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e spread knob and CV control the frequency spacing of the oscillators. 
is  allows  the  overtone  series  to  vary  from  a  purely  harmonic  to  very 
inharmonic.

Spread

Skin/Liquid/Metal

Trigger

Out

Bass/Alto/Treble

e trigger input triggers the start of a drum sound. It is a rising-edge trigger 
which has a threshold of around 3 V.

e  output  is  a  low-impedance  audio  source.  e  output   varies
signi cantly  based  on  the  parameterization  as  compensation  for 
loudness occurs.

Hit

e Hit switch allows one to manually trigger Basimilus Iteritas Alter.

Basimilus

Iteritas

Alter

Pitch

Spread

Spread

Harm

Fold

Trig

Decay

Attack

S/L/M

B/A/T

Out

Morph

Pitch

Morph

Fold

HIT

Attack

Decay

Harmonic

Skin
 Liquid
  Metal

Bass
 Alto
  Treble

e mode switch selects between the three modes. Skin is a six-operator 
additive synth for tonal sounds. Liquid is a six-operator additive synth with 
a pitch envelope to add extra kick. Metal is a six operator FM synth for 
producing noisy and alien sounds. is setting can be controlled by CV 
into the S/L/M jack.

e range switch offsets the pitch by two octaves in Alto mode and four 
octaves in Treble mode relative to Bass mode. is setting can be controlled 
by CV in the B/A/T jack.

Noise Engineering

  Basimilus Iteritas Alter

 

Analog-inspired parameterized drum synthesizer

Summary of Contents for Basimilus Iteritas Alter

Page 1: ...ditive synthesizer with adjustable waveform harmonic spread and decay Adjustable attack including a noise oscillator is also included ese are summed and fed into an in nifolder for crunch and variety Basimilus Iteritas Alter is an improved version of Basimilus Iteritas It is 2HP smaller includes CV of switches adds an third mode and pitch range and knobs know offset rather than attenuate Basimilus ...

Page 2: ...g bass drums As the parameter is increased more harmonics blend in lasting longer periods of time e knob offsets the CV input Fully le the tone produced is a single harmonic tone From there to the rst quarter a second tone fades in e remaining turning extends rst the decays then the amplitudes of the other four harmonics e fold knob and CV control the in nifold section For the rst 3 4 of the range ...

Page 3: ...er Basimilus Iteritas Alter Pitch Spread Spread Harm Fold Trig Decay Attack S L M B A T Out Morph Pitch Morph Fold HIT Attack Decay Harmonic Skin Liquid Metal Bass Alto Treble e mode switch selects between the three modes Skin is a six operator additive synth for tonal sounds Liquid is a six operator additive synth with a pitch envelope to add extra kick Metal is a six operator FM synth for produc...

Page 4: ...trolled by the ATTACK DECAY and HARM controls e noise envelope is also affected by the ATTACK knob e oscillators are summed and then the ATTACK envelope is applied to the sum is then feeds into a threshold re ection folder with amplitude compensation and the ability to dynamically add more fold stages At very high settings the fold will add in an exponentially decaying pulse at the local minima and...

Page 5: ... Basimilus Iteritas Alter Analog inspired parameterized drum synthesizer Voltage Supply Basimilus Iteritas Alter comes pre calibrated but over time it may change and need a touch up Pitch calibration is controlled by an linear resistor divider network To calibrate the tuning attach a volt meter preferably 4 digit to the test points TPCV and TPGND on the rear panel and adjust the trim pot e voltage...

Page 6: ...e CPU daughter board was developed to be used in a wide range of future modules It uses the XMOS XS1 processor which is a great blend of exible powerful and affordable Basimilus Iteritas was written in XC and C using the XMOS IDE e algorithm was prototyped in C and C as a windows application to quickly iterate on the parametrization e internal signal chain is 8 24 xed point which is quantized to 16...

Page 7: ... number of design improvements had become obvious As part of ongoing engineering improvements we needed to change the CPU board that was used on the original Basimilus and this became an opportunity to do a more in depth revamp e single biggest change was the addition of Liquid mode Pitch envelopes are a pretty obvious thing to do with something like the Basimilus and a lot of people do it externa...

Page 8: ... Tyler Thompson Alex Anderson 8 Basimilus Iteritas Alter Pitch Spread Spread Harm Fold Trig Decay Attack S L M B A T Out Morph Pitch Morph Fold HIT Attack Decay Harmonic Skin Liquid Metal Bass Alto Treble Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter Analog inspired parameterized drum synthesizer ...

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