BelaGliss 1U Open-Source Touch Controller

Bela Gliss 1U

Gliss 1U from bela.io delivers the same impressively flexible and unceasingly fun touch controller for Eurorack systems, now in a format perfect for your Intellijel 1U row. Get up close and personal with your patch using Gliss's four performance modes to create touch-activated changes and recordable modulations aplenty. Thanks to its high-resolution, proprietary sensors and cleverly expansive feature set, Gliss 1U excels as a primary controller for small systems, and brings expressively human modulation to otherwise mechanical systems of any size.

The proprietary Trill Touch sensors from bela.io make Gliss a joy to touch and use, with lightning fast response and high resolution for a seamless connection in any of its four performance modes. In Control mode, Gliss is an immediate touch-activated control for any parameter in your rack. Record mode lets you record and loop gestures for complex LFO shapes, or trigger your recorded motion for handmade envelopes. In Signal mode, Gliss is a potent signal processor, letting you offset, scale, and even clip signals like a character-rich, touch-activated VCA. Finally, Notes mode provides a 5 stage tunable voltage controller, perfect as a small keyboard or sequencer in any patch.

In the intuitive menu settings for Gliss, there are plenty of options for scaling output CV and adjusting module behavior in each mode. Because the module is open source, you can even dream up your own functions and experiment with them on the Gliss. Whether you are craving complex modulations or simply want to make your filter knob infinitely more accessible, Gliss 1U is ready to become the perfect controller for expressive and tweak-worthy parameters of your patch.

Gliss 1U Features

• Open-source touch controller & gesture recorder for Eurorack modular synthesizers
• Intellijel 1U format version
• Based on Bela's renowned Trill touch sensing technology
• Touch surface is sensitive to touch position and surface area ("pressure")
• Ships with four performance modes:
  • Control: generates CV and gates based on finger position and touch size/"pressure"
  • Record: draw modulation via gesture recording, with a record buffer of up to 60 seconds
  • Signal: visualize, scale, offset, and smooth external voltages
  • Notes: produces five fixed, user-configured voltages for keyboard or step sequencer functionality
• STM32 Cortex-M4F microcontroller for robust programmability and control
• 24 RGB LEDs behind the panel for signal visualization
• Micro USB socket for firmware updates and customization
• Learn more about how to use and customize Gliss at bela.io