User manual

Sci Fi Module
Description
Th SCI FI is an ingeniously vintage-circuit-inspired Richard Nicol/Pittsburgh Modular original. As the reader might already know,
ring modulation is a signal-processing electronic function: an implementation of amplitude modulation or frequency mixing,
performed by multiplying two signals. This beloved other-worldly, warm, and at times clangorous coloring dates at least as far back
to Bode's Melochord of 1947, technology which was ultimately licensed to Robert Moog in the early 1960s.
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Back at the Modstar Ranch: The SCI FI's outputted ring-modulated signal is the!sum and difference!of the frequencies present in
each waveform—a signal rich in partials—often producing a haunting, bell-like, metallic, and sometimes softly grinding,
understated modulation awash in harmonic and non-harmonic tones. S.E. brought its own brand of dynamic ModMax Pedal-
flavored Ringmod to the world in 2002.
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SCI FI is getting better all the time with its companion LFO FREQ (low frequency oscillator), true analog PINK, and digital WHITE
noise, S!&!H—a true sample and hold generator, with RANGE control, and LAG generator—a slew limiter which craftily smooths out
changes in audio or modulation signals: higher values = smoother signal flowing. This module is every bit as creamy sounding as it
is electrically charged: the higher frequencies coat the sound with a sparkling quality one wouldn't naturally expect.
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Potentiometer Potential
Six attenuation pots: RING MOD, LFO FREQ, WHITE, PINK, RANGE, and LAG.
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Switch It Up
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Seven patch points: RM X IN, RM Y IN, GATE, SOURCE, RM OUT, WHITE, PINK, and S!&!H OUT.!
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