Make Noise Spectraphon

MUSICAL FEATURES

Make Noise SpectraphonA dual spectral oscillator that creates new sounds from what already exists through real-time spectral analysis and resynthesis.

Spectraphon, coded by soundhack's Tom Erbe, is inspired by electronic instruments such as the Buchla 296 and Touché, including spectral processors, additive synthesis, vocoders, and resonators. It adopts a physical format close to the classical analog dual complex oscillator that follows the lineage of

• Dual digital VCO, 8 simultaneous outputs, 2 audio inputs, 2 gate inputs, 10 CV inputs
• Powered by Make Noise's new digital hardware platform
• Coded by Tom Erbe of soundhack
• Create spectral oscillations based on continuous analysis of input audioSpectral Amplitude Modulation (SAM)
• Create spectral oscillations based on stored sets of spectra called 'Arrays' created in SAM modeSpectral Array Oscillation (SAO) 
• Two VCOs operate independently in SAO or SAM and can be freely combined
• High resolution internal FM bus with easy access to harmonic ratios via tuning beacon
• Sub-oscillator/CV output allows access to unique sub-oscillator shapes, envelope followers, and clockable modulation sources
• Sine and Sub can operate independent of FM bus modulation
• Side B Follow and Sync functions for easy dual-oscillator patching, tuned FM, hard-sync sweeps, and more

Spectraphon is the first module that Make Noise has produced on the new digital hardware platform.Engineered by Jeff Snyder and Tony Rolando, this hardware offers more inputs and outputs, higher resolution and a lower noise floor than ever before in a digital module.This allowed Tom Erbe's DSP code to unleash like never before.

Spectraphonhas two nearly identical oscillators that oscillate in either spectral amplitude modulation (SAM) or spectral array oscillation (SAO) modes. Instead of constantly oscillating like an analog VCO, the SAM uses the spectral distribution of the input sound of the spectraphone to modulate the amplitude of the VCO's harmonics. In SAM, the Spectraphone can be sequenced and frequency modulated like a normal VCO. In SAM mode, for later use in SAO modeThe spectrum of the input sound can be saved as array data.

The Slide and Focus controls are mode dependent and in SAM set the fundamental to the input sound for Spectral AM.The result is a vocoder-like tonal modulation of the oscillator. In SAO these controls are used to modulate the calling array.

In either mode (SAM or SAO), the Partials control acts as an amplitude and timbre gate (VCA) for the odd and even harmonic outputs, the output of the FM bus, and the FM bus is the internal frequency from the other Spectraphon VCO. modulate. The two VCOs can interact in various ways with internal FM busses, follow and sync, and patching each other.