Landscape Stereo Field | Tactile Stereo Feedback Synth, Audio Processor & CV Hub

Stereo Field is one instrument with three separate or simultaneous uses: 1. stereo/quad modular touch plate feedback atonal “synthesizer”, 2. stereo/quad audio feedback processor, and 3. pressure sensitive chaotic CV "controller." Use Stereo Field to manipulate and patch two analog stereo preamp circuits via touch plates. Skin conductivity creates new paths for current to flow. You create “new circuits” and feedback paths in relation to where your fingers are patching. Comes with power adapter.

What it can do

• Create atonal analog feedback

• Create atonal chaotic textures in stereo and quad 

• Touch process incoming stereo audio and quad sources, resulting in distortion, filtering, panning, and rhythmic feedback

• Act as a controlled chaos source for modular synthesizers

• Send and receive CV modulation simultaneously

• Use finger/skin patching to change and alter the incoming and outgoing CV while also processing incoming audio

• Create large chaotic shifts through small gestures

• Foster responsive collaboration, as you’ll simultaneously be reacting to Stereo Field and attempting to control and shape its results

• Results can be similar to distortion, filtering, resonance, high-pass, lo-pass, feedback, sine waves, square waves, pulse width modulation, formants, white noise, pink noise, metallic noise, stereo rhythms, wave-folding, frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, spacial shifts, panning, sub octaves, pitch following — but most of the time these results are very lo-fi approximations, or falll "between effects" or in combinations of multiple effects that can be shifting, feeding back or pulsing in sync with incoming audio during processing.

• Respond to breath or Theremin-esque hovering 

• Create feedback ranging from very high-frequencies (inaudible to humans) down to sub-audio saw waveforms, sometimes simultaneously.

How to use it

1. POWER: Use the included power supply to connect to the DC jack in the center of the back panel. An LED will light beneath the center of the interface.

2. STEREO (¼”) OUTPUTS/INPUTS: Two stereo outputs are located on the left of the back panel - one from each circuit of Stereo Field, as visualized by the overlapping circular touchplates. Two stereo inputs are located on the right side of the back panel.

3. QUAD (3.5mm) OUTPUTS/INPUTS: On the interface, the top row of four jacks are quad audio or CV outputs. The two left channels output the left stereo circuit (L/R), and the two right channels output the right stereo circuit (R/L). Use Stereo Field’s unstable organic qualities as a controlled chaos source for modular synthesizers. The bottom row of four jacks are quad audio or CV inputs. The left channels input left stereo circuit (L/R), and the right channels input right stereo circuit (R/L). Input CV or audio to process through the Stereo Field.

4. TOUCH PLATES: With the Stereo Field, you’ll be making circuits with your body that are not generally "supposed" to be made. You can think of it as circuit-bending with your skin. Keep the volume low to begin, as high frequencies and loud volumes are possible. Start with two hands (or feet, or multiple fingers—one finger on its own will not create sound!) on the gold touch plates, which are left/right mirrored analog stereo circuits. You should hear sound! If you don’t, increase the volume & gain, and make sure you’re using multiple fingers. Every individual has their own personal skin conductivity, which will affect results. Incoming audio can also be "touched" or directly interacted with, which is to say audio will be traveling through your skin to other parts of the circuit. Touch patching with one hand offers less attenuation than patching between two hands (or feet). Experiment with positions, as these parallel mirrored circuits can be skin-patched separately or together yielding vastly different chaotic results in regards to texture, timbre and stereo imaging. 

5. VOLUME & GAIN: There are two volumes, left and right (outer two knobs). The two stereo input gain knobs (two center knobs) shape and affect distortion, drive amounts, internal feedback pitch, and modulation rates, depending on how your fingers are patching. Due to the nature of the overlapping circuits, there is interplay across all four knobs.

6. IO (3.5mm) TOUCHPLATES: The quad inputs and outputs via the 3.5mm jacks have small touch plates leading to and from. These eight rectangular touch plates provide direct touch access to each input/output. 

The faceplate features stunning, interlocking gold-immersion touch circles directly connected to the inner architecture of two independent, parallel analog preamp circuits. These circuits are designed around unique New Old Stock (NOS) analog integrated circuits originally manufactured for vintage car stereos, giving the unit a beautifully distinct, gritty saturation profile. When you press multiple fingers to the plates, you bridge these mirrored circuits, instigating complex analog feedback loops that sweep from slow, rhythmic sawtooth pulses to roaring walls of harmonic noise.

The central layout features four interactive control knobs: two stereo input gain pots that warp distortion thresholds and feedback pitches, and two stereo output volume pots that control interaction dynamics and spatial imaging. Whether used standalone as an expressive drone instrument, patched into a Eurorack setup to output chaotic CV modulation, or used as an inline stereo sound mangler for your external hardware and drum machines, the Landscape Stereo Field delivers an unmatched, visceral connection to physical circuitry.