BASTL Instruments Aikido

BASTL Instruments AikidoAikido is a performative quad VCA mixer with flexible submix routing and two styles of integrated envelope followers. Clever normalization allows ready to go sidechain compression, expansion, and rapid routing experimentation. Clickless mute switches and level faders make for immediate performability, while dedicated attenuverters on each channel make Aikido a powerful and flexible quad VCA. The main mix output is accompanied by individual VCA outputs

A spiralled

Each channel has a pan pot

e changing the phase

Each algorithm offers a lot of flexibility therefore a big sounding bass drum and a squelchy snare can be dialled in within the same algorithm

MIDI input and headphone output with a dedicated volume control

All CV functions at audio rate

the rungler (stepped CV generator)

and transpose a sequence

completed with a panorama and a volume control build the heart of each instrument channel

together with the 16 envelope followers connected to each band of the modulator filterbank

and can therefore become a super complex LFO

producing a cleaner