16 part, 8 stereo voices granular music workstation (with dynamic voice allocation), with synthesizers, granular samplers, wavetables, sequencer, granular effects and analog filter and CV options.
A redesign of the Little deFormer 3.
-New design with more comfortable push buttons.
-Push button keyboard and touch pitch bender were added.
-Adjustable RGB LEDs were added to the push buttons.
-Granular sample player were added.
-Wavetable oscillator with 2 warp parameters and 4 warp modes were added (Serum and Waveedit formats).
-Only 2 different models available: LD Zero Digital (no room for analog filter boards) and LD Zero Analog (room for 2 analog filter boards). No complicated analog options.
-Comes with 2 audio inputs and 4 audio outputs. No additional audio ins/outs are available.
-Only CV in/out via AnaX USB. No internal CV's.
-The analog filter board connector has been changed to a straight type, to save some space.
-It is not compatible with SpazeBoard2.
Each of the 16 parts can be selected to start with either a morphable (sine/triangle/saw/square/feedwave) multi-waveform oscillator with 9 different oscillator types (bright/smooth/resonator/percussion1-3/cymbal1-2/hand clap) , a sampler, an Xfade sampler, a granular sampler, a wavetable oscillator (Serum and Waveedit formats) or a noise generator.
The signal from this goes into 2 multimode resonant filters (25 filter types, including dual and vowel filters for up to 4 filters per voice), and ends up in a VCA.
Each part has a chomatic note range of 10 octaves. Parts can be split over a keyboard and/or be set up multi-timbrally, with each their own MIDI channel and key range.
Each part can be sent to one or two of its 8 audio busses.
Effects can be applied to these busses, up to 10 at a time, to process the synth/sampler parts.
On LD Zero Analog up to 2 optional analog filters can also be applied to the audio busses, for real analog processing.
Audio gain staging can be set to Xtra (LD3 standard) or Normal.
The sequencer comes with 16 advanced note tracks and 32 controller/CC tracks.
For each note on the note tracks, it is possible to set note, gate time, velocity and even position of the step, which allows for polyphonic step sequencing and rhythmic experiments.
At the output of each note track, a scale function are applied, which can force all notes into harmonic scales, or switch notes around for musical deforming. The note track can be up to 64 steps long, and resolution can be set between 1/64 and 1/2.
The controller tracks can be up to 128 steps long, and their resolution can also be set between 1/64 and 1/2. They appear as modulation source for all parameters, which can be modulated.
The sequencer can control both the internal parts of LD Zero and external MIDIgear.
Templates are available to create a startpoint for a sequence and to modify existing sequences.
16 track audio track recording is also possible with the LD Zero sequencer. Each audio track can be automatically chopped, for easy deforming.
Built to last in an aluminium/PCB box.
The Granular sample oscillator
The WaveTable oscillator
