• QUARTET is a touch-based analog synthesizer with wooden bars, colored jacks, and, of course. a tendency to veer into uncharted sonic territories based on Ciat-Lonbarde's Tetrax Organ.
• It's sold individually and as part of UNCONVENTIONAL BUNDLE.

The wooden bars allow to control the amplitude of a dedicated oscillator, which may have its pitch set via the associated slider. QUARTET pushes richer waveforms right out of the gate. QUARTET offers separate global pitch controls for the rising and falling portions of the triangle wave. This allows for all manner of ramp, sawtooth, and triangle waveforms to be created. Interestingly, QUARTET also offers separate chaos controls for the rise and fall of the oscillators, allowing for cyclical, cascading frequency modulation and feedback on only one portion of the waveform.

QUARTET offers a colorful array of 34 different patch points to conjure up different sounds. In this case, the jacks follow a simple color scheme: hot colors are outputs (red and orange), and cold colors are inputs (blue, green, and grey). Each column corresponds to one of the four oscillators within QUARTET, and the jack positioning rotates to facilitate different convenient patching arrangements. Additionally, the grey inputs at the top correspond to the two global pitch controls on the left, and the two chaos controls on the right.

While you might think that six patch points per oscillator is not a lot, QUARTET will surprise you with the variety of patches that it can create. By taking the oscillator output from the red jack, and patching it into another's blue frequency input, the clangorous sounds of FM are easily achieved. Each oscillator also contains two "glitch" inputs on green jacks, creating sync-like and reset-like sounds depending on the patch. In tandem with the orange jacks, which produce the press and release signals, a world of dynamic and interactive patches is ready to be explored.