Caress of Stars is fully featured, compact Eurorack sequencer in a novel, playable format. It features both tactile buttons, as well as a precise touch strip. It's a Eurorack native, with a combination of functions that fit working with continuous voltages and atonal music, x0x style gate patterns as well as traditional note events. It's perfect as a main brain for a small case, with expansion capability that will let it grow into a central control point for a large system. With an optional stand-alone enclosure CoS can also work with a case that has no 1U capability or a semi-modular synth.

Specs at a glance

• 48HP, Intellijel-compatible 1U, standalone option
• 4 built-in channels with expansion capacity
• CV, gate and combined CV+gate modes per channel
• 4 pages of 16 steps, for a total of 64 steps
• Live recording, step editing, x0x style gate programming
• Trigger probability and conditions
• Continuous or quantized CV input
• Looping
• Quick save/recall
• Adjustable 1-5 octave range
• Internal or external clock
• Quick mute and arm-then-apply mute
• Per-channel clock division

...and more coming as Arcane Devices keep developing the firmware.

What makes it special

The biggest distinguishing factor between Caress and other sequencers is the high precision touch strip, which, for us, feels like the most natural, quick and fun way to play out your CVs. It's especially great for note ties/glides, or when used without a clock, as a touch controller. Of course, to serve as a main sequencer, it does also have all the features you'd expect: CV values can be quantized to scales, each channel can easily be muted, a looper feature lets you loop specific part of the sequence (again, super fun to do with touch strip!), you can set different clock divisions and sequence lengths per channel. Arcane Devices keep building more features and intend to do so beyond the release.