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

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.

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