Legendary · study 14 of 43

Modulr Page

A sampler with a light pen, a monitor for drawing waveforms, and two drives for the library.

Modulr Page is a design study after the Fairlight CMI of 1979. It borrows the sampling grammar: a monitor and a light pen in place of knobs, page keys on a typewriter keyboard, a library of sample slots, and a cycle drawn with the pen that morphs into its harmonics.

Design study · not built

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28 HPthe width of the Eurorack module this study is drawn as

10 macrosthe signature controls the module carries, each with its own control jack

7 jacksa note, a V/Oct and a gate in, audio out

The study

The editor, and the module it becomes.

Each study is drawn twice: as a standalone plug-in editor, and as a Eurorack module with its macro knobs and the control jacks under them. Nothing here is built.

The Modulr Page plug-in editor, drawn as a design study — The Modulr Page editor: a dark console with a phosphor monitor, the pen in its cradle, two floppy drives, a cream keyboard below.

The Modulr Page Eurorack module, 28 HP, in its case — The same study as a 28 HP module: a small phosphor monitor beside eight slot keys, ten macro knobs each over a control jack, two jack trays.

Mock UI — drawn by the specification’s own kit, not a screenshot of a shipped editor. Values are illustrative, not measured. The study is Fairlight CMI’s grammar, redrawn in Modulr’s own words, and nothing on it is measured against the instrument.

The instrument it studies

Fairlight CMI, 1979.

The instrument’s own grammar, as the catalogue recalls it: the sections, the controls and the look the study borrows.

The sampling-workstation grammar: a monitor and a light pen instead of knobs, page keys on a cream typewriter, a library of sample slots, a drawn cycle morphing into its harmonic set, and start, loop and release points on the whole sample.

A dark console in 28 HP: a small phosphor monitor in a grey bezel showing the sample with its loop markers beside the title and eight slot keys, a cream plate of ten brown-capped knobs with a CV jack under each, and two dark jack trays at the foot.

A monitor showing the waveform drawn by the light pen, and the harmonic editor
The page menu: the sequencer page and the sample-editing page, chosen by function keys
A typewriter keyboard and a music keyboard
Two floppy drives
A light pen
Sample slots, a library of sounds, with attack, decay and loop points
A sampler voice with a start, loop, pitch, filter and envelope

The spec sheet

The module, knob by knob.

The macros are the signature controls a player reaches for, not a generic set; each one has a control jack under it on the module.

Macro	Key	Range	Default
Start	smp.start	0 s – 4.2 s	0.00 s
Loop in	smp.loopin	0 s – 4.2 s	0.00 s
Loop out	smp.loopout	0 s – 4.2 s	4.20 s
Pitch	smp.pitch	±24 st	0 st
Filter	vcf.cut	80 Hz – 18 kHz	18 kHz
Harm	wave.harm	−100% – +100%	0%
Morph	wave.morph	0–100%	0%
Attack	env.attack	1 ms – 4 s	1 ms
Decay	env.decay	5 ms – 8 s	300 ms
Release	env.release	5 ms – 10 s	300 ms

Side	Jacks
In	Note (MIDI), V/Oct (CV), Gate (CV), Slot (CV)
Out	Out (Audio), Loop (CV), Env (CV)

This study is a study, and it is not built.ProposedLegendary, the catalogue this study belongs to, holds 43 design studies after the instruments of all time, each after an instrument’s grammar and never a copy of it. No maker’s name or logo is drawn on a panel, nothing is measured against the instrument, and the study itself is not for sale: Legendary is the plan that carries the catalogue.

Legendary is the catalogue of the Modulr Synths project: 43 design studies drawn with the specification’s own kit, 33 after the synthesizers of all time and 10 after the drum machines. The makers and years named here are the instrument’s; the names, the layouts and every value are Modulr’s own.