Wiretap

Two-channel trigger generator / CV-slope analyser

Wiretap is a 2-channel slope detector and trigger / gate generator.
Patch Wiretap between any pitch CV source and its destination. Wiretap will track that CV and send a new gate or pulse whenever it detects a significant change in voltage.

You can use these gates / pulses to trigger envelopes or drum voices, drive sequencers, reset LFOs, to name but a few possibilities. Melodies are transformed into rhythms, making Wiretap an ideal companion to sequencers that don't have a gate output, or as a core component of generative composition projects. It is also the perfect partner for our CVilization utility module!

Wiretap tracks any CV you care to send it while you tweak the input signal's controls, and creates appropriate triggers / gates in real time.
You can use Wiretap to generate rhythmic patterns from all kinds of CV signals: LFOs, random voltages, sequences and even manually swept voltages. Or mix all of the above together and send the resulting signal through a quantizer.

Wiretap features two channels, with separate inputs feeding a pair of slope detectors. Each channel has its own through-jack mirroring the unprocessed input CV, as well as three different gate / pulse outputs. With nothing connected to input 2, channel 2 is normalled to input 1 so that all six trigger outputs process input 1.

The Gate Time knob lets you adjust the gate length from short trigger pulses to longer gates regardless of the input signal.

To round off Wiretap's feature set, there are two hold-release-envelopes, which are actually simple envelope followers with a very short attack and an adjustable release phase (which acts like a decay when pulsed). This means that the maximum level of the envelope is influenced by the input signal.