designed with all necessary protection and fail-safes so you can just
start plugging in patch cables and see what happens!
Attenuate signals you wouldn't think immediately to attenuate:
many patches that have CV or audio rate modulation in the CV-path
can be attenuated to vary the resulting range of tonal outputs - try
something different such as attenuating an FM or AM modulator wave
so that the resulting sound output from a carrier VCO/VCF/VCA is
wildly different.
As a live performance tool:
rather than having an attenuator knob on a module or the in chain
mixer/attenuator/whatever buried in a nest of cable spaghetti, pop
an Airtenuator into the desired signal path and adjust the angle so
its convenient to adjust without having to fight through a tangle.
Modulate decay times and filters organically:
Your lovely acid or donk bass is great with a little modulation,
but modulating the amount of modulation with your hand gives
you a more organic sound - delightfully off-beat yet ear-tinglingly
satisfying.
Create a simple mixer:
Multiple parallel Airtenuators can be connected at the outputs with
a stackable cable or mult to create a crude mixer - great for
combining modulation sources or audio, or both.
Organic fades right at your fingertips:
Sometimes you want to fade voices in and out, but your mixer is
covered in cables. Airtenuators can be used to organically fade in
and out, or quickly start and stop, an audio or CV source, away from
other cables.
Patch ideas:
Although uses of attenuators in patch examples and ideas are found readily
online and in some books there are some other less obvious ways to use the
Airtenuator in patches in your modular rig:
below i've included some inspiring words to show patches that might be
tried and expanded upon; and, as ever, experiment – RYO modules are
