
Setting up your Shaped Dual EnvVCA
1. Power off your Eurorack system.
2. On the back of the
Shaped Dual EnvVCA
you will see a 10-pin header. The 10-
pin header connects to a Eurorack power header using the included power
cable. Connect the 16-pin end of the power cable to a 16-pin Eurorack power
header on your power supply distribution board and the 10-pin end to the
Shaped Dual EnvVCA
with the red stripe on the power cable oriented towards
the bottom of the module.
3. Using the included screws, securely attach the
Shaped Dual EnvVCA
to the
rails of your case.
4. Power on your Eurorack system.
Note: The
Shaped Dual EnvVCA
is reverse-polarity protected, but incorrectly
connecting any module in any system can damage other modules on the power bus.
Controls and Jacks
Cycle Buttons
The
Cycle
buttons toggle the cycling state for each channel. When cycling,
the
Shaped Dual EnvVCA
behaves like an LFO, with an output waveform
that continuously rises and falls. Each button illuminates orange to indicate
the module is cycling. Note that pressing this button does not reset or alter an
envelope that’s already rising or falling.
Cycling can also be toggled with a gate signal using the
Trig
jack and switch
(see below).
Rise/Fall Sliders and Switches
The
Rise
and
Fall
sliders control the rise and fall times of the envelope.
Moving a slider up makes the rise or fall portion slower, moving it down
makes it faster.
Each slider has a white light that indicates the current stage and output level
of the envelope. When the envelope is in the rise stage, the
Rise
slider light
will increase in brightness until the envelope hits its maximum. Once the peak
is reached, the
Rise
light will turn off and the
Fall
light will turn on, decreasing
in brightness as the envelope falls.
The
Rise/Fall
switches select the overall range of the sliders. Each slider has
its own switch with three positions:
Fast, Med, Slow.
When the switch is flipped to
Fast
, the envelopes go well into the audio
range, allowing for classic AM, FM, and other fast modulation effects.
The middle position (
Med
)
is designed for typical musical tempos, and can be
useful when using the VCA to make notes at common BPMs.
The
Slow
position is geared for gradual fades and other slow LFO-style
modulations.
See the Rise and Fall Time Ranges chart on page 6 for more information.
Time CV Jack and Rise/Fall CV Knobs
The
Time
CV jack modulates the
Rise
and
Fall
times of the envelope. The
jack feeds two knobs:
Rise
CV, and
Fall
CV. Each of these knobs is an
attenuverter (short for “attenuating inverter”) and controls how much the
control voltage on the
Time
CV jack will affect the rise or the fall time.
Turning an attenuverter knob to the right of center means that a positive
voltage on the
Time
CV jack will
lengthen
the rise/fall time and a negative
voltage will
shorten
the rise/fall time.
Turning a knob to the left of center gives the opposite effect, meaning that a
positive voltage on the
Time
CV jack will
shorten
the the rise/fall time, while a
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Cycle
Fall
Rise
Slow
Fast
Med
Slow
Fast
Time
Fall
Rise