Make Noise Maths is a Control Voltage Generator and Processor inspired by the classic designs of Don Buchla in his Model 257 and Model 281 function generators. Buchla's envelope designs allowed them to easily switch between cycling and triggered envelopes, providing LFOs as well, and at high enough speeds, Oscillators. This design was then adapted for the Serge Dual Universal Slope Generator, which is a fitting name as it can basically create any kind of rising and falling voltage. Maths continues this great tradition of versatile and function-packed modules.

Maths can be used for VC Envelope Generators, VC LFOs, VC Slew Generators, a unique type of filter/VCA, a polarizer/attenuator, a VC clock divider, and a VCO. It can easily translate digital information (clocks and triggers) into analog information (sloped waveforms and continuous shifting voltages), and vice versa (with trigger "End" outputs for both function generators). The wave shapes can be changed from Logarithmic to Linear to Exponential with a control knob, which also affects their frequency range and timbre. Two cycle buttons easily convert the functions from triggered or gated envelopes to looping LFOs.

Two utility polarizers are also included to process CV and/or Audio. When nothing is patched into the Polarizer input, it outputs a static voltage based on the knob’s position. 12 o’clock corresponds to 0V, and the voltage increases or decreases depending on which way the knob is turned. When a signal is patched in, the polarizers act as attenuverters. This means they reduce bipolar signals until they invert, or reduce a unipolar signal until it crosses the X axis and becomes negative.

A synthesizer made exclusively of Make Noise Maths would technically be a fully functional synthesizer, complete with oscillators, envelopes, esoteric VCAs and filters, LFOs with audio mixing capabilities. The Maths is an essential synthesizer module for any style of synthesis.

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MAKE NOISE MATHS FEATURES

• Analog Computer Module Designed for Musical Control Voltage Manipulation and Generation
• Voltage Controlled Envelope or LFO as slow as 25 minutes and as fast as 1 kHz
• Apply Lag, Slew, or Portamento to control voltages
• Change the depth of modulation and modulate backwards
• Combine up to 4 control signals to create more complex modulations
• Musical events such as ramping up or down in tempo, on command
• Initiate musical events upon sensing motion in the system
• Musical note division and/or flam
• Perfect for modulating the DPO and just about anything else

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