#Blue lantern modules plus

It’s fairly pricy, but you’re getting a hell of a lot for your money, not least the fact that it feels special to use. The Orobas is strictly limited edition, partly due to the scarcity of the vintage valves. Things get most fun when you start to push into dirtier distortion, either by switching the plate bias to different settings or exploring the Evocation function, which feeds the output of the second channel back into the first to create some beautiful filth.

It’ll do duty as a standard VCA, a four-channel valve mixer, mild saturation, or even compression with a sidechain input. They’re used here to create a versatile dual-channel amplifier module which proves to be so much more than a VCA, thanks in part to the ability to run the two channels in parallel, series, or with one feeding back into the other. The unique design is based on that pair of ‘sharp-cutoff pentode’ valves, whose design and use for audio amplification can be traced back to the earlier 6J7 valves of the 1930s. Even by the eclectic standards of Eurorack, this is a module which does things differently you know you’re looking at something special as soon as you open the fancy shipping box and slip the new-old-stock RCA 6SJ7 valves out of their fabric pouch.Īnimal Factory describe the Orobas as a dual VCA first and foremost, but that’s almost painfully reductive.

#Blue lantern modules plus

This month’s best Eurorack module releases include a brilliant analogue delay from Erica Synths, top-quality staples from Blue Lantern Modules, Blood Cells Audio and System80, plus a jaw-droppingly gorgeous valve module from Animal Factory.Īnimal Factory’s Orobas stands out this month for a lot of reasons.