MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Noise Engineering Booth Module Overviews & Demo

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Modules featured include the Ataraxic Translatron, Basimiuls Iteritas, Variatic Sequent and Loquelic Iteritas. Details on each captured further below for the archives. Directly below is a direct audio in demo.

"The Ataraxic Translatron is a linear feedback shift register oscillator similar to those used in the first generation of home video game consoles such as the Atari VCS as well as many other classic arcade games.

Linear feedback shift registers are an ingenious way to produce a variety of sounds with an extremely small amount of hardware. The Atari VCS used only around 35 logic gates to produce all of its sounds. The complexity of tone for relatively minimal hardware made this synthesis technique common for sound in the first generation of video games where hardware costs were the primary development constraint. As video games entered popular culture these sounds became iconic but have seldom made it out of the video game world except when sampled from the games themselves or as their own genre of music “chiptunes”. The Ataraxic Translatron gives you classic arcade sounds in Eurorack format to be used just like any other VCO.

13 patches vary from a simple square wave to white noise with your favorite arcade sounds in between. All tones are available in 6 octaves range. A standard 1 volt per octave pitch control and CV control of the current patch are squeezed into a compact 4HP. An external clock mode that allows an external clock to drive the shift register allows for additional tone generation and modulation.

Please note that Noise Engineering has no affiliation with Atari and the use of the word Atari is as an example of a classic product that uses a similar sound generation algorithm."

"The Basimiuls Iteritas is a digital drum synthesizer with its roots in the analog world. At its heart it is a simple eight oscillator additive synthesizer with adjustable waveform, harmonic spread and decay. Adjustable attack including a noise oscillator is also included. These are summed and fed into an infinifold section for more crunch and variety."

"The Variatic Sequent is a compact four note sequencer that controls the placement in time of four gates by the
position of a knob."

"The Loquelic Iteritas is an 8hp comb oscillator producing a wide variety of woody, throaty tones as well as basic waveforms. It uses variable sample rate technology to turn digital aliasing into harmonic distortion. It also features a built in infinifold wave folder which gives another dimension of voltage controlled sound."