Superbooth 22: Noise Lab Formantic formant filter and Tailgater pitch follower

Superbooth 22: Noise Lab has announced two new Eurorack modules, Formantic a formant filter, and Tailgater a pitch follower

Good news from the Swedish developer company Noise Lab. The Tailgater module is shipping now. It bundles various functions, including a pitch tracker & envelope follower, and preamp. is shipping now.

Tailgater is an interesting module for controlling your modular with a guitar.

Features

Accurate audio pitch tracker for various sources like guitar, bass, voice etc.
Low latency conversion of extracted fundamental frequency to 1V/octave
Wide tracking range of six octaves (41Hz – 1318 Hz) from bass guitar’s lowest note (E1) to guitar’s highest note (E6)
Built-in quantizer for precise chromatic scale pitch correction
Analog envelope follower with Attack, Release, and Slew controls
Separate input level control for the envelope follower
Preamp with adjustable gain control (+40dB)
Versatile connectivity options including balanced XLR and 6.35 mm TRS input connectors, and 3.5mm input for – eurorack audio levels (10Vpp)
Sensitivity switch and Threshold level control for GATE and TRIG signals
Outputs for 1V/octave CV, Gate, Trig, Envelope, and Eurorack audio level (10Vpp)
Convenient visual feedback with three-LED input level meter and separate Gate, Trigger, and Envelope LED indicators

Noise Lab Tailgater is available very soon from your Eurorack dealer for 290€.

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Article From July 28, 2022

Update: The Formantic formant Filter module, one of the new Noise Lab modules for this year’s Superbooth, is about to be released. We now have the full features and an official module render image.

Article (17/05/2022)

Noise Lab is a Eurorack company from Sweden that started with the first modules for the Superbooth 20 Home Edition. Two years later, the next series of new modules are coming. Just before the SB22, the developer published Clang, a ring modulator wave folder combo in an 8HP module. For Superbooth 22, Noise Lab announced two new modules.

Noise Lab Formantic

Formantic is a voltage-controlled analog formant filter consisting of two resonant 12dB bandpass filters that can be controlled via a joystick. They are based on the AS3350 and AS3320 filter chips.

Both bandpass filters have individual resonance control, a global gain leveler and you can infuse feedback in the bandpass filter using the dedicated knob. They also have mod inputs with attenuators.

Then, you can set the routing either to use it parallel or serial using the path switch. In the final stage, the signal goes into a 24dB lowpass filter with controllable resonance. This also has independent modulation controls. And a big master cutoff pot controls all filters simultaneously.

Connection side, you have CV controls for the bandpass and lowpass filters, two inputs (A/B), and two outputs. One gives you the complete signal while the other outputs only the bandpass signal. The four CV inputs are normalled to each other.

Noise Lab Tailgater

Tailgater is a pre-amp/tracker module with the ability to follow the pitch. It has a classic Eurorack input and mic XLR input with a dedicated gain potentiometer. Next to this, you have a quantize function and an envelope follower in level.

The built-in envelope can be tweaked using the attack, release, and slew parameters. There is a sensitivity switch with low/high settings and a threshold pot. Connection side, you have an audio output, gate, trig, envelope, and more.

The module is handy for feeding live voices from a microphone or guitars into a modular for processing them further.