Modulr Pilot

Three oscillators, two filters with a spacing control, and a touch surface with an X and a Y, over forty-two patches that each load the whole sound.

Modulr Pilot is a performance monosynthesizer after the grammar of a 2002 instrument: three oscillators, a mixer, a 24 dB low-pass and a 12 dB high-pass with a spacing control, two envelopes, an LFO and a mod bus, and a touch surface with an X and a Y, with a pitch wheel, a mod wheel and a 44-key keyboard.

Plug-in · VST3 and Audio Unit

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65 controlsevery one can be automated from your music software

42 patcheseach one loads the whole sound

VST3 · AUApple silicon, macOS 11 or later

Hear it

Four sounds, played as they ship.

Each clip is the plug-in itself: a patch is picked in the drawer and loaded, then a short phrase is played on it. The forty-two patches ship in four families, and they hold four distinct sounds, one for each clip here. The artist-named patches are this product’s reading of a sound’s role on the record named, not the artist’s own.

Bass · starting pointBass · subThe bass starting point: two saw and square oscillators in unison, a low cutoff opened briefly by a short filter contour, and a quick loudness decay, played as a bass line.

Lead · starting pointLead · supersawThe lead starting point: three oscillators, two saws and a square, detuned a few cents, with an open cutoff and a short glide, played as a phrase.

Pad · starting pointPad · sweepThe pad starting point: a slow attack and a long release, detuned saws and a triangle, and a slow LFO on the cutoff, played as held chords.

FX · starting pointFX · noiseThe FX starting point: high resonance with noise in the mix and a sample-and-hold LFO on the cutoff, so the filter rings and lurches by itself.

How it plays

One voice, three oscillators, and a pad under your hand.

Three oscillators.Each with an octave, a waveform and a tune, the second and third with a hard sync to the first, and each able to follow the keyboard or hold a fixed pitch.
A mixer with noise.A level and a switch for each oscillator and the noise.
Two filters.A 24 dB low-pass and a 12 dB high-pass, with a spacing control between them, a cutoff, an emphasis, an envelope contour and keyboard tracking.
Two envelopes and an LFO.One envelope for the filter and one for the loudness, and a low-frequency oscillator with five waves, routed to pitch, filter or pulse width by the mod bus.
A touch surface.Drag the puck: X and Y move the amounts you have routed, and the pad, the wheels and the LFO share one bus.
Glide, legato and a bender.Portamento over a time you set, a legato key that moves the voice without striking the envelopes again, and a pitch wheel with a range you choose.
Patches that load the whole sound.Pick a patch and every control moves to it at once; the drawer closes and the keys are ready. Hold to preview plays a patch’s tone on your own MIDI, and when you let go the instrument is exactly as it was.
Services.Choose whether the instrument answers your host’s MIDI and clock, set its output level, and age it.

Requirements

What it needs.

Format	Systems	Licence
VST3 · Audio Unit	macOS 11 or later, on Apple silicon	A licence is needed to make sound. Without one the editor opens and the output is silent.

The drawings

The editor, and the module it becomes.

The plug-in is built. The Eurorack module is drawn, with its macro knobs and the control jacks under them, and is not.

The Modulr Pilot plug-in editor, as it opens — The Modulr Pilot editor as it opens: a honey-maple case, a black panel under a brushed aluminium bar, a blue touch pad, and three rows of knobs.

The Modulr Pilot Eurorack module, 30 HP, in its case — The same study as a 30 HP module: ten macros under a brushed header, a glass touch strip, and a CV jack under every knob.

The editor is the plug-in’s own, as it opens. The module is drawn by the specification’s own kit, and its values are illustrative, not measured. The design is Voyager’s grammar, redrawn in Modulr’s own words, and nothing on it is measured against the instrument.

The instrument it studies

Voyager, 2002.

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

The performance monosynth grammar: three oscillators with octave, waveform and tune, a mixer, a 24 dB low-pass and a 12 dB high-pass with a spacing control, two envelopes, an LFO and a mod bus, a touch surface with X and Y, eight preset buttons and a display.

A black panel with white lettering under a brushed aluminium header that carries a bank of eight blue-lit preset capsules, between two honey-maple cheeks: a blue glass touch strip, ten black knobs with dotted white scales and a CV jack under each, and the jacks in dark trays at the foot.

Three oscillators, each with an octave, a waveform, a tune and a mix
The mixer, with noise and an external input
A 24 dB ladder low-pass and a 12 dB high-pass, with a spacing control, cutoff and resonance
Two envelopes, filter and loudness, and the amp
The mod busses: an LFO with a wave switch, and the mod wheel
The touch surface controller, with an X and a Y pad
A bank of eight presets and a display
The left-hand wheels and a 44-key keyboard

The spec sheet

The module, knob by knob.

The module is a design study and is not built. Its macros are the signature controls a player reaches for, not a generic set; each one has a control jack under it.

Macro	Key	Range	Default
Cutoff	vcf.cut	20 Hz – 20 kHz	20 kHz
Emphasis	vcf.res	0–100%	0%
Spacing	vcf.space	±4 oct	0 oct
Contour	vcf.env	0–100%	0%
Filt Decay	fenv.decay	0 ms – 20 s	200 ms
Osc 2 Tune	osc2.tune	±100 ct	0 ct
Osc 3 Tune	osc3.tune	±100 ct	0 ct
Glide	osc.glide	0 ms – 20 s	0 ms
LFO Rate	lfo.rate	0.05 Hz – 50 Hz	5 Hz
Amp Release	aenv.release	0 ms – 20 s	200 ms

Side	Jacks
In	Note (MIDI), V/Oct (CV), Gate (CV), Ext (Audio)
Out	Out (Audio), Pad X (CV), Pad Y (CV)

The plug-in is built. The module is not.On saleModulr Pilot is a working VST3 and Audio Unit. It is not a copy of any instrument: no maker’s name or logo is drawn on a panel, and nothing is measured against the original. The Eurorack module drawn on this page is a design study and is not built.

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.