ANIMAL FACTORY AMPLIFICATION MAN-EM1-2-20220410 Understanding and Caring for Your Animal Baron Samedi Eurorack Module User Manual

: June 5, 2024
: ANIMAL FACTORY AMPLIFICATION

Table of Contents

CONTROLS
ENVIRONMENT
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
EXPANSION HEADER
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ANIMAL FACTORY AMPLIFICATION MAN-EM1-2-20220410 Understanding and Caring for Your Animal Baron Samedi Eurorack Module

CONTROLS

INPUT: Audio goes in here.

DRY OUT: Buffered copy of input signal.

WET OUT: Distorted signal only, without attenuation.

VOLUME knob has no effect on this output.

MIX OUT: Blended clean and dirty signal.

UPPER KNOBS

LIFE: A strange notch filter, goes from treble cut to deep notch back to treble cut. Turning it fully CCW increases the chances of self-oscillation.

DEATH: CW rotation increases gating, sound erosion and reduces bass. PWM- like effects can be achieved.

RUM: Gain control for the fuzz circuit.

BURIAL: CW rotation will bring out lower harmonics/- suboctaves of the input signal.

VOLUME: Controls the final output level of the distorted signal.

BLEND: Crossfade between clean and distorted signal.

SWITCHES

DEATH CV: Turns on/off the CV Control affecting the DEATH knob.

BURIAL SWITCH: Turns on/off the CV Controls affecting the BURIAL knob.

INPUTS AND OUTPUTS

LIFE IN: Insert CV to change the range of the LIFE knob. Normalled to internal voltage.

DEATH IN: Insert CV to control the DEATH knob. Accepts bipolar CV.

BURIAL IN: CV control for the BURIAL knob. Accepts bipolar CV.

VOODOO: CV control over the feedback loop. Normalled to internal voltage.

LIFE CV: If nothing is connected to the LIFE CV input, it can be controlled manually with this knob. Higher CV lowers LIFE’s maximum cutoff frequency.

DEATH CV: Attenuverter! Use together with DEATH CV switch and the DEATH knob. Play around.

BURIAL CV: Attenuverter! Use together with BURIAL CV switch and the BURIAL knob. Play around.

VOODOO: rude, uncouth, (barely) controlled chaos. Can be controlled manually if nothing is connected to VOODOO IN.

The Baron is a powerful deity with a mind of his own. We must respect what this module chooses to do or suffer the consequences of insubordination. Any attempts at getting precise results from a force so powerful beyond our plane of existance, such as V/oct tuning of self-oscillation, precise filtering or (ugh) “transparent clean boost” will result in ridicule. Keep it respectful, but keep experimenting.
Feed a gate/trigger into the audio input while setting the module at the edge of self oscillation. Tune the sound with the BURIAL and LIFE knobs. Voila, you now have the weirdest kicks. Weirder and better than spending your life savings on sample packs that you have to run through the Baron anyway.
Feed no signal into the audio input and four CV signals into the CV inputs. Play with the attenuators. Yep, it’s sorcery.
The two switches on either side are performance switches. If they are on all the time with nothing connected to their corresponding CV inputs, there is a definite change in sound and general brutality. Our advice is to keep them off and then flip them on to turn CV modulation on and off.
Did you know that Live and Let Die is the only Bond movie to feature supernatural elements? The supernatural element in this case is Baron Samedi.
Using the DEATH CV and BURIAL CV attenuverters requires that you play with the DEATH and BURIAL knobs to find the settings that work for you. There is no general setting for getting results here.
Surprising and completely insane results can be had if you feed a second (or even third?) audio signal into the DEATH CV and BURIAL CV inputs.