What is it?

The Rakit Metal Synth has a Polivok’s inspired filter at its core. It uses this, along with a punchy AD envelope to produce a variety of percussive sounds from shaped noise. It was designed to be a companion to the Rakit Drum Synth and as such creates a range of mad/interesting sounds and some very useful metallic sounds.

Available as a kit or fully assembled.

How it Works - The synth is triggered by a piezo disc which is sensitive to how hard you tap the top panel giving subtle differences in the two stage envelope.

The noise is generated digitally by a pre-programmed microcontroller. The filter at the heart of the unit can be controlled and modified by the Sweep, lowpass/bandpass, Resonance, Cutoff and Cutoff CV.

So what do these twiddly knobs do?

SENS: Sets the sensitivity of the trigger/touchpad.

DECAY1: Sets the decay time of the louder initial hit (body).

DECAY2: Sets the lasting decay time (tail).

CUTOFF: Sets the filter’s cutoff frequency and the bias for control voltages to be summed with.

SWEEP: Controls the amount of sweep applied to the cutoff frequency.

RES: Sets the filter’s resonance. The filter will oscillate at max!

AUX IN: A mono input of your choosing.

TRIGGER, CUTOFF CV, AUX IN and OUTPUT connectors are all 3.5mm mono.

SOUND OUTPUT: The Metal Synth is capable of generating a wide range of frequencies and as such will work best with a wide range speaker/amplifier rather than a typical guitar/bass amp.

Power - Get yourself a 9V PP3 battery to use with the battery-barrel jack connector supplied in your kit for a mobile device or if you would prefer a power supply make sure its rated +8V to +12V DC and has a centre positive barrel jack. 2.1mm (centre) x 5.5mm (outside)

Kit Assembly

This kit requires skill and precision to complete, but trust us when we say it is well worth the effort!! The only equipment needed to complete this kit is a soldering iron and a pair of flush cutters. 2m of our favourite lead solder is included with the kit. We are unable to provide individual customer support with kit building so please see the easy to follow assembly guide to gauge difficulty before purchasing. It can be downloaded or viewed on the Rakit website along with our handy soldering tutorial and blog containing some fun hacks!

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