Analog Starter Set

Six 6HP modules, one complete patch.

The Analog Starter Set brings together six After Later Designs modules that make a full, playable voice in 36HP: an oscillator, a filter, an envelope, a random melody source, a glide and slope generator, and a VCA mixer.  Each one is a full module that will keep its place as your system grows.

What's in the set

• bOSC: CEM3340 oscillator. A triangle-core VCO on the chip used in the SH-101 and Prophet 5. It outputs TRI, SAW, PULSE and SINE, and tracks V/OCT over 5+ octaves. It has linear FM and PWM with attenuators, and hard or soft sync. A VCO/LFO switch takes it from 40 kHz down to 80-second cycles.

• ENVy: CEM3310 ADSR envelope. Attack, decay, sustain and release, each with its own CV input. A THRESHOLD control sets how high a gate must be to trigger it. It also has end-of-attack and end-of-release triggers, and a RETRIG input.

• FILThy: multimode filter. LPF (4-pole), BPF, HPF and NOTCH outputs, all at once. It has two audio inputs, two FM inputs with an attenuverter on FM1, V/OCT tracking on the cutoff, and CV over resonance. The resonance will self-oscillate.

• STEPS: random stepped CV and burst generator. An internal clock, an 8-pulse burst generator, and a random stepped output that can lock into an 8-step loop. R.GATE gives a random gate on each step, so one module supplies both the notes and the rhythm.

• TILT: function generator and ADSR. A take on the classic Serge slope generator. Use it as a slew limiter, an envelope, an LFO or an audio-rate oscillator. It has separate exp/log shaping on rise and fall, a sustain control for full ADSR envelopes, and unipolar and bipolar outputs.

• BLEND: CV/audio mixer with dual VCA. Two CV sections, each with an attenuverter, plus MIN, MAX, comparator and sum outputs. It also has two LM13700 VCAs with a mix output.