Signed Serial #1 / Ouroboros Alea - West Coast Buchla-like / Discontinued

Ouroboros Alea - West Coast Analog Synth
Mint Serial #1 Signed by the Designer. Comes with Power Adapter and 5 Banana Patch cables. This model is now discontinued.

Specs:
Alea is a two voice semi-modular analog synthesizer with sine wave oscillators, waveshapers, low pass gates, LFOs and a stochastic shift register-based sequencer. These elements work together as a standalone 
patchable instrument that is capable of everything from generative melodies and morphing drones to psychoacoustic percussion and silky sub basslines to esoteric techno and much more. The sine wave oscillators 
have CV and FM inputs paired with attenuators for each input as well as a two different voltage controllable waveshapers per oscillator which 
affect the timbre of the oscillators - one type of waveshaper which addsVharmonics to shape the sine into a soft triangle wave, and the other 
waveshaper folds and shapes the phase of the sine. The oscillators also have sine outputs for modulating each other, as well as a vactrol-based vca which is hardwired as a bi-directional modulation index that can be opened via cv or gate signals for timbral cross-modulation between the two oscillators. The oscillators can be used as completely separate 
voices, or together with one voice acting as a primary oscillator and the other as a modulation oscillator. The two voices also have 
individual outputs. Each voice has a vactrol low pass gate with two inputs per LPG - one regular gate input which will provide sustain for 
the duration of the gate, and one input which coverts the gate to a trigger for faster percussive sounds with no sustain and only decay. The
LPGs can also be patched so that they are held open to create drones, or patched for amplitude modulation via one of the oscillators or 
modulation sources. 


The Alea has two LFOs - a LFO with 
triangle and square wave outputs as well as a VCLFO with a triangle output. The Alea's sequencer is based around a four-stage shift register which is clocked by the VCLFO and collects data from one of the oscillators for probabilistic pattern generation. The shift register can also be clocked from external clock signals from other instruments. The
shift register cycles through it's four stages as it collects on/off data on each clock pulse and creates different arrays of outcomes as it 
cycles. Once the Alea has been patched and knobs have been set - the shift register will continue to cycle through patterns and generate 
different numeric combinations of it's stages in unity or in abscense like a roll of the dice or a song of the birds.

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