Knobs! ♡
Crafting Chaos: Modular Instruments,
a labour of love for intricate rhythms and textures
First release:
Cuisine!
38HP. 12 track
Performance Sequencer
Freshly served for tasty rhythms, juicy melodies and sparkling modulation. Cuisine is ready to spice up your system with intricate rhythmic arrangements, organic patterns and polyrhythms.
Showcasing 12 tracks, the Step Sequencer offers you abundant space for exploration and play. From advanced personalized scales to Euclidian rhythms, this instrument provides you with the essential tools for tailoring your personalized workflow.
12
track
Construct complex rhythms through 12 tracks freely assignable to control drum voices, musical notes or CV modulation. Store 12 tracks in one project.
complex
rythms
Play with the flexibility of Cuisine's clocking. Tracks can be clocked independently or coupled together. You can also customize the way tracks interact with each other to create polyrhythms.
melody
maker
Craft quickly interesting melodies and chord progressions with a personalized scale and transpose system.
euclid
Making interesting rhythms can be as easy as activating the Euclidian function. Manipulate these organic patterns by changing their size, offset and steps.
flow
Cuisine is designed to offer you seamless control with just one hand. This ensures rapid interaction and a fluid flow during improvisations in the studio or in live musical performances.
modular spirit
Cuisine is made to connect to your Eurorack modular setup. With Midi In and Out, many Gate outputs and CV's, you are ready to trigger, gate and modulate your system.
ready
to-go
Coming in a standalone format that can be converted to Eurorack, Cuisine is versatile and portable, a powerful tool for delectable grooves.
Open Source
Hardware is open source, making Cuisine a powerful platform to develop your very own sequencer or controller application.
Specifications
12 tracks with three different modes available:
Note, Drum, or Modulation
Track Modes
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Each track can have an independent size of up to 64 steps
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Individual track clock division settings
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12 patterns per track and 16 banks for storing patterns
Track Configuration
Versatile Usage
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Can be used as a stand-alone unit or integrated into a Eurorack modular system
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Intuitive operations such as Copy, Paste, and Clear
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Quick save and load functions for selected tracks
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The ability to change patterns for the current track, selected tracks or all tracks simultaneously
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design for one-handed operation
Hardware
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Endless potentiometer with the silky smooth feeling of a regular potentiometer
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The hardware is built around an Atmega 4809 microcontroller (think Arduino Nano Every)
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The open-source nature of the hardware allows adventurous users to develop their firmware.
Musical Features
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User-customizable scale that can be deactivated independently on each track
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Main transpose feature for easy chord progression within the selected scale
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Override/Performance mode for performing a track as a sequenced arpeggiator
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Individual gate length control per step, as well as a track-specific gate length relative to the next note
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Euclidean rhythm generator for generating complex rhythmic patterns
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Velocity control, including the track's main base velocity and the track's main accent velocity for more expressive sequencing
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Drum track with full-range velocity per step
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Independant transport control of the 12 tracks : manually start and stop your tracks or control them via internal or external gates
Inputs & Outputs
All inputs and outputs are freely assignable to one or more tracks
Gate inputs can be used for main clock input, individual clock input, reset, or play functions
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4 CV (Control Voltage) outputs ranging from 0 to 8V
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8 gates/triggers outputs with a voltage range of 0 to 5V
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4 gates inputs
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MIDI TRS input and output
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USB-C port for power and firmware updates
1. Midi Input and Output
2. USB Power Connector
3. Gate Inputs
4. CV Outputs
5. Gate Outputs
6. [step 1 to 16] keys.
7. endless [pot]
8. [performance] toggle switch
9. [page] explorer
10. Transport Keys
11. Command keys
12. [shift] key
