BAGÀI

Multipurpose Thingamabob

bagài / baˈgaːi / s.m. [modenese dialect, from a late Latin bagagium ‘baggage’, formed after the late Latin baga, deriving presumably from the Anglo-Saxon bag (see ancient French bague, Provençal bàgua, ‘bundle’), whose root may be traced down to the Indo-European *pac, ‘to tie,’ from which also ‘package,’ ‘pact’] – ‘thing,’ ‘thingamabob.’ A term used when the actual name of a thing or a person does not come to mind.

A module that is at the same time a clock burst, S&H, audio bitcrush, or fluctuating random voltage generator is indeed a bit elusive to describe in a single word. Even if one tries, some aspects will always be missing.

Why bother, then? Let us just call it “that thingamabob,” or better, “that bagài.”

Description:

Bagài is an analog sample and hold, bitcrusher, and downsampler for Eurorack systems, also capable of generating clock bursts, fluctuating random voltages, and colored noise.

It consists of six highly intertwined sections:

1. A clock with straight and random outputs (yellow)
2. An analog noise generator with variable color (grey)
3. A bipolar fluctuating random voltage generator (white) with variable rate
4. A sample and hold the circuit (orange) with selectable time scale, slow for modulation, or fast for audio sampling up to 48 kHz.
5. An 8-bit quantized version of the orange S&H circuit with variable bit depth (red)
6. A clock burst section (green).

By default, it outputs bipolar random voltages and triggers. The voltages are fluctuating, stepped, and quantized with selectable bit depth. The clocks are straight, randomized, or “burst.”

Once you start patching, you can use it as a S&H, audio downsampler, and bitcrusher, with a sample rate of 48 kHz.

All its major parameters are voltage controllable.

It belongs to the same family as Sapèl, with the following differences.

Spec: