Griffin's Claws Quad Attenuator Recorder

Shakmat Modular Griffin's Claws

Griffin's Claws from Shakmat is a versatile quad attenuator and mixer capable of recording, looping, and playing back movements from each individual channel's fader for up to 81 seconds. These movements can be free-recorded, clocked or quantized with an external clock for creating more interesting modulation sources than your standard sync'd LFO. Griffin's Claws features a 4-input 4-output cascading mixer section, each channel sporting its own recordable fader that can be independently moved and routed to it's own destination for mixing audio, attenuating CV, or acting as its own CV source. It can also store up to 16 user presets, saving each faders unique movement for future patching.

Griffin's Claws also features a number of functions that can be applied to these recordings after the fact, such as individual channel output amplitude and rate. Changing the rate of a recording in quantized mode will divide or multiply the recording, maintaining all the fidelity of the original recording's movements. You can also select from a number of time signatures to be used in the Clocked and Quantized modes: 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4 and 9/4. Additionally, you can also translate each fader's movements into sample-and-hold style CV and gate outputs, turning the module into a proper sequencer. More than just an attenuator, more than just a mixer, Griffin's Claws from Shakmat is a quad expression powerhouse certainly worthy of your 12HP.

Griffin's Claws Features

• Quad Recordable Attenuator + Mixer with linear or logarithmic response
• Capable of storing 16 presets with saved fader movement in internal memory
• Free, Clocked, and Quantized recording modes
• Cascade mixing
• Per-channel S&H, Amplitude and Rate control
• External clocking
• Multiple time signatures for quantized sync mode: 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4 and 9/4
• Individual channel mutes for on-the-fly performance mixing