Comes with original box, ribbon cables, and screws. Placed in rack only once and never left the house.
The Instruo Arbhar is a granular module that introduces the Lexer
method of granular synthesis and is perfect for processing, mangling,
and transforming audio into new sounds. It features six buffers with up
to ten seconds of audio record time, plus an all samples linked mode.
Audio
can be sampled using the audio inputs, or you can use the on-board
condenser microphone. The record function can be automated with a gate
input or triggered by a button. Additionally, there is an onset input
that analyzes the incoming audio. Additionally, there is an onset input
that analyzes the incoming audio with four onset analysis modes. These
affect whether the onset analysis triggers the capture of audio at the
onset input. The behavior of the trigger/gate output is also dependent
on the current active onset mode. The Arbhar features a back-lit LED
window that provides clear indication of which sample is selected, plus
the length, amplitude, and buffer position of the sample.
The
audio's buffer position can be scrubbed through in three-second chunks
with the scan control. In follow mode, the playhead's movement becomes
automated, with the scan knob determining the speed of the movement.
Arbhar features control over pitch with internal modulation that goes
from random slewed pitch deviation, no pitch deviation, or quantized
pitch deviation. The playback mode of the samples can be forward or
reverse. With the playback direction control in the middle position, the
module performs a coin toss operation to determine whether to play the
audio forward or reverse. The intensity control sets the distribution of
grains. The grain size goes down to single cycle waveforms and the
module becomes a wavetable oscillator that tracks v/oct. The strike
input and button fires a grain. The grain will complete its duration,
set by the pitch control. Multiple grains can be played back and layered
over each other.
The Arbhar also ships with a 2hp expander that
includes CV control over spray, layer, probability, skew, random, dub,
hold, and dry/wet mix.