The ReSynthesizer can trace its origins to Spring 2023, with Walker and Rodent putting together a collection of modules to announce and demonstrate the Soundhack Spectraphon at Superbooth ‘23. We knew that these modules would need to complement Spectraphon in a way that would show its true capabilities. As such, this specialized layout comprised a single-system overview of the last 8 years of Make Noise module designs.

After Superbooth Walker and Peter continued to use a similar system configuration in videos for our Youtube and Instagram Channels, prompting some folks to speculate if it was to be our new 7U system. At that time we had no plans for a new system; in fact, this layout had been intended as temporary all along, but we found that it made a useful layout in almost all cases and so we continued using it in videos anyway. (The layout even gained the popular unofficial moniker “System X” thanks to the speculative work of Cinematic Laboratory and others.) Choices like the unusual placement of the Morphagene, adjacent to Spectraphon, which we initially assumed would be mainly for a very specific use-case, quickly became second nature to patch. The Spectraphon and Morphagene work together to ReSynthesize raw materials into lush soundscapes, microsound manipulations, or wherever the path leads.

Features:

• Voltage Controlled DSP (Digital Signal Processing)
• Voltage Controlled Spectral Analysis/Resynthesis/Noise Generation: Spectraphon
• Voltage Controlled Stereo Repeats and Halos: Mimeophon
• Voltage Controlled Stereo Granularization: Morphagene
• Complex Random Voltage Generator: Wogglebug
• Dual Analog Control Voltage generator: MATHS (x2!)
• Voltage Controlled Panning, Crossfading, and Mixing: X-PAN
• Polyphonic Time Shifting: TEMPI
• New School Sequencing: René
• Human Expression/Control: PrssPnt
• Stereo Low Pass Gating and Mixing: DXG
• Horizontal Control Signal Distribution and Indication, plus Final Outputs: CV Bus
• Voltage Controlled Multi-Mode Multi-Peak Stereo Filtering: QPAS
• 4 Zone 7U CV Bus case w/ original power supply and AC Adapter, Ready to Play
• Blanking panels as appropriate (selection may vary)
• Ships with 30 high quality patch cables
• Comes with Lid, Highly portable, Meets requirements for carry-on luggage

Specs

• Size: 7U
• Total HP: 208 @ 3U, 104 @ 1U
• Dimensions: 22.25? x 14? x 7.25? w/ lid

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Bruxa is a collaboration between Make Noise and Alessandro Cortini. Inspired by Cortini’s music and sonic experimentations, Bruxa embodies the seen and unseen, the sign and magic, the alchemy of sound. It is a new evolution of Tony and Alessandro’s original prototype circuits which eventually became the Strega’s Time/Filter Experiment. It is a multi-tap delay line with over a dozen unique feedback paths and multiple filters within those feedback paths aligned to allow for accumulation of noise, saturation and signal degradation.

While Strega is a complete synthesizer in a tabletop form factor, Bruxa is a Eurorack module designed to be used as one part of a Eurorack modular synthesizer. You will discover a number of differences in layout, signals, and sound. Living inside the Eurorack modular system, Bruxa encourages you to patch your own sound and modulation sources, yielding results surprisingly distinct from Strega.

• Echoverb signal processor which shares origins with Strega
• Well tuned to work nicely in a Eurorack modular system
• All analog dry signal path blended with digital/ analog hybrid signal processor
• Analog CV inputs with wide range capable of audio rate modulation
• Time control with massive, smoothly variable range
• Linear FM input with attenuator allows for fluttering of Time
• Absorb and Filter controls dramatically shape the echo tone and reflections
• New unique CV outputs for use in self-patching or mutual patching with other modules
• Pairs well with DPO, STO, MATHS, Prss Pnt, modDemix and more!

Specs:

• Width: 18hp
• Max Depth (incl. power cable): 48mm

Power:

• 140mA @ +12V
• 90mA @ -12V

Manufacturer Product Page HERE

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Features

• Scale, amplify, attenuate, or invert an incoming signal using Channels 1 or 2
• Generate DC offsets when Channel 1 or 2 is unpatched
• Crossfade between two signals, or attenuate one signal, using Channel 3
• SUM and INVerted Sum Bus for addition, subtraction, mirroring, inversion etc.
• Individual Channel Outputs for Channels 1 and 2 allow independent use of all three channels
• Anywhere you need more subtle modulation, Ch. Svr is there for you… now all your eurorack slivers may have subtle and intentional modulation they deserve!

Specifications

• Width: 6hp
• Depth: 30mm
• Power: +12v 20mA / -12v 10mA

Manufacturer product page here.
Product manual here.

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The basic function of PrssPnt will be familiar to anyone who has used Pressure Points or 0-CTRL. It could be seen as a single “souped-up” channel of one of these devices. Since it is a single channel, the tuned voltage outputs are not relevant, and instead are replaced with more playable sensitivity controls and alternate pressure and gate outputs.

Features

• Momentary Gate output remains high as long as it is being pressed
• Toggled Gate output goes high and low with each successive press of the plate: press it to make it go high, press it again to make it go low
• Pressure output generates a positive control signal proportional to the amount of Pressure applied, further tailored by the Sensitivity Panel Control
• Smooth Touch Function recreates the useful patch of sending a Pressure Output through a carefully tuned slew limiter for extended function generation
• Turning up the Slew amount will allow for larger than life functions with very long decay to be generated by hand.
• All four outputs available simultaneously

Specifications

Manufacturer product page here.
Product manual here.

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Unique to the DXG is a new low pass gate circuit that does not use vactrols. This circuit is 100% analog and its response was arrived at after many months tailoring it to meet or exceed the expectations that have been set by all the vactrol low pass gates that Make Noise has created over the years.

In the past, Make Noise produced the Dynamix module and Dynamics circuit in the 0-COAST, both of which are vactrolless LPGs; however, the DXG is a completely new approach which better implements the gentle single pole filtering of a low pass gate, while also emulating the slow decay and memory of the vactrol based low pass gate. This new circuit makes possible the consistency of response necessary for versatile stereo use, while also keeping the module small and affordable so that it can be a key part of just about any modular system.

As on all of our low pass gates, the DXG’s Control parameter is used to set both the amplitude and the frequency content of the sound that passes through it. The control parameter tends to open faster than it closes, imparting a subtle decay phase onto any envelope shape that is used to modulate it.

Unlike previous low pass gates made by Make Noise, all the DXG’s inputs and outputs are stereo. Each set of inputs is normalled so that the left input can be used for a mono signal, sending a copy to both left and right outputs. The Auxiliary inputs are also a stereo pair with mono normalization. These normalizations allow for the DXG to be used as a simple three channel stereo mixer, with one or two of the channels additionally being used for dynamics control and note event generation. The Aux inputs can be used to chain together larger decentralized mixes using additional DXG modules, or X-PAN, Optomix, modDemix etc.

Features

• Our first Stereo Low Pass Gate
• Vactrol-free design for classic Low Pass Gate sounds, but with the balance and consistency needed for true Stereo
• Fully Stereo i/o for easy integration into a Stereo-equipped modular synthesizer
• All Left inputs normalled for easy use with Mono signals
• STRIKE INput allows use of Gate signal to trigger Low Pass Gate circuit, creating “plucking” or “pinging” sound from any Gate.
• Summing stage with Stereo AUXiliary IN allows for chaining of multiple units, creating larger mixes
• Part of a decentralized mix console integrated throughout the system along with X-PAN, Optomix, XOH, etc.
• Pairs well with XPO, QPAS, Morphagene, Mimeophon, Spectraphon etc.

Specifications

• Width: 8hp
• Depth: 43mm
• Power: +12v 74mA / -12v 86mA

Manufacturer product page here.
Product manual here.

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The multiple section of the CV Bus was originally designed in 2013 for Alessandro Cortini’s personal Make Noise system. It provides visual indication of level, rate and polarity for up to 4 control signals that will be shared throughout a patch. These 4 control signals are color coded and distributed across the center of the system allowing for quick, clean and intuitive patching. The distribution method is unlike the typical multiple since the control signals will appear beneath their possible destinations allowing for the use of shorter patch cables. The color coding and visual indication makes navigating complex patches easier and more intuitive. Typically, the CV Bus would be used to share the most important control signals in a patch such as your Master Clock.

This new version of the CV Bus also includes useful modular utilities:

The Voltage Math is found at the left end of the CV Bus. Like the similar circuit on the 0-Coast, it is a small collection of universally useful modular utilities. The two inputs are summed at the output, one at unity and one adjusted by the input attenu-verter. The attenuverted input is also normalled to a DC offset, for purposes of level shifting, voltage mirroring etc. The output strength and polarity is indicated by the Green and Red output LEDs.

A high quality Stereo Line Driver converts powerful modular synthesizer signal levels to the commonly used Line Level. There are mini-jack inputs for Left or Mono, and Right for Stereo sound, a single master volume control, as well as a stereo line output pair, and finally a TRS line/headphone out on a single jack. This output is capable of driving a long cable out to a PA System or a set of Headphones. It is AC coupled with a built-in limiting circuit (with visual indication) that prevents damage to ears and PA system when the patching gets experimental.

Specifications

• Size: 7U
• Total HP: 208 @ 3U, 104 @ 1U
• Outer Dimensions: 56.5cm x 35.5cm x 18cm w/ lid
• Max Module Depth: 64mm
• Weight: 5.78kg (w/ powered bus board, CV Bus installed)
• Power: +12VDC @ 4A, -12VDC @ 2.4A and +5VDC @ 1A
• Connectors: 32
• Includes: CV Bus, Powered Bus Board, 120 Sliding M2.5 nuts w/ Black screws, AC Adapter

Manufacturer product page here.
Product manual here.

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The Spectraphon is the first module to be built by Make Noise on its new digital hardware platform. This hardware, engineered by Jeff Snyder and Tony Rolando, provides more i/o at higher resolutions, and a lower noise floor than we have ever had access to in a digital module, allowing us to unleash Tom Erbe’s DSP code to a previously unattainable degree.

The Spectraphon has two nearly identical sides, A and B, which oscillate in one of two ways: Spectral Amplitude Modulation (SAM), or Spectral Array Oscillation (SAO). In SAM, instead of oscillating at all times like an analog VCO, sound at the Spectraphon’s input is used to modulate the amplitude of a set of harmonics. In SAM the Spectraphon can be sequenced and frequency modulated like any VCO. At any time the current spectrum can be used to create an Array for later use in SAO mode where the Spectraphon oscillates at all times, with the spectrum at the Odd and Even harmonic outputs being drawn from those stored Arrays.

The Slide and Focus controls are mode-dependent: in SAM, they determine how the Spectraphon responds to sound at the input for Spectral AM, while in SAO, they are used to modulate the Array.

In either mode (SAM or SAO), the Partials control works as a combined amplitude and timbre gate for the Odd and Even harmonic output and the FM Bus will create high definition internal frequency modulation from the opposing side of the Spectraphon. The two sides can also interact via the internal FM Bus, the Follow and Sync modes, and by patching them together.

Features

• Dual Digital VCO with eight simultaneous outputs, as well as two audio inputs, two gate inputs and ten CV inputs
• Built on Make Noise’s new digital hardware platform, the most powerful digital module we have yet created
• Coded by Tom Erbe of soundhack
• Spectral Amplitude Modulation (SAM) creates spectral oscillations based on continuous analysis of the audio at the input
• Spectral Array Oscillation (SAO) creates spectral oscillations based on stored sets of spectra called Arrays, which are created in the SAM mode
• Each of the two VCOs operates independently in SAO or SAM, in any combination
• High definition internal Frequency Modulation Bus with easy access to Harmonic Ratios via the Tuning Beacon
• Sub-Oscillator/CV outputs give access to unique sub-oscillator shapes, envelope following, or clockable modulation sources
• Sine and Sub operate independent of FM Bus modulation.
• Follow and Sync operations on Side B for ease of use in dual oscillator patches, tuned FM, hard sync sweeps etc.

Specifications
Width: 34hp
Depth: 36mm
Power: 230mA @ +12V, 55mA @ -12V

Manufacturer product page here.

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Features

• Fully analog and patch programmable, no menus or modes, what you patch is what you get!
• Sequence and Control the Pitch, Strength, and Time of your synthesizer voice, per step
• Voltage control over Stop and Direction
• Dynamic Reset, select Reset Step while sequencing
• Pressure and Touch Gate outputs for human generated events and expression
• Dynamic Envelope and Gate outputs allow for voice loudness/ strength per note
• Gate output per step for patch programming sequence behavior and triggering unique events per step
• Synchronize the 0-CTRL via the Clock In, or clock other machines with the Clock and/ or Gate Outs
• Sequence your synthesizer and play it by hand simultaneously with Sequence Interrupt
• Pairs well with the 0-Coast, Tape and Microsound Music Machine, or anything having CV Inputs

Specifications
Dimensions: 5.5 x 9 x.75 inches
Weight: 1.7 lbs.
Power Requirement: +15VDC on 2.1mm Tip Positive Connector
Includes Power Adapter, Patch Cables

Manufacturer product page here.
Product manual here.

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Features

• Two mono/stereo input channels, ChA & ChB
• Independent level controls for ChA & ChB
• Two stereo outputs containing A/B mix
• Independent unity gain L/R Line Level outputs
• TRS Headphone and Line Level output with level control (same line drive circuit used in the CV Bus Case)
• Adjust Modular Level signals down to Line Level with soft Limiting to protect your ears and line level gear

Specifications
Width: 6hp
Depth: 24mm
Power: 40mA@ +/-12V

Manufacturer product page here.
Product manual here.

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Includes

• Voltage Controlled DSP (Digital Signal Processing)
• Voltage Controlled Stereo Repeats and Halos: Mimeophon
• Voltage Controlled Stereo Granularization: Morphagene
• Complex Random Voltage Generator: Wogglebug
• Dual Analog Control Voltage generator: MATHS
• Signal Distribution and Fan Out: MULT
• Voltage Controlled Multi-Mode Multi-Peak Stereo Filtering: QPAS
• Stereo Mixing and Final Outputs: XOH
• 3U Skiff w/ power supply
• Blanking panels as appropriate (selection may vary)
• Ships with 15 Ad Infinitum patch cables

Specifications

• Size: 3U
• Total HP: 104
• Utilized HP: 94
• Expansion HP: 10
• Dimensions: 21.5 x 5.14 x 3.5 (inches)
• Weight: 6.6 lbs/3kg

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