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Folktek Mescaline *3 part synthesis and sequencing

Mescaline is a beautiful experimental modular, eurorack-compatible 3 tier synthesis system.

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Folktek Mescaline *3 part synthesis and sequencing

Folktek Mescaline *3 part synthesis and sequencing

Folktek Mescaline *3 part synthesis and sequencing

Folktek Mescaline *3 part synthesis and sequencing

Folktek Mescaline *3 part synthesis and sequencing

Mescaline is a beautiful experimental modular, eurorack-compatible 3 tier synthesis system.

Mescaline is a beautiful experimental modular, eurorack-compatible 3 tier synthesis system.

Mescaline is a beautiful experimental modular, eurorack-compatible 3 tier synthesis system.

Mescaline is a beautiful experimental modular, eurorack-compatible 3 tier synthesis system.

Folktek
Folktek
Folktek
Folktek
4 Campaigns |
Portland, United States
$205,920 USD 425 backers
1029% of $20,000 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal
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Overview
Mescaline is a synth design by Folktek which merges art, design and synthesis into a tool which encourages exploration and experimentation in sound. A synthesizer system with a different approach which works standalone or within the eurorack modular system.

This campaign is over but if you're still interested in the Mescaline system, it can be purchased via folktek.com and includes all of the perks we were fortunate to include via stretch goals: 

http://folktek.com/instruments/symbiotic/mescaline

Folktek Mescaline

If you're unfamilar with Folktek, please see Folktek.com and find us on instagram and facebook.

Note that we will be adding sound samples through the duration of this campaign so check back if you're interested in hearing more.

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This work is created by Arius Blaze and has been continuously developed and revised for two years.

Mescaline is a 3 part synthesis and sequencing system designed for experimentation.

Our offer of this price is lower than the dealer price for the complete system or individual parts. By helping us to pay for the completion of this system, you're becoming a part of the production.

The price of the complete system will normally be $699usd beyond this campaign!!! 

If you missed this campaign, pre-order will be on the folktek site at a pre-order price for a limited time and then regular price beyond that.

 

Stretch goals all achieved!!! (edited):

If we sell 250 complete systems, we're going to add an effect control on Channel for the DSP (in addition to the reverb which Channel was born with) and add a selector to allow you to change from the reverb to another custom designed effect that will allow for further shaping.

(edit: we've reached this goal and will be adding a new control for the dsp effects built into Channel as well as a selector to change from the reverb to another effect.)

If we sell 350, we'll add the effect control as well as 4 total custom DSP effects to Channel which will take the synth to another level sonically and allow it to be a very powerful effects processor for external sound as well.

Accomplished!!! Channel now becomes a much more powerful instrument with a much greater range of sound. featuting 4 effect controls and 4 different effects!

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Composed of the individual boards: Channel, Motion and Mental which are all designed to work together by patching within the system. 

Let's start by saying that Mescaline is one of the finest times you'll have. It might seem intimidating at first but ultimately once you dive in, you realize there was nothing to fear and it's only here to help open you to extreme possibilities. It's capable of creating entire compositions and the possibilities are vast.

  • Each of these boards are eurorack compatible and can be installed in a eurorack system individually or all together. Each has its own eurorack power plug on the back. Each module is 44HP
  • Each of these boards is capable of being powered on a standard 12v adapter. Each has a 2.1mm jack on the back.
  • When used together, all power can be jumped to power all three boards off the same 12v power source or eurorack power source.

 

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(Now with four effects and an added effect knob - The huge reverb, notated delay, glitch and another as yet to be decided.) This will forever be a part of Channel and the entire Mescaline system moving forward.

A 10 note polyphonic synthesizer with a sweet, warm sound and a huge custom designed reverb which also has an audio input and can be used to process external sound. With the stretch goal reached, Channel becomes a powerful effects processor with some awesome DSP designs we've been working on for the past year.

  • A touch-based synth which provides a sweet sounding 10 key oscillation based 10 filtered and reshaped analog square wave oscillators, each with a decay on the amp.
  • Each key is tuned individually and can be tuned to specific notes on the back via tuning trim pots so you can create intervals or pitch arrangements as you like.
  • Master pitch control/control voltage lets you change the tuning of all notes simultaneously.
  • 10 note polyphony and all notes can be triggered.
  • Synthesis passes through any of 4 selectable custom DSP effects - reverb which is huge and near infinite. Reverb controls are mix, feedback and filter (which adds a damping to the signal), and now with the added control, delay. Adding notated tight delay, glitch and another effect which will be decided.
  • 3.5mm jacks represent audio in, audio out, cv in.
  • Jumpable headers for all functions as well as power.

Here is a good demo of Channel solo - also posted below under (((sound)))

https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/sounds-of-folktek-mescaline-3-the-soft-pretty-ambient-reverbed-channel

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Motion is made up of two sequencers with simple but fully-capable function and some added function that other things don't/can't perform that help Mental to really shine. Both have clock division to break the rhythm but perhaps most important is how the trigger sequencer works - using opto-couplers to trigger parts within Mental to create sounds, textures and rhythms that voltage sources simply can't. It does this by directly connecting multiple parts within Mental. The CV does a great job of synching Channel.

 

  • 8 part CV Sequencer
  • 8 part trigger sequencer with multi-add functionality
  • 5 part clock division for each sequencer
  • vactrol-based sine modulation
  • 3.5mm jacks represent clock in, cv sequencer clock out, cv sequencer cv out, modulation out, trigger sequencer clock out.
  • Jumpable headers for all functions as well as power.
  • note that as a eurorack addition, there are many other sequencers in the world that do more without taking up so much HP. This is not recommended as a standalone purchase for use within a eurorack system.

 

 

 

Capable of so many things. It's an incredibly unique drum synth that will create odd and beautiful beats for days. It's a Drone synth that's generates some incredibly rich drone with multi-oscillation and in-circuit filtering. It's an audio processor that can take any incoming audio and chop it into place, filter it, distort it and screw it in ways that nothing else does.

  • Based on the root synthesis of other Folktek instruments Materia, Mentalis and Matter.
  • 17 input points to control synthesis and filtering via the sequencer trigger or cv points as well as the clock division points.
  • removable breadboard to allow for development and experimentation.
  • 4 patchable pots to attenuate signals and gain more control *and/or* create direct patches to create drone scapes or use Mental as an audio processor.
  • volume control
  • 3.5mm jacks represent audio out and two vacant with representative headers to input voltage or audio signals from external modules or audio sources.
  • send Mental to the input of Channel to add reverb to the signal.
  • Jumpable headers for all functions as well as power.

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Metal frame

This strong frame is a design which simplifies putting Mescaline together. Designed by Arius Blaze and manufactured by a metal shop in Portland, Oregon. Powder coated black and easily assembled with included nuts and bolts.

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Extensive Manual with patch sheets and patch examples.

Working with synth enthusiasts here in town, we're puting together a very thorough outline of how everything works. Patch examples include patches created by Arius Blaze to get the ball rolling and provide an understanding of some good ways to meditate on Mescaline.

(((sound)))

Expect more sound to be added.

Worth noting is that no external effects or processing have been used. These are straight recordings into the mixer, flaws and all.

The possibilities are vast so bringing you fresh sound is a task best not stuffed into a day or two. We'll be exploring here and sharing things we discover as the weeks progress.

 

Via soundcloud:

added 3/27 This is Channel alone, playing through the internal reverb. Live recording, no external processing: 

https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/sounds-of-folktek-mescaline-3-the-soft-pretty-ambient-reverbed-channel

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added 3/26 At play with little clicky beats. Single sequence, live recording, no external processing: 

https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/the-sounds-of-folktek-mescaline-2

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added 3/25 This one in particular explores more of the synthesis of Channel and toys with the clock divisions of the Motion sequencers. Live recording, no external processing: 

https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/folktek-mecaline-straight-live-recording

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New sounds will also be posted to the update page as well. (Soundcloud embedding won't work on indiegogo.)

 

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Why Here?

These are expensive boards to create. By pre-ordering, you're helping Folktek make it a reality for you. And you get it first. First run, before dealers and before anyone else and you're essentially getting it lower than wholesale.

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What you get?

What do you want? You can order each board individually, get a couple boards that you like to go into your system or get the entire system with the metal enclosure. Up to you.

An entire system gets all of the parts and bits and pieces and nuts and bolts to make it all work, plenty of dupont patch cables, a small pack of components like resistors and capacitors, 12v power adapter (wall wart), the nicely printed manual and we'll probably throw in something special as a thank you. You'll need to put it together yourself...but it couldn't be simpler. You can even just hand screw, so no tools required.

We've also gone to great detail to include a manual for each module if purchased individually. If you're not ordering the complete system, the complete Mescaline system manual will not be included.

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When you get it?

Having gone through this Indiegogo system before, we have a better understanding of the *actual* timeline to completion and from past experience (Conduit on Indiegogo). We're laying it out here and adding a week here and there because you just never know what will get held up for a minute. From our understanding it works roughly like this:

Indiegogo campaign: 2 weeks (starting 3/22/2017)

Payment completion (when we actually get the money to beging ordering things): 3 weeks

Manufacturing (circuit boards, components, metal work, manuals, boxes): 6-10 weeks

Testing, cleaning, boxing: 1-2 weeks

Shipping (in the order in which orders were received): 1-2 weeks

 

So from the time this campaign ends, to the time we ship is 11-17 weeks. That's an estimate - any number of those things could go faster or could take a hair longer, but we've made it a point to give the long estimate for a reason.

That puts our estimated ship date between June and mid-August.

If you're not into paying and waiting, we completely understand but we ask that if you do proceed, please have patience. We'll post updates as there's something to update about. If you'd rather wait to see these things in the hands of others we encourage it, but we cannot offer this campaign price beyond the campaign.

 

You WILL get your mescaline or modules and we WILL put 100% of our energy into not only getting them finished and out to you asap, but also putting love into the package and making things especially nice.

 

Changes

There will be several changes from the prototypes shown here:

  • Because we'll be reaching our first stretch goal, we'll be adding a potentiometer (knob) control to channel for great effect use. We'll also be adding a header for effect selection.
  • adding a vactrol to channel for triggering.
  • The font on Mental and Motion will be larger.
  • the header text will be numbered.
  • There will be add and subtract buttons added for both sequencers.
  • Mental will have it's primary patchbay expanded by two rows for ease of use.

We're spending this time quadruple checking everything and taking note of things that could be improved, so there may be some other minor tweaks in the end and as we spend the next couple weeks playing, we'll list things here as they come up.

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Thank you for the support - we know you'll enjoy.

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Mental Module Alone

$199 USD
Only the Mental module in Copper or Silver (you choose) with dupont cables, eurorack power cable and manual. If you only have this in life, you'll probably be just fine.
Included Items
  • Mental
Estimated Shipping
July 2017
2 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Motion Module Alone

$199 USD
Only the Motion module in Copper or Silver (you choose) with dupont cables, eurorack power cable and manual. Great for experimentation and instrument design.
Included Items
  • motion
Estimated Shipping
July 2017
0 claimed

Channel Module Alone

$249 USD
Only the Channel module in Copper or Silver (you choose) with dupont cables, eurorack power cable and manual. Nice sound.
Included Items
  • channel
Estimated Shipping
July 2017
2 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Mescaline System

$449 USD
Lower than our dealer price: The Complete Mescaline system in Copper or Silver (you choose) with metal enclosure, nuts and bolts, 12v power, bound manual. normal Price = $699
Included Items
  • Complete Mescaline System
Estimated Shipping
July 2017
306 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Two Complete Mescaline Systems

$898 USD
Get two. Your choice of one silver, one copper or both silver/copper. Lower than our dealer price: The Complete Mescaline system in Copper or Silver (you choose) with metal enclosure, nuts and bolts, 12v power, bound manual. normal Price = $699
Included Items
  • Two complete systems
15 claimed
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EARLY - Mescaline System

$399 USD
Estimated Shipping
July 2017
100 out of 100 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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