YOU HAVE NOT HEARD BERSERK, GRINDING DISTORTION - UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED THE TM-1.

Do you want BRUTAL, CHUNKY sounds? Do you want sounds that NOBODY else can get? Do you want to set your synth sounds or remixes apart?

Our mp3 demos can't do full justice to the violent EVIL the TM-1 is capable of. If you are looking for truly bizarre and neck-snapping sound effects for your remixes; if you want the ultimate industrial grind; or if the polite, well-mannered gadgets from other manufacturers just don't induce fear into your neighbors and your audience, then the TM-1 is just what you needed all along. It's easy to use, small, portable, lightweight, rackmountable - and 100% BIZARRE. (And yes, the TM-1's basic circuit is PURE VACUUM TUBE.) The Metasonix TM-1's circuit is directly derived from the award-winning Metasonix TS-21 "Hellfire Modulator".

The pentode preamp gives pure tube distortion, from soft and creamy to screaming guitar-amp like leads. Just crank the input volume.

The "pulser" circuit injects small, badly-formed pulses on top of the signal, giving an effect roughly similar to very erratic (and violently unstable) VCO sync. Forget getting this effect from another synth, analog or digital; they just can't do it. It sounds out of control, yet it is easily tweaked over a broad range with the PULSER STABILITY knob. Subtle, or gross; a vast range of sonic manglings are at your fingertips. (The pulser circuit works best with sharp-edged electronic waveforms, especially those from digital synths or analog VCOs.)

Finally, a special beam-deflection vacuum tube gives both wavefolding and ring modulation (carrier is provided by an internal wide-range oscillator, or inject your own carrier signal). There is nothing quite like the crossmodulation produced by the beam tube, its nonlinearities and resulting tonal effects are distinctive. Crude and NASTY, too.

TM-1's pulser effect uses a positive feedback loop, so the circuit is not stable under all settings. This allows its use as a self-contained pseudorandom signal generator, by patching its output back to its input. You've read about "strange attractors" and other chaotic sound generation techniques? The TM-1 is the first all-tube chaotic sound generator. The results must be heard to be believed!

Specifications:

Frequency response less than 10 Hz to greater than 40 kHz.

Distortion from less than 0.1% to greater than 100%, depending on control settings and input waveform. Hum and noise less than 0.5 mV.

Power input 10v AC to 12v AC, 50/60 Hz, 0.8 amp at idle--derived from an appropriate plug-in AC adapter.

Inputs: phone jacks for audio input; optional inputs for beam-tube CV, VCA CV, and ring-modulator external carrier (requires at least 10v p-p signal for full effect).

Output: audio, mono.

All Metasonix TM series modules may be used as standalone effects boxes. Or they may be mounted in 5U-high standard modular synthesizers (MOTM, Synthesizers.com, Moog) using our TM-M kit. Or, they may be mounted in Eurorack-based modular synthesizers (Doepfer, Analogue Systems, Analogue Solutions) using our TM-D kit. Our modules are the only ones in the WORLD capable of this.

Dimensions: 7 1/2" (192mm) x 4 3/8" (112mm) x 3" (77mm). Weight not including accessories approx. 5 pounds (2.2 kg).