Livewire has been fairly tight-lipped about their new module, the Dual Cyclotron. The rumor going around is that the design is based on a schematic hastily scribbled on a paper napkin that was reverse-engineered from a charred fragment of circuitry pinched from the site of a purported Roswell UFO crash in 1947.

The net result of this extensive research is the development of the Livewire Dual Cyclotron Oscillation Machine.

Due to the enigmatic nature of the source technology, the machine’s functions are a bit difficult to explain. In general, one could think of it as a pair of non-concentric, asymmetrical low frequency semi-periodic resonators (or cyclotrons) controlling a subordinate pseudorandom voltage generator.

The subsequent output voltage which is produced can be used to modulate VCOs, VCFs, VCAs, or any other devices that is voltage controllable. The Dual Cyclotron can be adjusted for extremely long cycles producing slowly changing soundscapes evolving over long periods of time, or ultrahigh cycle rates for totally sick sideband oscillation.

Every Dual Cyclotron Oscillation Machine is assembled under sterile laboratory conditions and undergoes thorough radiation decontamination prior to shipping.

Availiable at product launch in Doepfer (Eurorack) format with MOTM to follow.

Sound Samples

(Cyclotron controlling a single VCO - it is not used as the sound source in the following samples):

Cyclotron re-creation of the legendary "Lucky Man" solo:

Cyclotron modulation experiment 1


' Edelweiss, Edelweiss':

Cyclotron modulation experiment 2


..and no demo would be complete without the main theme from "Innagaddavida":

Cyclotron modulation experiment 3