CV Shape Cycle Tool

The 216 Segement Curve Designer invites hands-on editing: draw your own shapes, refine segments, and create anything from simple slopes and stepped patterns to intricate, rhythmic contours. Once your curve is set, the cycle becomes a modulation “engine” that can behave like a traditional LFO, a custom envelope-style shape, or something in between, especially when the curve is pushed and pulled in real time.
Time Warp adds another dimension by letting you modulate the shape of the curve
itself. Time Warp can bend the curve by compressing, stretching, and shifting how the curve is traversed, opening up evolving swings, stutters, accelerations, and subtle drift-like variations without needing to redraw the shape.
For integration and performance control, the device provides trigger and clock options with dedicated in/out connectivity. This makes it easy to sync cycles, reset phases, advance or retrigger motion, and build modulation that locks tightly to your track—or deliberately breaks away for more organic results.
With the End Trig Out jack you can link several instances of CV Shape Cycle Tool to create chains of curves, creating even longer modulation cycles.

In short, CV Shape Cycle Tool combines detailed curve control, expressive timing manipulation, and practical trigger I/O into a single creative playground for building distinctive modulation sources—tailored to your patching style and musical context.

Part of the CV Tool Kit Bundle (12 CV Tools for a great price!)

CLOCK GENERATOR Syncable clock
Clock rate goes from 0.01 Hz (1.67 minutes) to 10Hz (100 mSec). It can sync to host with the rates specified to the right.
The clock is used to set the speed of the curve tracing, rate = one curve cycle
The clock rate can be CV modulated.

SEGMENT COUNT Curve resolution
Set the number of segments; 2 - 16 for the 216 Segment Curve Designer.

TIME WARP Shifting curve distribution the points and segments get shifted, squeezing and stretching the curve into new shapes. Can be CV modulated.

LOOP Automatic restart of cycle
When the curve receives a trig, from the CLOCK GENERATOR or via external TRIG it starts the cycle and then ends. If LOOP is enabled the cycle will repeat.

BIPOLAR Set polarity of output
If set to BIPOLAR the curve has its center line in the vertical middle, and outputs full range negative to positive signal. If set to UNIPOLAR the center is at the bottom and the curve only outputs positive signal.

PRESETS Preset curves
Non-editable preset curves for easy access of common shapes. Can be modified with the TIME WARP knob.

TRACKING CV Input on Backside
When connected, the Tracking CV input disconnects the internal clock from the cycle and instead positions the playhead along the X-axis based on the incoming control voltage. This also affects how the preset shapes are reproduced at their CV jacks.
Tracking Bias +(Unipolar) -/+ (Bipolar) Selects how the Tracking CV is referenced. Bipolar uses the center of the curve as zero, while Unipolar uses the left edge
as zero, allowing the full curve to be scanned from any CV source.