Let's start by saying that Mescaline is one of the finest times you'll have. It might seem intimidating at first but ultimately once you dive in, you realize there was nothing to fear and it's only here to help open you to extreme possibilities. It's capable of creating entire compositions and the possibilities are vast.

CHANNEL
A 10 note polyphonic synthesizer with a sweet, warm sound and a huge custom designed reverb which also has an audio input and can be used to process external sound. Channel becomes a powerful effects processor with some very nice DSP designs we've been working on for the past year.

MOTION
Motion is made up of two sequencers with simple but fully-capable function and some added function that other things don't/can't perform that help Mental to really shine. Both sequencers have clock division to break the rhythm but perhaps most important is how the trigger sequencer works - using opto-couplers (switches) to trigger parts within Mental to create sounds, textures and rhythms that voltage sources simply can't. It does this by directly connecting multiple parts within Mental. The CV does a great job of synching Channel.

Motion also has sine modulation (vactrol or cv), gate triggers, resets for the sequencers to determine sequence length, and can got into chaotic territory but jumping voltages into the clock inputs.

MENTAL
Capable of so many things. It's an incredibly unique drum synth that will create odd and beautiful beats for days. It's a Drone synth that's generates some incredibly rich drone with multi-oscillation and in-circuit filtering. It's an audio processor that can take any incoming audio and chop it into place, filter it, distort it and screw it in ways that nothing else does.

FRAME
This strong frame is a design which simplifies putting Mescaline together. Designed by Arius Blaze and manufactured by a metal shop in Portland, Oregon. Powder coated black and easily assembled with included nuts and bolts.

INCLUDED
An entire system gets all of the parts and bits and pieces and nuts and bolts to make it all work; the 3 modules, the frame, plenty of dupont patch cables, a small pack of components like resistors and capacitors, 12v power adapter (wall wart), the nicely printed manual and we'll probably throw in something special as a thank you. You'll need to put it together yourself...but it couldn't be simpler. You can even just hand screw, so no tools required.