Today’s new module announcement from Make Noise has me making a second change to my modular rack already.
The Multimod is a mere 10HP wide, meaning it can replace the Xaoc Koszalin that I just haven’t been using much (and which has pretty decent software equivalents, aside from the FM capabilities… and I have so much FM stuff in my rack it’s really not needed).
As for what it does? A couple of things.
It’s an 8-channel LFO (including stepped or smooth random), where all the channels share a common shape and can be synchronized or offset at different phases and rates. A bit similar in concept to Just Friends or Tides 2018.
But it can also capture incoming signals, record them into a buffer, and then play that buffer back using those shapes (forward, backwards, ping-pong, steppy, randomly rearranged, etc.) Again, with different rates and phases per output, synchronized or not, and with a variable buffer size. And the buffer input can be frozen so it just holds what’s already been recorded. Those signals can be from another LFO, sequencer, envelope, gates, controllers…
…or even audio. Meaning that you can use it as a multitap delay, pitch shifter, and looper, albeit a slightly crude lo-fi-ish one.
This is the sort of “time travel” thing I thought was awesome about the Red Panda Tensor pedal back when I had one, but way cooler and more capable. I’m excited!