01 / The panel
Five knobs. One memory. No menus.
Every control on Drift-12 shapes how a gesture is written and how it fades. Patch an envelope, a joystick or a slow LFO into GEST, and the module draws it into its memory field. The four outputs read that field from four different corners, so they move together without ever moving the same.
- 40colsDensity
- How fine the halftone memory is. Forty columns across the panel, each one a sample-and-hold cell.
- 0.90Twinkle
- Per-cell jitter. At 0.9 no two cells decay alike, so a held voltage shimmers instead of buzzing.
- 1.40×Intensity
- How hard a gesture writes into memory. Above 1 the newest stroke saturates; the tail stays soft.
- 2.90cmRadius
- The width of the brush. Wide enough that a slow hand smears into neighbouring cells, the way a slew does.
- 0.10Grain
- A whisper of noise on every output, so four channels of the same gesture never phase-lock.
02 / On the bench
Built like a tool, not a toy.
- Width
- 12 HP
- Depth
- 28 mm, skiff-friendly
- Power
- +12 V 38 mA · −12 V 11 mA
- Outputs
- 4 × ±5 V, 16-bit
- Inputs
- Gesture, clock, freeze, reset
- Panel
- 2 mm brushed aluminium