Voltage Labs Unleash Xaoc Devices Budapeszt & Skopje: Superbooth 2026’s Sonic Street Weapons

Skopje isn’t just a dual quantizer—it’s a compositional Swiss Army knife. Each channel is fully independent, with its own controls, inputs, and outputs, and the navigation is gloriously menu-free. You get a Game of Life-inspired screen, a chunky encoder, and a button that lets you flick between channels, scales, and parameters like glide and CV assignment. No deep dives, no headaches—just tactile control and instant feedback.

Where Skopje really flexes is in its scale programming. You can load up to 100 banks, each with 100 scales (if you’re mad enough), using simple text files or Scala files for microtonal action. Mixing and matching is a breeze, and everything lives on a humble micro SD card. The assign input is the secret sauce: use it to switch scales, transpose, or even add vibrato—all in real time. Skopje isn’t just quantizing; it’s sequencing, modulating, and opening up wild microtonal territory. Voltage Labs make it clear: this isn’t just for keeping your pitch in line—it’s for bending the rules entirely.

Budapeszt is still a prototype, but it’s already sounding like a future classic. It’s a dual spectral lattice network—translation: two stereo comb filters that don’t just process, they collide. The magic isn’t in the individual outputs, but in the interference patterns and resonant chaos that emerge when the grids overlap. Voltage Labs’ demo makes it clear—this isn’t your average filter box; it’s a playground for spectral weirdness.

Each comb filter has its own set of controls: frequency, feedback, internal triangle LFOs, and a mysterious spectrum parameter that changes its function depending on the mode. There are six modes planned (eight in the prototype), each with its own flavour—delay lines, ALPOS arrays, bumper filters, and more. You can link or detune the filters, mess with feedback routing, and flip phase for even more mayhem. The result? A module that can turn a polite sequence into a wall of spectral bliss or a snarling, detuned monster. If you want to hear what this thing really does, you’ll need to watch the video—words barely scratch the surface.