Tough times and tight spaces call for deep algorithmic generative triggers. So now is a great time for Noise Engineering to reimagine their trigger module. Tap a tempo, patch a cord, and instantly spin up percussive patterns you can freely modulate — the best of what the company gave us before, but now with live performance transformations and more possibilities. It’s Multi Repetitor. It’s Multi Repetitor. Sorry.
Noise Engineering has been here before, with the Numeric and Zularic Repetitor trigger generators. Now you get three banks in just one module: Zularic, Numeric, and Euclidean — because, like carcinisation in evolution is to crabs, eventually all things will adapt Euclidean generators. (If I can get a Euclidean coffeemaker, I will never need another technology.)
And just like those hit modules before, you have four trigger outs — the difference now is, you get dedicated performance faders so you can transform the patterns live.
I also like that they imagined this to be plug-and-play, so you can get going and tweak by ear without advance prep — perfect for live jams. Then later, you can get as deep as you like. Let’s check those features:
- Clock and reset inputs, plus a new internal tap-tempo clock for standalone sequencing
- New four accent gate outputs
- — so with the four trigger outs, trigger up to four voices
- Prime fader sets the base rhythm
- Performance faders modify the rhythm via three algorithms (Zularic, Numeric, Euclidean)
- Full CV control over faders and banks
- And it’s a crab. Sorry, not yet; that evolution hasn’t happened yet. Maybe you’ll turn into a crab while using it.
It may not be immediately apparent just how much rhythmic power is in there. This is all the algorithmic power of a Euclidean sequencer plus the push-button simplicity of a classic early Roland drum machine (ahem) — yes, there’s rhumba in the banks — plus a bunch of new patterns. It’s really three modules in one, with all the advantages of presets and all the advantages of transmorgrifying rhythms with your fingers or CV live.
The New World patterns from Zularic alone open up some ideas. And now there’s enough in there that you don’t have to worry about any audible preset artifacts. This one’s all you.
I’m really excited to get my hands on this, so apologies for being this enthusiastic in a preview rather than a review. But this is the kind of hands-on inspiration that people imagine from modulars.
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Noise Engineering Multi Repetitor
For instance, our friends and NE’s neighbors over at Perfect Circuit (who are also at Buchla & Friends this week) carry Noise Engineering, though I don’t see it in their catalog just yet:
Noise Engineering at Perfect Circuit
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Fine, fine, we can also clear up this evolutionary theory I keep talking about. (Look, I do also really like crabs. And evolution is cool, even if the memes get this a little wrong.)