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Bard Quartet

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Evolving Harmonies

The Bard Quartet composes and sings along with your complex harmonies! With its 4 channels and integrated keyboard, the Bard Quartet can control up to 4 different instruments which will play together as a harmonious quartet fed by your musical ideas. Even better: the potentiometer allows you to navigate through 8 customisable harmonic progressions, leading to the creation of entire songs!

The Bard Quartet can memorise up to 320 scales (4 channels, 8 harmonies, 10 memory slots). Furthermore, it includes highly customisable Microtuning and Arpeggiator options, as well as three assignable inputs and outputs.

Features

  • Quad quantizer with user editable and independent scales
  • Harmony potentiometer and CV input allowing to easily recall 8 different sets of scales
  • User editable microtuning capabilities
  • Arpeggiator with control on octave spread and mode
  • Octave transposing (-3 to +3 oct)
  • Root note (firmware 1.1)
  • Shared transpose input (per octave, pre or post quanitzer)
  • Shared gate input acting as a track and hold or a reset for the arpeggiators
  • Shared trigger output
  • Non-volatile memory of 10 slots of 8 harmonies
  • Optional input interraction (normalisation or analog shift register)
  • V/Oct, Hz/V and Buchla tuning compliant
  • Tuning mode generating a precise 0V on every outputs (firmware 1.1)
  • Skiff Friendly
  • Djtechtools rubber injected potentiometers
Bard Quartet side

Specifications

  • Width: 10HP
  • Depth: 29mm
  • +12v: 60mA
  • -12v: 10mA

Videos

Demo

Demo

Shift Register mode

Shift Register mode

Firmware 1.1 new features

Firmware 1.1 new features

Testimonials

"The design is very neat and I particularly respect that you've brought microtonal tuning to eurorack, this should be an essential feature of any quantiser."

James Holden - Border Community, 2022

"Bard’s Quartet is the playful quantizer I always wanted. Easy to program on the fly, quick to do transitions"

Hainbach

Price

Ready to use - 415€

Fully assembled module, boxed with user manual

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