Door To The Stars

Expander for the Manifold Research Centre Tetragrid

Door to the stars - Travel guide

Door to the stars is an expander that opens 6 einstein-

rosen bridges (aka wormhole/portals/time dimensional

path/ and so on...) for the tetragrid.

What is it?

This technology allow you to send external cv inputs to

perturbate the complex gravitational interactions of the

tetragrid star map system.

It is a one way travel, nothing gets back, at least not on

this plane.

Each one of the portals/inputs (right side) can be opened

and closed through its correspondent hyperspace switch

(left side): up is open, down is closed.

The inputs are normalled down, so if for example only

the first input is patched, the signal is cascaded to inputs

2,3,4,5 and 6. If you don’t want this, you can still

disengage the unused inputs through the switches.

Event Horizon

Once your cv has been sent through the portal, it will

appear to its correspondent pad on the playing board

(follow the MAP). Now, through the magnetic pins, you

can connect it to its surrounding pads, affecting the

internal tetragrid behaviour.

Behaviour

You can now gravitationally bend the tetragrid to external forces.

The behaviour of the cv input is susceptible to the magnetic

patching on the tetra grid. Which means different results can be

obtained, such as stalling the outs over a certain threshold (or

even the opposite, where the tetra runs only when the threshold is

met) , or forcing a reset of the tetra grid cycles (similar to the sync

on a VCO).

Slow rising/falling CVs can lead you to FM-like behaviours, as

increase/decrease in speed.

The threshold that the tetra grid is looking for is around 3 volts.

But again, this will all depend on the patching!

The use of the hyperspace switch adds a lot of playability, it can

bring you to unexpected results very quickly.

Due to its nature, only the unipolar side of a signal will interact

with your tetragrid. The inputs are scaled down and rectified, so

you can still send +10V/-10V signals into the expander without

having to worry.

So as you can see, full control cannot be achieved, the tetragrid will

remain a chaotic system, on which you can now introduce an

external set of rules.

How to wire your star gate system

Door to the stars has 2 pin headers, the upper one is a 2x4 header,

this is where your cv is going to travel through, and needs to be

connected to the tetragrid 2x4 header (the donut is showing the

orientation, make sure you are matching them).

The lowest one is a 2x5 power header, the orientation of the red

stripe (-12V) is marked by the white silk screen line.

Thanks for the attention

Happy Travels

hail the donut.

MRC

https://www.signalsounds.com/manifold-research-centre-door-to-the-stars-eurorack-expander-module-tetragrid