Ritual Electronics Altar

Altar is the second module of young French company Ritual Electronics and is a cooperation with Mathieu Fröhlich, who made the Squarp Hermod. Altar is a derivation from a larger project. Someday there might be a polyphonic (dream) synthesizer...

At the beginning of the development was the consideration to enable more complex movements through the spectrum, but also to equip the filter with a certain "punch". It has therefore:

• At 18dB slope steepness. As a middle course between Oberheim-softness and Prophet V-punch.

• CV-controllable, continuous morphing. From Bandpass to Lowpass to Highpass.

• CV-controllable resonance. This can be used to set TB303-like accents.

• Asymmetrical clipping at the filter input, which leads to a distortion in the filter core.

• Use as Sinewave-Osscillator: When selfresonating the Altar tracks 4-5 octaves.

All these features taken together make the Altar into an easy to play and patch, very inspiring filter.