Stylophone presents the Beauty & the Beast of all filters. The “Beauty” is a smooth discrete analogue recreation of a 2045 (24 dB/oct) LP filter, while the “Beast” is Stylophone’s proprietary analogue GEN R-8 (12 dB/oct) filter that can snarl and howl in all modes (LP, BP, HP, NOTCH). Stylophone then decided to combine the 2045 Lowpass filter with the Highpass of the GEN R-8 to create three additional filter types: a Bandpass (BP+), a phaser-like Band Reject (BR+) and a very wide Notch filter (NOTCH+), resulting in some truly unique filter sounds.

Both filter channels offer all eight filter types and are controlled by two full ADSR envelopes with multiple trigger modes to cater for every need. They can be triggered by a gate signal, by an audio signal threshold, by a manual trigger button, and they can even auto-repeat in a loop mode acting as LFOs.

Added to this are two built-in White Noise sources, a Sample & Hold modulation source with its own Slew parameter and a modulatable crunchy PT2399 Delay, creating a unique filter unit that does far more than just filter sounds. It’s a sound source in its own right—using noise, self-oscillating delay and filters, it can produce anything from a whisper to complete sonic mayhem.

Like all of Stylophone’s Compact Portable Modular (CPM) units, it can run on batteries, an external PSU or a Eurorack power bus. In addition to a stereo Line Level output, it includes a stereo phones out socket for monitoring over headphones and a compact 2-Watt built-in speaker.

Stylophone’s innovative enclosure design features side ribs that can be meshed and locked so multiple CPM units can be connected to quickly set up a flexible system. Pairing the CPM DF-8 with a CPM DS-2 provides all the building blocks of a core analogue modular synthesizer system in a compact and portable format.

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