Legendary · study 07 of 43

Modulr Titan

A weighted keybed, a ribbon and a joystick, with a brass layer and a string layer over one shared voice.

Modulr Titan is a design study after a two-layer, eight-voice polysynth of 1977. It borrows that instrument’s grammar: high-pass and low-pass cutoff with resonance and brilliance, long envelope sliders, preset tabs, a ribbon controller and a joystick.

Design study · not built

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36 HPthe width of the Eurorack module this study is drawn as

12 macrosthe signature controls the module carries, each with its own control jack

8 jacksa note, a V/Oct and a gate in, audio out

The study

The editor, and the module it becomes.

Each study is drawn twice: as a standalone plug-in editor, and as a Eurorack module with its macro knobs and the control jacks under them. Nothing here is built.

The Modulr Titan plug-in editor, drawn as a design study — The Modulr Titan editor: twenty coloured preset tabs, two layers of tabs and sliders, a master column, a ribbon over a 61-key keyboard.

The Modulr Titan Eurorack module, 36 HP, in its case — The same study as a 36 HP module: a strip of preset tabs, twelve knobs in four bracketed groups, each with a jack under it, and two trays.

Mock UI — drawn by the specification’s own kit, not a screenshot of a shipped editor. Values are illustrative, not measured. The study is CS-80’s grammar, redrawn in Modulr’s own words, and nothing on it is measured against the instrument.

The instrument it studies

CS-80, 1977.

The instrument’s own grammar, as the catalogue recalls it: the sections, the controls and the look the study borrows.

The two-layer, eight-voice grammar: preset tabs for brass, strings and organ, a bright-to-dark filter with high-pass and low-pass cutoffs and a brilliance control, long envelope sliders with an initial and an attack level, a ring modulator, vibrato, and a ribbon and touch response for the player.

A wide black panel in 36 HP with cream legends between walnut end caps: a strip of coloured preset tabs, twelve black knobs with cream bezels in four bracketed groups, each pointer in its group colour over a printed arc and a CV jack, and the jacks in two dark trays at the foot.

Two complete synthesiser layers (I and II)
A filter section (high-pass and low-pass cutoff, resonance, brilliance)
A long set of vertical sliders for the envelope and the level
A brass, strings and organ preset row of tab switches
A ring modulator
A sub-oscillator and vibrato
A ribbon controller for pitch and a joystick
Polyphonic aftertouch

The spec sheet

The module, knob by knob.

The macros are the signature controls a player reaches for, not a generic set; each one has a control jack under it on the module.

Macro	Key	Range	Default
Brilliance	tone.brill	0–100%	50%
HP cut	hpf.cut	20 Hz – 20 kHz	20 Hz
LP cut	lpf.cut	20 Hz – 20 kHz	20 kHz
Reso	lpf.res	0–100%	0%
Ring	ring.lvl	0–100%	0%
Sub	sub.lvl	0–100%	0%
Attack	amp.atk	0 ms – 20 s	10 ms
Swell	amp.al	0–100%	100%
Release	amp.rel	0 ms – 20 s	200 ms
Vibrato	vib.depth	0–100%	0%
Touch	touch.amt	0–100%	50%
Layers	mix.bal	I – II	I = II

Side	Jacks
In	Note (MIDI), V/Oct (CV), Gate (CV), Ribbon (CV), Touch (CV)
Out	Out (Audio), Out I (Audio), Out II (Audio)

This study is a study, and it is not built.ProposedLegendary, the catalogue this study belongs to, holds 43 design studies after the instruments of all time, each after an instrument’s grammar and never a copy of it. No maker’s name or logo is drawn on a panel, nothing is measured against the instrument, and the study itself is not for sale: Legendary is the plan that carries the catalogue.

Legendary is the catalogue of the Modulr Synths project: 43 design studies drawn with the specification’s own kit, 33 after the synthesizers of all time and 10 after the drum machines. The makers and years named here are the instrument’s; the names, the layouts and every value are Modulr’s own.