Instruo Arbhar Eurorack Granluar Processing Module

This is a really fun module, and there’s lots of possibilities for modulation and live sampling / mangling etc. I bought this new and installed it in a case, but only used it for a patch or two. It’s a terrific module, but I gotta let it go. Here’s the official description from Instruo:

Instruo arbhar - Granular processor

arbhar heralds a new generation of granular processing in eurorack. Sampled audio can be chopped into tiny grains, scattered, shaped, re-pitched, reversed and layered for an endless range of audio manipulation from seamless frozen tones to mutated acousmatic madness.

Featuring a condenser microphone set into the front panel, built in audio analysis for automatic sampling and internal modulation over various parameters; this is truly a granulator like no other.

arbhar | ˈɑɾˠuːɾˠ | noun (envelope) a containing structure or layer, a curve joining the successive peaks of a modulated wave

Size

18HP
Depth: 42mm

Power

+12V: 210mA
–12V: 30mA

Features

• Granular processor (Lexer method)
• Two granular engines available simultaneously:
  1. controlled by intensity and grain length settings (up to 24 grains)
  2. externally triggered grains (up to 20 grains)
• Manual and automatic playhead control for granular textures and time stretched audio playback (Scan/Follow mode)
• Sampling wavetable oscillator
• 6 sample buffers (10 second record time each)
• Built in condenser microphone
• Dedicated analogue input pre-amplifier
• Audio onset analysis for automatic capture control
• LED display for amplitude, length, scan, spray
• Trigger out
• Forward/Reverse grain playback probability control
• Internal random/quantised pitch modulation
• 1V/OCT cv pitch control
• Dynamic grain windowing
• Included 2HP CV expander for additional CV control

  Description

arbhar heralds a new generation of granular processing in eurorack. Sampled audio can be chopped into tiny grains, scattered, shaped, re-pitched, reversed and layered for an endless range of audio manipulation from seamless frozen tones to mutated acousmatic madness.

Featuring a condenser microphone set into the front panel, built in audio analysis for automatic sampling and internal modulation over various parameters; this is truly a granulator like no other.

Introducing the world for the first time to the Dr Lexer methodology of granular processing.

It is as the old saying goes … “Nicht verzagen, Lexer fragen”.