the Sport Modulator could be one of the most confounding yet simple and useful eurorack modules ever conceived,
a veritable set of swiss-army knives in a compact package.. the Sport Modulator draws deep on the "patch-programmable" design approach of the
Sergemodular system, particularly the "Smooth/Stepped Generator".
it can be difficult to describe what it "is" exactly because what that is depends on how it is used in your system, such as for generating modulations, sampling
/ processing itself or other modules, as an audio source, timing duties etc.
technically speaking, it is a set of two voltage-controlled
integrators with peripheral circuitry set up to make it behave as one thing or another, depending on how it is configured.
here is a brief overview of the panel, (full manual below)
practically speaking, however,
each section can *independently* be used as, for example:
-a VC lag-processor that can be made to hold-state on command
-wide-range VC LFO/ Clock
-sample and hold
-track and hold
-comparator
-gate delay
-gateable oscillator
-and more-
finally, the unlabeled jack in the middle is a gate output that
compares the top section's output with the bottom.
*with controllable input slew [or sample
'correlation' ]*/>
*the control input is the same.['s/h' in the drawing]. The 'droop' in either mode is extremely low- less than 500uV/S.
when cycle is selected in Hold mode,
the section will generate complex staircase waveforms that are synced
to input pulses.. [BTW the input signal doesn't have to be a pulse,
but just about any rising slope, this was done to allow for even more
inter-compatibility between the 2 sections.]*/>
*the Sport Modulator is a dual VC lag processor/ track or sample and hold/ wide-range VC LFO
that can be made to hold-state on command. also can be put into
cycle mode as well, giving a wide-range VC LFO that
ranges from around 700 Hz to 30 seconds or so per cycle. with external CV this range is extended from around 1500Hz to ???
and/or:
a sample and hold with controllable input slew (or sample
'correlation' ). the 'droop' in either mode is extremely low- less than 500uV/S.
when cycle is selected in Hold mode,
the section will generate complex staircase waveforms that are synced
to input pulses.. [BTW the input signal doesn't have to be a pulse,
but just about any rising slope, this was done to allow for even more
inter-compatibility between the 2 sections.]
finally, the unlabeled jack in the middle is a gate output that
compares the top section's output with the bottom.*/>