FKMG Klima + Kiel Expander

Klima is an atmospheric logic module creates gate signals from atmospheric readings in your environment for your synth.

Kiel is an expander for Klima (and/or FKMG's other module, IDEIN) that converts those gates into two related channels of random stepped control voltages. 

Includes original boxes and cloth bags, two power cables + connector cable, & screws.

Manufacturing Descriptions below:

KLIMA is the first of many upcoming experiments that welcomes in the surrounding atmosphere as a fundamental building block for your modular patches. Inspired by traditional logic modules and built around an atmospheric sensor, Klima is a 4HP module that derives random gates by comparing your analog signals to the ambient temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and relative altitude.

How it works: the module takes an incoming signal up to ±5V and passes it through a comparator whose threshold is set by the density potentiometer. This parameter sets the probability that you’ll get a logic high (+5V) at the first output . In addition to giving a relatively predictable output related to the original input, the comparator signal is then compared to four independent binary signals to produce corresponding gates when a logic-AND occurs – that is, when both signals are high at the same time. The frequencies of these signals are determined by the atmospheric values from the sensor and are reset when a high gate is detected at the reset input, giving you a bit more control over the random gates that Kilma produces.

What all this ultimately means, is that as the surrounding environmental conditions change, so does the frequency of each of these binary signals and, therefore, the probability of a high gate output. In other words, the same patch will take on different characteristics depending on where you find yourself.

Klima is great for producing organically flavored randomness and is especially fruitful when it comes to producing polyrhythms and textures. In addition to offering a useful function standard to modular systems, Klima encourages you to pack up a travel rig and hit the road.

KIEL, or the Klima-Idein Expander Link, is a 2hp expander module for use with the atmospheric logic module Klima, or the optic gate trigger Idein. Based on a Parallel In Parallel Out (PIPO) Shift Register circuit, KIEL receives the gate outputs from either of the aforementioned modules (not both) through a connector on the back panel, and converts those random gates into two related channels of random stepped control voltages. Using the controls on the front panel, you can affect the global voltage range of both channels, and modify which gates control which bits for different flavors of randomness with the bit-shift potentiometer. Two separate clock inputs for each channel allows for asynchronous stepping and, finally, a loop lock knob makes it possible to lock in voltage sequences from free-running (fully counter-clockwise), 8 steps (at noon) or 16 steps (fully clockwise). KIEL allows you to add melodies and dynamic voltages alongside your Klima- and Idein- produced gates and triggers.