Intellijel Tetrapad + Tête — touch controller and expander, sold as a pair

Like-new condition. Both modules come with their power cables and the cable that connects them.

Tetrapad (20 HP, 19 mm deep, 130 mA +12V / 15 mA -12V) is a performance controller with four touch strips. Each strip reads finger position and pressure, and each has its own push encoder and LED. It has eight outputs, and what they send depends on the mode: CV, notes, gates or triggers. On its own it works as a bank of faders, voltage memory, finger-drumming pads, a chord generator, an 8-key keyboard, four LFOs or a panel of eight switches. Pressure response can be adjusted, and there is built-in slew.

Tête (8 HP, 39 mm deep, 120 mA +12V / 6 mA -12V) is the expander. It takes over Tetrapad's mode selection and adds a screen, sequencing, live looping, CV inputs, clock sync, and up to 99 presets that survive a power cycle.

Together they work in three modes:

• Voltages: a grid of up to 16 locations, each storing 8 voltages. You can step through it as a clocked sequence in the style of the SH-101, or stay at each location for as long as you like, or move around the grid with the X and Y CV inputs. Variable slew glides between the stored values.
• Notes: sequences and loops built in chord, scale or keyboard mode, on an isomorphic grid of 4, 12 or 16 notes. Sequences can run to 256 steps. Each step can be a gate, a tie or a rest, with gate lengths of 25%, 50% or 75%. Transposition and inversion are available live from CV, and a dedicated button handles looping.
• Combo: each strip can be a different tool (fader, bipolar fader, crossfader, Euclidean sequencer, toggle switches, voltage bank or LFO). Performances are recorded and looped as continuous movement, not stepped slices.

Without the Tête, the Tetrapad is a versatile hands-on controller. With it, the pair becomes a playable, recordable control centre: you can play gestures in by hand, loop them, sequence them, store them as presets and push them around with CV from the rest of your system. Note that the Tête works only with a Tetrapad, which is why they are being sold together.