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Centaur's Gates

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VCF, LPG & VCA!

The Centaur’s Gates is a fully analog signal path dual multi-types gate. Each of its two channels can take many forms: a smooth and warm two poles filter, a ready to ping low-pass gate, a VCA with distorting feedback loop, or an aggressive filter reminiscent of the unfamous Korg MS20. Both versions of the filter are available in three modes (low-pass, band-pass and high-pass), bringing to eight the number of types a channel can take the form of.

The extended sonic palette the Centaur’s Gates delivers is not its only asset as the module includes handy features such as serial/parallel routing, vactrol analog emulation, control link, variable input gain with drive, Select Bus compatibility, and last but not least, clickless switching for channels type selection via cv.

Features

  • Dual channel multi mode filter, low-pass gate or VCA
  • Smooth & warm or agressive & overdriven VCF characters
  • VCA with parallel distortion and feedback loop
  • LPG with 1 pole or 2 poles response,
  • Serial and parallel routing configurations
  • Opto feature simulating vactrol behavior
  • Channel linking
  • Clickless type switching
  • Select bus compatibility with 16 presets
  • Djtechtools rubber injected knobs
  • Skiff friendly
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Specifications

  • Width: 12HP
  • Depth: 27mm
  • +12v: 190mA
  • -12v: 150mA

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Testimonials

"Brilliantly flexible. Clickless CV-controlled switching between modes is awesome to have. Equally good at LPG pings and MS-20 style distorted filtering and of course all the basics are covered too. And despite being compact there are two channels of all this!"

Andrew Huang

Price

Ready to use - 369€

Fully assembled module, boxed with user manual