DOEPFER / Dark Time

This sequencer features two 8-step controls. It supports USB, MIDI, and CV/GATE. Its compact body, equipped with knobs and switches, allows for intuitive operation.

■ Analog Step Sequencer
■ Red LED

The Dark Time is a compact analog step sequencer with a traditional 2-tier x 8-step layout, compatible with USB, MIDI, and CV/GATE. Its compact body, similar to the company's best-selling analog synthesizer, the Dark Energy, features neatly arranged knobs and switches for intuitive operation.

Its analog-like real-time operation allows you to generate unexpected and wonderful phrases by simply turning a few knobs, offering a ""sensory experience"" and experimentation that transcends the limitations of a 12-tone scale.

■ Features

The panel layout is designed in accordance with classic analog sequencers, with all important controls and switches located on the front panel. The Dark Time excels at ""live"" operation, so there are no small displays or cumbersome menu screens.

Each of the 16 steps has a knob (same type as the Dark Energy), an LED, and two step status switches. The knobs allow for instant setting of pitch, play and skip settings, and the last step. You can loop any range, and manipulate complex performances and polyrhythms in real time.
Each step can be transposed by +/- octave and the playback direction of the sequence (forward/reverse/random) can be set.

The Link switch allows you to switch between three modes:

2 x 8: Independent 8-step sequences for the upper and lower staves

1 x 16: A 16-step sequence linking the upper and lower staves

1 x 8 Combi: Set the pitch with the upper staves' steps, and adjust the note length of the corresponding steps in the lower staves.

The clock divide setting allows switching from 1/2 (half note) to 1/128 (128th note). Dotted notes and triplets can also be set, and the shuffle function allows you to create a ""groove"" or ""shuffle"" feel.

Equipped with CV/Gate, MIDI, and USB inputs and outputs, it can play not only analog synthesizers and synthesizers and sound modules with MIDI terminals, but also software synthesizers running on a computer via a USB cable. Transposition (key change) can be performed in real time via MIDI note messages from the MIDI In and USB terminals.

* MIDI Clock/Analog Clock Converter Function:
Allows synchronization with rhythm machines and sequencers equipped with a clock-in terminal.

* Dark Energy Integration:
Can be integrated with the Dark Energy synthesizer, which has the same body as the Dark Time, allowing it to be used as a compact performance synthesizer.

■Inputs/Outputs

• CV1 In/Out (0V - +5V)

• CV2 In/Out (0V - +5V)

• Gate 1/2 Out (+5V)

• Clock In/Out

• Start-Stop In/Out

• MIDI In/Out

• USB Terminal (Does not operate on USB bus power. Always use the included AC adapter.)

■LED Color

Red