Pittsburgh Modular

Pittsburgh Modular Taiga Paraphonic Synthesizer

Available from Gear4Music at £679.00 ($862).

The Pittsburgh Modular Taiga is a fully analog paraphonic desktop Eurorack synthesizer with a deep and complex sound palette. The Taiga is versatile synthesizer comprised of many features and functions that you would expect from a full modular setup. It has three signature components developed by Pittsburgh to make it stand out: three oscillators with complex waveshaping abilities a sonically accurate bespoke Pittsburgh filter and Dynamic control VCA and low pass gate. The oscillators feed into an intricate waveshaping engine producing up to four waveforms that can be combined and folded by a unique six-stage wavefolder. The Pittsburgh filter sweeps the entire frequency range of your audio signals with a warm and full curve without dead spots or low frequency roll off. The Dynamic controller replaces the VCA found in most conventional synthesizers utilising innovations based on traditional low pass gates to add physical world properties to your sounds. It has three modes: VCA low pass gate and plucked low pass gate. Echoes is an analog delay effect of the Taiga employing two analog BDD chips with over 4000 capacitors each producing a voltage controlled analog delay signal. The Taiga has its own signal routing preset which means you can use it straight out of the box it also has extensive mapping capabilities with 60 CV inputs and outputs. Taiga also features other really useful and fun features such as an arpeggiator MIDI to CV inputs an LFO a preamp and a mixer. Its a compact and powerful synth with endless sound-shaping ability.

MGIN: MG-M9536HGR