MultiWAVE the Monosynth | Make Noise

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"The 0-Coast 10 year celebration is coming up Saturday September 12! RSVP here:

https://dice.fm/event/k65qyq-aplr-and...

Sign up for the 0-Coast workshop here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...

Parallel mode with Span setting 1 Activates all eight channels on each gate - just like "Unison" mode on a classic poly.

Also, enjoy a new visual score by Norman Freund, realized sonically by Del!

/ norman-freund
/ user-780024068

Here is Del's full description of the realization:"

"When I first encountered Norman Freund's score, I noticed the shapes were sketched quite roughly. In order to implement the score in a structured way, I made the decision to 'quantize' the original drawing to a grid. I hope I have suceeded in maintaining Norman's intent for the piece.

I decided on a grid of 64 'bars' at 120 bpm (each bar 2 seconds) Total time = 128 secs - 2:08

I identified common types of graphic entities in the score which would act in a similar sonic way and decided that there would be no implication of pitch in the score, just timing.

Colors were assigned to each type of graphic for visual and compositional reference:
Red - vertical line with spiral top
Light Blue - vertical line
Pink - horizontal line
Dark Blue - horizontal line with circle incorporating clockwise arrow indicator
Orange - rounded rectangle
Green - divergent lines (crescendo mark) and convergent lines (decrescendo mark)

Each entity in the score was recorded from a modular setup and arranged in the DAW (Reaper).
The sound palette came from the various reels of the project iterations.

Below are descriptions of two different ways in which sounds were mapped to graphics:
1. The Green divergent/convergent lines are the most persistent entities in this score. They are treated algorithmically. Each green entity has a different splice from "12 string iteration 0 reel". The methodology was to speed up each splice in Morphagene forwards from 0 to 100% (Green light) precisely over the time specified in the quantized score by the divergent lines and then back to 0 in the same way as specified by the convergent lines. For this I researched and discovered the Rossum Control Forge and used this to apply the precise voltage over time. An interesting technique learned and likely not one I would have considered otherwise.
2. The Red shape is a composed (ie non-algorithmic) collage of the individual sounds from iteration 3.

Other modules used were QPAS, Wogglebug and Mordax Data."

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Imaginary 0-Coast Patches | Make Noise

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"The 0-Coast 10 year celebration is coming up! RSVP here:

https://dice.fm/event/k65qyq-aplr-and...

Celebrating 0-Coast with some more imaginary patches from your comments, plus a great new GTE/Jumbler patch by Peter!"

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The MAGIC MultiWAVE Accompaniment Patch! | Make Noise

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"A fun approach to playing a monosynth alongside a MultiWAVE!

Plus the beginning of a discussion on relationality in music."

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0-Coast Birthday Party Announcement | Make Noise

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"0-Coast is ten years old this year, and we are celebrating!

Free event at Ayurprana Listening Room in Asheville NC on Saturday, September 12!

This video also includes:

A Plexiphon shipping update (unfortunately it is still delayed)
0-Coast patches based on commenter patch names, realized by Peter
A MultiWAVE/Strega patch to listen to"


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OUTSIDE THE KNOBS | Make Noise

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"Exploring a few of the 'hidden' behaviors accessible only by control voltage in New Universal Synthesizer System modules.

Plus a visual score by Sean Mahan, realized by Bobby A!"

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

Cross Mod Explorations with MultiWAVE | Make Noise

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"Trying out some different ways to use the new cross mod MultiMod Shape on MultiWAVE!

Try it out yourself by installing the new firmware here: https://www.makenoise-manuals.com/fir...

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

Three New N.U.S.S. Firmwares! | Make Noise

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"Announcing firmware updates for all three New Universal Synthesizer System modules: MultiWAVE, PoliMATHS, and MultiMod!

Update here: https://www.makenoise-manuals.com/fir...

More info in the modules' manuals at http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

Update:

"The new firmware features include:

1. New Cross Mod option on MultiWAVE for internal audio rate modulation

2. Custom scale quantizer option on MultiWAVE

3. Use PoliMATHS to generate offsets and easily use a connected QXG pair as a mixer, among other tricks

4. Extended Oscillations range on PoliMATHS

5. MultiMod Channel Index updated to work more smoothly when processing audio

See below for a full list!

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0-Coast ACID | Make Noise

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"An acid patch from Pete, plus a visual score by Cinematic, performed by Bruce Magill!"

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Alpha Syntauri at Make Noise

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"Named for the closest solar system to our own sun, the Alpha Syntauri was a digital synthesizer that ran on an Apple II computer and also had some proto-DAW-like or at least workstation-like capabilities. It was probably created as a lower cost alternative to the likes of the Fairlight or Synclavier systems that would have been accessible only to institutions and to the most wealthy musicians. While not everybody had a personal computer in 1980, that was at least something that many people could save up to own if they wanted to.

Like many older electronic music curiosities, this Alpha Syntauri system hung around the shop here at Make Noise for a while and then made its way on to its next home. But this one was unusual enough that we thought it might be fun to briefly feature it in a video.

The Reel used in the patch walkthru can be downloaded here— happy patching! https://freesound.org/people/makenois...

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

0-Coast Forever | Make Noise

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"2026 marks ten YEARS of the 0-Coast! Share the names of your favorite patches, real or imaginary, in the comments.

Also, a score by Vurt, realized by Cinematic!

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DUB PLEX | Make Noise

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"A subterranean Plexiphon patch.

Plus a visual score by Bruce Magill, realized sonically by Norman Freund!

More info about Norman's performance below:

SoundCloud: / landscape-graphic-score
BandCamp: https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/tra...

Description:
Late 2025 Walker Farrell from MakeNoise started an international music challenge for musicians to participate in, submit your own Graphic Score, then at the draw of a hat, you would be assigned someone else's score to interpret and create music from. I am always interested in music challenges and the more off-beat the better.

Late December 2025 names were drawn at random, Walker constructed a collection of MakeNoise modular synthesis cards to generate random numbers to set who gets what score. I was allocated a topographical map from Bruce Magill that contained some text notes and penciled in graphics. Bruce had a musical concept in mind for this score but did say "Notes for this graphic score are only a suggestion. You can disregard them and interpret this score in any way you like, if you wish. ... Don't overthink." So I did have free reign to interpret the score as I wished, so I could let my imagination run wild. In my younger years I did a lot of wilderness hiking so was and still am, quite familiar with topographic maps, so for me this was the perfect score, something I could relate to and understood. As a side note, there is no right answer for interpreting a graphic score, so understanding is not an essential ingredient, however a vivid imagination is. It is a bit like laying on the grass and looking up at the clouds -- what do you see beyond back scattered light from suspended vapours in the sky.

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Persuasive Poliphonic Patchin' | Make Noise

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"Let's try something out with Channel Index, and René's voltage addressed location option FUN.CV.LOC!"

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Woven Sound with Plexiphon | Make Noise

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"Feeding sound in.... Getting sound out."

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Texturizing the Space with Plexiphon | Make Noise

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"Plexiphon can add texture to many different types of sound! We explore a couple of them here, plus check out a fun 0-CTRL patch tip from Peter, and another visual score performance, this time from CrittendenIV performing a score by Lukasz Jon Orlowski!

Long version here: • Lukasz Jon Orlowski Visual Score performed... [below]

Check out the new issue of the Make Noise Zine as well!
https://www.makenoisemusic.com/sum-ou...

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

Lukasz Jon Orlowski Visual Score performed by CrittendenIV (Long Version)

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Back From Berlin | Make Noise

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"We have returned from Superbooth! Big thanks to everyone who came around and said hello!

Check out True Cuckoo's "Modular Walkerthru" here: • How to Modular with Walker from Make Noise... [posted here]

Also, a visual score by TooMere, performed by Łukasz Jan Orłowski!
/ too_mere"

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

Special Announcement from Make Noise!

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"Make Noise is proud to announce Plexiphon!

The Make Noise Soundhack Plexiphon is a stereo, modeless spatial texturizer which allows for continuously morphing between reverberations and multi-tap echoes, the widest range of possible results being neither reverb nor echo, and all results highlighting and amplifying character previously hidden in the source material being processed.

The Plexus control simultaneously modulates the number of feedback paths in the algorithm, and their entanglement together. The Size of the paths determines the temporal relation between them, operating like a “delay time,” or a “room size,” at either extreme of Plexus.

Diffuse and Color offer softening/sharpening/darkening/brightening effects over time.

Couple and Skew are stereo operations: Couple determines to what degree the left and right sides are isolated or intermingled (from “dual mono” to fully interlaced stereo), while Skew offers simultaneous inverse or tandem control of the left and right paths on the Plexus, Size, and Color parameters.

The Send gate input (normalled high, or patchable) determines whether and when the input signal will be fed into the Plexus.

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Breakin' Out | Make Noise

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"Taking some baby steps outside of the basic 'getting started' or 'Hello World' N.U.S.S. patch.

Also, a visual score by HisWiredMoves, performed by TooMere!
/ too_mere
/ hiswiredmoves

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

Office Hours Wednesday April 22 2026 | Make Noise

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Jumblin' a GTE | Make Noise

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"Running René, through, GTE through Jumbler...

Also, the premiere of a visual score by Tod Antilla, performed by HisWiredMoves!"

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

Space Tunin' with MultiWAVE | Make Noise

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"Checking out some unusual EDO tunings on MultiWAVE... with a little patch help from GTE!!"

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