The Metropolis Complex Multi Stage Pitch and Gate Sequencer is a powerful musical sequencer which draws inspiration from the Ryk M-185 (a Roland System 100m format sequencer). The sequencer features eight “STAGES” with assignable gate mode, pulse count and pitch value and add to that stage specific slide or skip functions and the Intellijel Metropolis can produce some truly interesting sounds.
If you look over to the left side of the module you will see that the Metropolis comes with a full menu of controls and auxiliary modifiers that gives you control at the fingertips to control and manipulate sequencer direction modes, pitch quantization and scale manipulators, clock dividers, shuffle and several other parameters.
The main features of the Metropolis Complex Multi Stage Pitch and Gate Sequencer include
TB-303 style slide (constant time portamento) with adjustable time
Stage skipping (double click slide buttons)
Internal quantizing in any key and a choice of 30 different scales
Can act as a master clk with tap tempo BPM control or slave to an external clock (with BPM detector)
SAVE/LOAD panel settings to EEPROM
Shuffle
Internal clock divider with odd/even/all modes and can also be used to sync stage changes
Sync output (sets output pulse on the first or last clock step of a sequence, used to slave other sequencers via reset)
Two assignable AUX inputs which can control: gate length, transpose, key shift, root shift, sequence length, step divisor and octave offset.
Config menu to set slider pitch range, clock div type, sync type and reset type
All menu actions are one level deep. i.e. press the menu button and spin the encoder. There are no hidden levels or sub menus (except for the CONFIG menu_
All the core original RYK m185 functions are there too. Read more about the original projecthere and here
User replaceable firmware chip
Link header on back to connect to other select Intellijel modules
Really fun, direct way to get hands on with your modular system. High quality construction and great user manual, though it’s pretty easy to figure out just by pushing buttons and pulling sliders.
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