I recently got an Angle Grinder and i‘m just in love with it! At first i was only looking for an unconventional waveshaper which is different from your usual distortion or wavefolding. And daaamn! Angle Grinder just hit the mark! Even when using basic waves, it gives you such nice and complex waveforms. It kinda hits wavetable-like territory once you start modulating the Grind CVs and the frequency of the Spin core. I also really like the „Supersawification“ when feeding just a simple saw wave into it and grinding it in Low mode. A big fat ANALOG stacked sound without needing that many modules. So i found my new favourite waveshaper! But it doesn’t stop there… After exploring the wave mangling side of it, i came to using it as quadrature LFO to modulate the Tempête Magnétique quad filter for some really nice sweeps. On other modules like the Waldorf NW1 this phase related modulation also sounds really nice. Then i‘m using Angle Grinder on its own as a kind of analog wavetable oscillator. Either by using the normalized sine on the input or by feeding an LFO into it for some wild PWM sounds which you just can‘t get from a regular square oscillator. And still it‘s not done… Angle Grinder also is an awesome sounding filter! If no Grind CV is applied and dampening is all the way up, it sounds really lovely and warm. With less dampening it‘s resonance gets into more aggressive territories and it has a really unique sound to it. I don‘t know any other filter that sounds like that. When you use the Grind faders or apply Grind CV, things get really crazy, as these 4 channels each add a different feedback / resonance to the filter. This gives you wildly different sonic characters or if you take it over the top, it creates some wild feedback mayhem. And even in „filter mode“ the Grind section is still in effect and can be used to let the input signal mangle itself based on the 4 filter types. Angle Grinder isn‘t a cheap module, but for all you get with the module, it‘s well worth the price! I‘m currently toying with the idea of getting more Angle Grinders, so i can use one as an oscillator, one as a waveshaper and one as a filter. Then adding enough LFOs and envelopes and a VCA. Basically building an entire Angle Grinder voice. But sadly i‘ve run out of rack space and i‘ve to save my money for quite some time to afford the additional Angler Grinders…
Angle grinder still blows my mind. So much versatility and such an interesting voice on its own. Perfect compliment to the Three Body, or any other voice honestly.
@@GuitarsAndSynths So far, everything Schlappi has released has been digital. He has a three-op FM oscillator that will come out at some point in the next year which will be digital, but it is still in development.
This along with the Hertz Donut and Loquelic Iteritas are three of the best industrial modules around for modular synthesis! Love mine especially when I feed distortion from 100 Grit to it.
I am having a lot of fun with my angle grinder but the only thing I don't understand is the inject input. What does it really do? I can't make it react on anything? I though it was to control the spin knob but it doesn't seem to react on my 16n.
@@SCHLAPPIENGINEERING I'm about to start my 3rd case, I have two Pittsburgh 360s maxed out, so I'll be grabbing one of these next payday. The 4ms resonator in November.
I recently got an Angle Grinder and i‘m just in love with it!
At first i was only looking for an unconventional waveshaper which is different from your usual distortion or wavefolding.
And daaamn! Angle Grinder just hit the mark!
Even when using basic waves, it gives you such nice and complex waveforms. It kinda hits wavetable-like territory once you start modulating the Grind CVs and the frequency of the Spin core.
I also really like the „Supersawification“ when feeding just a simple saw wave into it and grinding it in Low mode. A big fat ANALOG stacked sound without needing that many modules.
So i found my new favourite waveshaper!
But it doesn’t stop there…
After exploring the wave mangling side of it, i came to using it as quadrature LFO to modulate the Tempête Magnétique quad filter for some really nice sweeps. On other modules like the Waldorf NW1 this phase related modulation also sounds really nice.
Then i‘m using Angle Grinder on its own as a kind of analog wavetable oscillator. Either by using the normalized sine on the input or by feeding an LFO into it for some wild PWM sounds which you just can‘t get from a regular square oscillator.
And still it‘s not done… Angle Grinder also is an awesome sounding filter!
If no Grind CV is applied and dampening is all the way up, it sounds really lovely and warm.
With less dampening it‘s resonance gets into more aggressive territories and it has a really unique sound to it. I don‘t know any other filter that sounds like that.
When you use the Grind faders or apply Grind CV, things get really crazy, as these 4 channels each add a different feedback / resonance to the filter. This gives you wildly different sonic characters or if you take it over the top, it creates some wild feedback mayhem.
And even in „filter mode“ the Grind section is still in effect and can be used to let the input signal mangle itself based on the 4 filter types.
Angle Grinder isn‘t a cheap module, but for all you get with the module, it‘s well worth the price!
I‘m currently toying with the idea of getting more Angle Grinders, so i can use one as an oscillator, one as a waveshaper and one as a filter. Then adding enough LFOs and envelopes and a VCA. Basically building an entire Angle Grinder voice. But sadly i‘ve run out of rack space and i‘ve to save my money for quite some time to afford the additional Angler Grinders…
Angle grinder still blows my mind. So much versatility and such an interesting voice on its own. Perfect compliment to the Three Body, or any other voice honestly.
Schlappi is making some of the most innovative analog eurorack modules on the market. I am counting the days until I can get an Angle Grinder.
Thanks Mark! Next week!
so Angle Grinder is pure analog module and not digital?
@@GuitarsAndSynths So far, everything Schlappi has released has been digital. He has a three-op FM oscillator that will come out at some point in the next year which will be digital, but it is still in development.
First time I've heard of schlappi, instant subscriber.
This oscillator is absolutely fantastic.
This along with the Hertz Donut and Loquelic Iteritas are three of the best industrial modules around for modular synthesis! Love mine especially when I feed distortion from 100 Grit to it.
Damn.. modules like this are the reason I moved from synths to modular.... this is fire
i know it is quite off topic but do anybody know a good website to watch newly released movies online?
@Larry Elisha flixportal :P
Every system should have a minimum of two Schlappi Engineering modules
agree especially the Angle Grinder and 100 Grit!
Three is better. 😀
wat a neat coitus of svf, vco and distortion!
This thing looks beyond awesome
Yup, gonna be adding this to my arsenal!
heck yeah!
I am having a lot of fun with my angle grinder but the only thing I don't understand is the inject input. What does it really do? I can't make it react on anything? I though it was to control the spin knob but it doesn't seem to react on my 16n.
Sounds interesting. Might need to pick one of these up.
I really want to hear this thing with the 4MS Spectral Multiband Resonator!
haha, I'll have to talk to the 4MS crew, doable!
@@SCHLAPPIENGINEERING I'm about to start my 3rd case, I have two Pittsburgh 360s maxed out, so I'll be grabbing one of these next payday. The 4ms resonator in November.
nice!
Excellent
wow, i like also the oszilliskop!
I got to have one of those!
you will! thanks Dan!
Mean!
It will be mine… oh yes, it will be mine.
Modem failed to connect Internet... :( Just kidding, nice sounds !
yet another wild module. can i just buy noise making modules and never sequencers? sigh.
...that's pretty much what I do!
everything is a sequencer if you have enough sample/holds