Doepfer A-188-1 BBD

Unusual ’70s-style solid-state delay module.

Ultra-precise model of a rare and exciting style of analog delay effect

Six different models in one module

Great for dirty delays, sharp slapbacks, whooshing swirly ambience, or utter craziness

 

It’s time to take control of time itself, with the Doepfer A-188-1 Bucket Brigade Device for Softube Modular. Our officially licensed software version of the BBD module represented a new challenge in terms of component by component analog modeling, and the results were worth the effort.

By passing your signal along a line of capacitors, the BBD delays your sound in time, but also degrades it with high-frequency loss and additional noise (as well as noticeable sample-rate reduction and aliasing at high delay times). This creates a warm and dirty effect, much sought after in the mid/late '70s, and still loved.

 

"There’s so much more to this delay than you might imagine — a self oscillating joy that opens up your rack into a spacious bouncing new world of sound, and as crunchy and dirty as you might imagine. Wonderful!"

Robin Rimbaud a.k.a. Scanner Producer, DJ, remixer and artist

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In short

  • Made for Modular, Softube's Eurorack platform. Learn more about Modular

  • Ultra-precise model of a rare and exciting style of analog delay effect

  • Can be used within synth patches in Modular, or for processing external audio in Modular FX

  • Six different models in one module

  • Great for dirty delays, sharp slapbacks, whooshing swirly ambience, or utter craziness

  • Build your own flanger/chorus for guitars, drums, or any other audio source

  • Take advantage of the disadvantages of this special design – use the BBD as a bitcrusher or distortion unit

  • Keep the original noise bleed, or simply switch it off

Doepfer A-188-1 BBD

Unusual ’70s-style solid-state delay module.
€39.00

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System Requirements

  • Ventura 13, Sonoma 14, Sequoia 15
  • Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11
  • Softube account
  • iLok account
  • Computer with AU, VST, VST3 and/or AAX compatible DAW host software
  • Internet access (for downloading installers and managing licenses)

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