Pittsburgh Modular has released the Taiga Keyboard, a 37-note, full-sized keyboard analog synth with a built-in Eurorack expansion bay.
Taiga Keyboard’s larger format provides additional room in the layout, spreading controls out and adding larger knobs for better onstage-centric ergonomics. There are also additional modulation sources, more controls, a full-size 37 key premium aftertouch-enabled keybed, and a modular expansion bay. Just like with the original Taiga, users are mixed on the color scheme, and apparently PM hasn’t addressed the stepping issues with the envelope.
Pittsburgh Modular Taiga Keyboard Analog Synth
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Pittsburgh Modular claims that the waveforms generated by the three Taiga Keyboard oscillators stretch beyond the basic geometric shapes and sounds associated with analog synthesis. Taiga Keyboard waveforms pass through up to three proprietary, cascading waveshapers designed to manipulate their symmetry and harmonic content. In addition, each oscillator includes a six-stage wave folder to add even more complexity. Dedicated coarse and fine controls deliver flexibility and control over the full range of each oscillator.
The Pittsburgh filter has a signature gummy and relaxed sound with no dead spots. It offers a warm, smooth sweep through the full frequency range and a sweet resonance that does not roll off the low end. This generation of the Pittsburgh filter is specifically designed to ensure a remarkable interplay with Taiga Keyboard’s oscillators.
The waveforms generated by the three Taiga Keyboard oscillators stretch beyond the basic geometric shapes and sounds associated with analog synthesis…
Pittsburgh asserts that their new Dynamics technology imparts the Taiga Keyboard with an organic depth and presence. By simultaneously managing both amplitude and harmonic content, the Pittsburgh Dynamics Controller expands beyond the one-dimensional VCA found in other synthesizers, utilizing new advancements from traditional low pass gates to add additional definition and dimension to the voice of Taiga Keyboard.
When used in low pass gate mode, sounds shed harmonic content and become warmer as they decrease in volume. This mimics how sound waves react to their environment. Because of this connection, the Taiga Keyboard sounds more natural or complex compared to other instruments.
The Taiga Keyboard has a semi-modular design with an internally defined signal path. When your ideas grow beyond the pre-defined signal path, a 64 point patch bay opens up a fully modular instrument with access to an even deeper set of features and tools. With the 24hp powered Eurorack Modular Expansion Bay, you can add specific modules to compliment your sound and performance needs,
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Pittsburgh Modular Taiga Keyboard Features:
- Paraphonic synthesizer with unique additive elements
- 37 note aftertouch equipped keybed with full-sized keys
- Fully patchable – use Taiga Keyboard’s components as separate modules with external devices or reroute its internal patching
- 24hp powered Eurorack Modular Expansion Bay
- 64 point patch bay for rerouting internal signal flow and integrating external sound and modulation sources
- Controllable via MIDI, CV, and integrated pseudo random sequencing mode
- Clock-synced arpeggiator
- 3x Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizer developed 100% analog oscillators, each with dedicated coarse and fine controls
- Oscillator waveforms – sine, triangle, and saw – Waveforms can be combined
- 3x Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizer 6 stage wave folder/shaper circuit – folds inputted waves back onto themselves to increase harmonic content
- Oscillators include frequency modulation (FM)
- Noise generator – pitched somewhere between pure white and pink noise. Perfect for percussion or adding a bit of edge to a sound
- Variable state, multi-mode “Pittsburgh No-Dead-Spots” filter (lowpass, bandpass, highpass, modes can be combined)
- Sample and Hold circuit
- 2x Analog ADSR / envelope generators
- Pittsburgh dynamics section
- 2x Dual range analog LFOs with square and triangle wave outputs
- LFO Range High: 2 Hz to 500 Hz Low: 41 seconds to 5 Hz
- Dual Channel Mixer – 2 2-channel mixer and a 3-channel mixer joined together, capable of mixing both audio or control voltages
- Preamp that uses a high gain, soft clipping overdrive limiter circuit to increase the level of audio signals. The preamp can be used to cleanly increase the level of external audio to internal signal levels, or it can be used as an overdrive / limiter for internal signals
- Digital multi-mod tool – modulation control via CV, random generator, and extra LFO and envelope generator
- Internal clock with tap tempo and can be clocked via an external source
- Built-in clock divider
- Echos – 100% analog bucket brigade delay
- Included in the box – 1x Taiga Keyboard, 1x Taiga Keyboard wall-wart power supply, 10x Amazing Nazca Noodles Patch Cables
