The meander of Flame is a desktop synthesizer with wavetable oscillator, animatable fixed filter bank and live sequencer. The four-voice instrument draws its sound foundation from a wavetable oscillator that can also process user waves. The tone generator can also be operated in unison, which produces extremely fat and chorus-like sounds. Waveform and pitch can be modulated equally via the two LFOs.
The core of the flame meander is the analog fixed filter bank, which primarily contains eleven fixed bands including highpass filters of 24 dB each. Each band can be controlled by the sequencer and edited with an attack/release envelope. The twelve bands are separated from their static behavior by a mixable combination of the two LFOs and the ADSR envelope. Scanning from band to band, jumping abruptly or randomly from one band to the next allow for tonal variations that give the meander a unique selling point. The basic filter type can also be adapted in eight variants.
If desired, the sequencer can record 15 tracks up to four bars long. This includes the synth part with the wavetable oscillator, the audio input, the noise track and each of the twelve bands of the fixed filter bank. In addition, the handy SHOTS function can be used to create a beat effect for all tracks, which can refer to velocity, clock grid, repetition density and gate time. Even more live variation is hard to come by!
Thanks to the two audio inputs, which are designed as Line and High-Z (Guitar), external signals can be animated using Fixed Filterbank, Envelope, VCA and LFOs. From static filter cuts to extremely lively, always modulating filter gradients, everything is possible here. Whether the user applies this freely or with a clear BPM reference is up to him.