Sketch evolving ambient passages directly from the surface with ETCHES, Puremagnetik's layered soundscape synthesizer built around performance gestures rather than menus.
Its monophonic digital voice combines a complex oscillator with an 80-second multi-splice recorder, overdub, and an internal LFO that moves splice start and end points. Four articulation pads shape contour, timbre, and animation, while twelve scales and modes keep the pads locked to a chosen root note. There are no traditional envelopes or filters; instead, ETCHES leans on hands-on timbral control, soft-clipping overdrive, tape-style delay, and a stereo space processor with reverb.
The open two-PCB desktop build runs from a standard Boss-style 9V center-negative supply and outputs through a single 1/8-inch stereo jack, so a power adapter and stereo breakout cable are needed.
