Character TXTR
Character txtr: main parameter page.
CHARACTER with a texture stage. The chain is fold → texture → saturate → tilt → compress → width → mix, and every knob of CHARACTER is unchanged. The one addition is TXTR on page 2, a lo-fi texture (mu-law companding, bit reduction, a sample hold and a blur) after the fold. At TXTR 0 the stage is skipped and the result is bit-identical to the plain station.
Access
An effect on a track: select the track, press FX1, and pick CharTxtr
from the chooser. It takes DJ EQ's id, which one module can hold. Not in an official
remix; build the test remix character-txtr. Hardware: cursory testing on Sam's MKII (owner report, 16 Oct 2026). Four of them beside the reverb price a core at 2,751 of the
3,120 cycles usable, and no hardware has run that load.
FX1 SETUP with CharTxtr selected: TAPE, KEY, KLVL and TXTR on its page 2.
Operation
- TXTR is one knob driving both of the texture's sliders: 0 is off, and turning it up quantises from 16 down to about 4.1 bits, lengthens the sample hold from 0 to 31 samples (one hold for both channels), and adds the blur.
- The rest of the page 1 and page 2 knobs are CHARACTER's.
Parameters
| Page | Knob | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DRV, FOLD, WDTH, COMP, TONE, MIX | as CHARACTER |
| 2 | SAT, KEY, KLVL | as CHARACTER |
| 2 | TXTR | 0-127, default 0: texture amount; 0 skips the stage |
Screen Reference
Character txtr: effect selection and setup parameters.
Status: on hardware: cursory testing on Sam's MKII (owner report, 16 Oct 2026).
Module facts (developers)
Character plus TXTR (Airwindows Pockey2): fold, texture, saturation, tilt, compressor, width.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Author | sambanks |
| Category | Effects: on a track |
| Kind | dsp_effect |
| Test status | on hardware: cursory testing on Sam's MKII (owner report, 16 Oct 2026) |
| FX2 ID | 0x0d |
| Parameters | DRV@0, FOLD@1, WDTH@2, COMP@3, TONE@4, MIX@5, SAT@6, KEY@7, KLVL@8, TXTR@9 |
| Included in | no official remix |
On GitHub: https://github.com/sambanks/octabam/blob/main/modules/character-txtr/README.md