Bayerova

Overview

Bayerova is a six voice module based on recordings of a real acoustic upright piano. A variety of 39 presets apply filtering, dynamic response modifiers, randomized modulation and digital erosion effects.

Presets & Manual Edits

Choosing a preset loads several tone shaping settings at once. The three slider controls let you adjust the preset’s Instability and Erosion, and their Mix. The preset also supplies the underlying tone shaping, so different presets can respond differently to the same slider positions. Sustain is also part of a preset but can be changed in the UI as well. When no Sustain value is selected, the value supplied by its connected sequencer is used.

Instability & Erosion

Instability creates a range of effects from very short delays to wildly modulating warping and stretching. Mix brings that delayed, modulated layer into the sound. With Mix down, increasing Instability alone will not make the delayed layer prominent. The amount of instability that can be added to the signal varies from preset to preset. Clean presets have the least amount available and degraded presets have the most.

Erosion changes the sample rate reduction independently, introducing digital signal collapse. At low settings it generates subtle grit and high pitched aliasing and at high settings it can completely decimate the signal.

Properties

Controls

Related Modules

• Amoeba provides subtractive bass and lead sounds with separate filter and amplitude envelopes.
• Diatom combines an FM voice with a sub oscillator for bell, electric piano and bass textures.
• Elements provides metallic and percussive tones with a shared filter and amplitude envelope.
• Symmetry can trigger Bayerova chords and exposes Bayerova’s six voice polyphony clearly.