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Beast's Chalkboard
Beast's Chalkboard
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Beast's Chalkboard:

Octave Switcher + More

ALM002 Buy Now (In Stock)

Beast’s Chalkboard is dual channel stepped voltage source and adder for your eurorack modular synthesizer system. It can also function as a dual precision buffered mult. 

It primarily is intended as a dual octave switcher for VCO’s but has many other uses including sequence transposition, FM ratio creation, buffered CV distribution and VCO calibration.

Feature List

  • Dual channel voltage adder and source with 1V stepped range of -2 to +2 volts (i.e 5 Octaves)
  • Two Buffered outputs and through output per channel
  • Top input normalized to bottom. Allows input to be varied across both channel outputs
  • Bottom octave switcher can be chained to top extending range to 9 octaves
  • Also functions as 1->6 or dual 1->3 buffered mult.
  • Skiff friendly
  • Designed and built in England.
  • An ALM Classic.

Technical Specifications

  • Supply: +12V 25mA / -12V 25mA
  • Size: 6HP
  • Depth: 22mm

Manual

The Beast's Chalkboard PDF Manual is available for download.
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VCV Version

Also available is a fully featured emulation of the Beast's Chalkboard for ‘VCV Rack’ virtual Eurorack studio software platform. It has the exact same features as its hardware counterpart.

It can be downloaded from the VCV Rack store here or explore all ALM VCV modules.

Watch & Learn

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