{"product_id":"bela-trails","title":"BELA TRAILS : PRE-ORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrails is a polyphonic touch recorder that puts the control of music under your fingertips. It allows melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and control elements to be composed simultaneously through gesture and shape. These gestures can be transformed in space and time, intuitively generating contrapuntal and polyrhythmic relationships across four channels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrails outputs both control voltage and MIDI, enabling it to control a wide range of Eurorack modules as well as hardware and software instruments. Gestures can be stored across 16 scenes for recall and live performance, and used either as smooth, continuous signals or quantised to produce melodic and tempo-synced material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePolyphonic Touch\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the success of its predecessor Gliss, Trails expands the idea of recordable touch control into a fully polyphonic system. Where Gliss demonstrated the expressive potential of touch-based recording, Trails extends this approach into a broader compositional space, offering a new way of thinking about gesture, structure and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its core, Trails features four channels, each providing X and Y position outputs that follow finger movement across the touch surface, alongside a gate output for timing and rhythm. Gestures can be recorded individually or across multiple channels, allowing anything from single-parameter modulation to complex, multi-voice relationships. Recorded gestures may be freely switched between continuous curves and stepped, quantised signals, turning drawn movements into melodies and rhythms using built-in scales or custom tuning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCompose with Shapes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrails’ transformation tools allow gestures to be rotated, pinched or spatially offset while preserving their original character. These transformations can themselves be recorded and applied non-destructively, making them suitable for subtle variation as well as performative intervention. Transformations can also be applied selectively per channel, enabling complex internal relationships to emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTemporal manipulation plays an equally central role. Gestures can be scrubbed, looped and nudged along a timeline, opening up possibilities for rhythmic phasing, shifting loops and touch-controlled resets. Playback speed can be dynamically altered using the Touch Bar, either globally or per channel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDraw Sound \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor macro-level control, Trails includes multiple banks of eight touch-controlled faders, allowing parameters to be set, chained and morphed between using adjustable slew times. This makes it possible to move smoothly between complex states or introduce abrupt structural changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompleting the system is a flexible breakout module, which can be mounted to the left, right or above the main unit, allowing users to tailor the layout to their own Eurorack systems. Positioned between controller, instrument and compositional tool, Trails offers a tactile and deeply musical approach to gesture-based composition, performance and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCore\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Record gestures of up to 40 seconds across four channels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Simultaneously generate melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and control elements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Control Eurorack systems and MIDI-compatible hardware or software\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Per channel: two touch-controlled CV outputs (X and Y) plus a gate output\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Fully customisable voltage ranges for all CV and gate outputs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Per channel: one CV input for modulation and reset \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eGesture recording \u0026amp; playback\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Record gestures individually or across multiple channels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Quantise CV and gate signals for melodic, tempo-synced output\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Dynamically offset the playback of gestures against one another\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Touch control of gesture playback position, speed, and loop points\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Divide and multiply incoming clocks \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eTransformation \u0026amp; smoothing\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Transform recorded gestures using rotation, pinch, and offset\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Non-destructively record and undo all transformations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Filter and smooth gestures to suspend motion in time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eMacros \u0026amp; scenes\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Interpolate between eight banks of eight touch faders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Control eight parameters at once using a single macro fader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Store and recall up to 16 scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eErgonomics \u0026amp; layout\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Outputs housed on a separate panel for flexible placement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Includes a 1U panel for optimised ergonomics in your case\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"Introducing Bela Trails: Polyphonic Touch Recorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GVpvibb5ayk\" height=\"542\" width=\"1390\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BELA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45963575394477,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0606\/3449\/7197\/files\/trails-product-shot-2.jpg?v=1777562715","url":"https:\/\/www.detroitmodular.com\/products\/bela-trails","provider":"Detroit Modular","version":"1.0","type":"link"}