After Later Audio Ornate Criminal Utility Module

Flexible control centre for sequencing, CV, MIDI, quantisation and sound design

The Ornate Criminal from After Later Audio is the next evolution of the popular Ornament & Crime multi-module. The module is capable of running four (different) applications simultaneously, as well as processing two mono or one stereo signal. This is made possible by the Teensy 4.1 platform with the already acclaimed Phazerville firmware. Incidentally, the module’s software is open-source firmware developed by the community; experienced users can, in principle, develop their own apps. There is also ample storage space for custom configurations. The apps cover the following functions, amongst others: envelope, arpeggiator, sequencer, oscilloscope, Turing machine, CV recorder, quantiser, gate delay, MIDI interface, clock divider and much more. The Ornate Criminal is perfect for small systems whose application is reinvented with every patch, larger systems that always require four instances of every function, and, fundamentally, for anyone who needs certain functions time and again but is limited on space.

A selection of the included apps

• Acid Curds – 4-part 8-step chord quantiser/sequencer
  
• Automatonnetz – Neo-Riemannian transformations on a 5x5 matrix sequence!
  
• Backup / Restore – Transfer app and calibration data as SysEx
  
• Calibr8or – Quadruple performance quantiser with pitch-tracking calibration
  
• Captain MIDI – Configurable CV-to-MIDI and MIDI-to-CV interface
  
• CopierMaschine – enhanced version of the digital emulation of a four-stage analogue shift register (ASR)
  
• Dialectic Ping Pong – Quadruple envelope generator (based on the hidden mode of MI Peaks)
  
• Enigma – sequencer based on shift registers (Turing machines)
  
• Harrington 1200 – neo-Riemannian tone-grid transformations of triads
  
• Hemisphere – 2 applets running simultaneously
  
• Low-Rents – dual Lorenz & Rössler modulation generator (Strange Attractor), partly based on the MI Streams Easter EggMeta-Q – two-channel quantiser with scale and note mask sequencing
  
• Neural Net – 6-neuron logic processor
  
• Passencore – Generates chord progressions from LFOs (by sixolet)
  
• Piqued – quad voltage-controlled envelope generator (based on MI Peaks, with added voltage control, additional envelope types, retrigger, additional segment shapes, trigger delay and further functions
  
• Pong – Pong! the arcade classic
  
• Quadraturia – Wavetable quadrature LFO
  
• Quantermain – Quadruple pitch quantiser for external voltages with editable scales
  
• References – Fixed-voltage generator, frequency meter, pitch tuner, tap-tempo calculator, closed-loop calibration.
  
• Scale Editor – Edit and save microtonal scales
  
• Scenes – Macro CV switch / crossfader
  
• Sequins – two-channel step sequencer with 4 patterns that can be up to 16 steps long
  
• The Darkest Timeline – Parallel universe sequencer
  
• Viznutcracker, sweet! – Quadruple ‘Byte Beat’ equation generator that can be used as an audio source to create interesting 8-bit sounds and melodies
  
• Waveform Editor – Edit and save vector waveforms (for LFOs, envelopes, one-shots and phase scrubbing)
  
• Setup / About – check version, change encoder directions, adjust display/DAC/ADC, set screen sleep time