Shakmat Modular Bard Quartet

Compose and perform complex harmonies with ease.
The Bard Quartet is a powerful quad quantizer designed to bring your harmonic ideas to life. Featuring 4 independent channels and an integrated keyboard, it controls up to 4 different instruments simultaneously, forming a harmonious quartet that follows your musical direction.

Navigate through 8 customizable harmonic progressions with a dedicated potentiometer, enabling the creation of rich, evolving songs. With 320 scales stored across 10 memory slots, microtuning capabilities, and an arpeggiator with octave control, this module is your go-to for expressive melodic and harmonic sequencing.

Key Features

• Quad quantizer with user-editable, independent scales

• Harmony potentiometer and CV input to recall 8 harmonic progressions

• Customizable microtuning

• Arpeggiator with octave spread and mode control

• Octave transpose range: -3 to +3 octaves

• Root note control (firmware 1.1)

• Shared transpose input (per octave, pre/post quantizer)

• Shared gate input for track & hold or arpeggiator reset

• Shared trigger output

• 10 memory slots, each with 8 harmonic sets

• Optional input interactions: normalization or analog shift register

• Supports V/Oct, Hz/V, and Buchla tuning standards

• Tuning mode generating precise 0V outputs (firmware 1.1)

• Skiff-friendly design

• Durable Djtechtools rubber injected potentiometers

Technical Specifications

• Width: 10HP

• Depth: 29mm

• Power Consumption:

  • +12V: 60mA

  • -12V: 10mA

Applications

• Creating rich, evolving harmonic progressions in modular setups

• Melodic sequencing with microtuning and arpeggiator functions

• Multi-instrument control with independent scales

• Performance-ready harmonic control with preset memory

• Integration with various tuning standards (V/Oct, Hz/V, Buchla)