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⚡️In Stock📦 LZX - Fortress

Inspired by the legacy of early computer graphics generation, Fortress is a low bit depth video pattern generator and colorizer module. Fortress embraces the 3-bit patching workflow standardized by the LZX Castle DIY module series. A complete voice for your video synthesizer, Fortress includes 3 oscillators and 3 lo-fi ADC channels feeding a complex logic core with many operational modules. Selectable programs include Weaver, Arithmetic, Random, Shift Register and Posterize. Selectable output palettes include RGB, CGA high intensity 1 and 2, and other gradients.

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Audio acquisition

Stereo I/O with automatic level detection.
Manual override of the level detection.
Automatic mono/stereo switching through patch cable detection.
Recording time: 4s (48kHz 16-bit, stereo) to 32s (24kHz µ-law, mono).
Four quality modes, with different tone and reverb characters:

48kHz 16-bit
32kHz 12-bit with Clouds emulation
24kHz 12-bit with a hi-fi dry signal path
24kHz µ-law with cassette emulation
The FREEZE button and the gate input freezes the content of the recording buffer, allowing you to dive into its sonic details.
Auto-saving of the FREEZE buffer.
Granular synthesis

Three grain generation modes:

Latched (continuous), with a periodic or randomized rate, tracking V/O.
Gated, with bursts of grains triggered by the press of the SEED button or an external gate.
Clocked, with randomization or division of an external clock or trigger signal.
Four grain parameters:

TIME. Temporal position within the buffer.
SIZE. Grain duration from 0.03 to 4 seconds, forward or backward playback.
SHAPE. Morphing between four key shapes of the grain envelope: solid rectangular, snappy decay, smooth bell, or reversed.
PITCH. With V/O tracking.
Attenurandomizers

Available for each of the four parameters of a grain, sampled each time a grain is started:

Direct CV control.
CV control of the amount of gaussian randomization.
Internal randomization with an independent, uniform or peaky, random source.
Delay

Control of both the base delay clock rate (DENSITY), and its multiplication (TIME), with optional random taps.
Tap tempo with the SEED button or an external signal.
Enveloping of delay repeats, with the SHAPE setting.
Pitch shifting of the delayed signal, controlled by PITCH.
Signal flow

Feedback path delay: 1 sample.
Independent k***s for feedback, dry/wet amount, and reverb amount.
CV input assignable to each of these three parameters, or to variable combinations of them.
When unpatched, the R output is summed to the L output.
Optional generation of a gate signal on the R output.