Ampersand Ampersand Wear & Tear

Ampersand Ampersand Wear & TearDive into the heart of sonic nostalgia with Wear & Tear, your personal time machine to the golden age of lo fi soundscapes. Drawing inspiration from the classic charm of cassette recorders, Wear & Tear is your key to unlocking a treasure chest of low fidelity magic. Experience everything from the gentle flutter of tape warble to the gritty charm of sounds that seem rescued from a forgotten attic tape collection. Wear & Tear brings the quintessential

As a standalone unit

providing high corrosion resistance

two-dimensional

the legendary Paperface series from 72/73 returns with the original circuits

all with minimal patching

and one with full TZFM and sync capabilities) — each with multiple independent outputs working as both sound and modulation sources

This clipping stage can be driven continuously using the shape parameter

The audio signals at input 1 and input 2 can be flexibly routed to either or both positions via an internal matrix mixer

The Capacitive Touch Sensor provides multiple touch plates so that external objects can be used as analog or digital control signal sources

and while compact

the rest are -12db/oct band pass filters all with a Q around 4

The original microKORG was well-known for its easy to use vocoder with a dedicated mic and one of the reasons for its unfading popularity