Ritual Electronics Altar, Manual

7

Character

Patched very simply Altar is a relatively smooth 

filter. It is not what you would expect from a noise 

worshipping company.

If you keep the gain relatively low, crank the 

resonance up a bit, you’ll find throat singing like 

harmonic series hidden in the simplest square waves.

One of the filter’s quirks is the frequency range. It 

goes from sub audio (2.5Hz) when all the way down 

to ultra sonic (43.5kHz) when all the way up. Keep 

this in mind while experimenting.

The resonance stays in control and only self oscillates 

at the very last degrees of the pot. This way you can 

get nuanced frequency bumps!

If you want to unlock wilder timbres, self patching 

and audio rate modulations are your friends, as 

usual. More on this in the following pages. 

Do not underestimate the gain knob. Its neutral 

position is around 2 o’clock. 

This very knob changes the character of the filter 

quite a lot. Specially for resonance. 

Be aware that less gain can result in less than the 

standard 10Vpp waveform. But it’s worth exploring 

these sounds too!