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Quadrantid Swarm by eowave now Available for Purchase
2025
Quadrantid Swarm by eowave
The Quandrantid Swarm is a versatile, unique instrument for sound designers and musicians looking to explore exquisite and unfamiliar timbres that range from subtle to outrageous, nebulous to shimmering. It is comprised of a digital synthesizer voice with a percussive element, 2 pole analog filter, an LFO with 8 waveforms, and spring reverb.
The 8 touch keys can be used as a mono keyboard, polyphonic keyboard or an 8 step sequencer. The QS interfaces with other instruments via MIDI, and CV/Trig inputs. Pre-patching allows you to get hands-on immediately, but you can and should use patch cables to fully explore the potential of this instrument.
Quadrantid Swarm
- triangle wave osc with spread fold
- perc element with freq
- 2 pole filter, filter one high/low pass 12db, filter 2 low pass 12db
- AD envelope
- 1 x LFO with 8 waveforms
- slew limiter
- spring reverb
- 8 touch keys with 3 modes – mono, poly and sequencer
- MIDI in, CV/Trig in, Clock in/Reset in to communicate with other devices
- VCA
Weather Drones 1.5
Weather Drones started as a DIY project a few years ago but is now available as an affordable prebuilt module. Weather Drones is a great module for creating evolving drones, textures, and soundscapes, but it also responds to pitch very well. It has a mix out for the final result, but it also has separate noise, triangle, square, and fold outputs. It has a built-in low pass filter that can be modulated with the internal ‘helper’ oscillators which also accepts external modulation.
The final output has a ‘spread’ and ‘wavefolder’ knob to create all kinds of sounds, but its digital core really needs some external FX processing. Version 1.5 adds a built in VCA that can be modulated with an internal AD envelope generator. Additionally, the new update also includes enhanced MIDI control options for seamless integration with other gear. Users can now easily map the VCA and envelope parameters to external MIDI controllers for even more dynamic performance possibilities. For a step-by-step guide on how to utilize these new features, check out our cinematic guitar sequence tutorial on our website.
Patch – The Card Game
For this jam I used James Cigler’s ‘Patch – The Card Game’ (available at Signal Sounds here) to make some patching decisions, but it’s – mostly – a jam and the cards disrupted it :). But that’s part of the game! You can find the game on patchtcg.com. It started with ‘patch every cable you can’ (fortunately I made a selection of cables because I have a lot of them) and making a video also required to make some decisions myself.
At one point I had to patch all inputs of the Loquelic Iteritas Percido and it sounded terrible. So I had to cut it and start over. I wanted to ‘manipulate’ Clouds so I had to film until the dice rolled into a ‘6’ without falling out of my closet. So 99% is real, 1% is creative editing :).
Quadrantid Swarm by Eowave
I had my eye on this one since I saw it in Paul Tas’ personal Error Instruments case. While my module was on its way ‘home’, I saw Mylar Melodies’ video using it in a techno set. I was already sold, but wow I did not expect the QS to be that cool. Unfortunately mine came without a spring reverb and I am not sure the Eurorack version includes one. Oh well, nothing a Desmodus Versio can’t fix.
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