Noise Plethora - Befaco
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DocumentDocumentNOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL NOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL FUNCTION INDEX Page 3 POWER AND INTRODUCTION Page 4 CONTROLS Page 5 MISCELLANEA Page 6 PROGRAMS NOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL POWER & INTRO POWERING THE THANKS FOR PURCHASING A MODULE FROM BEFACO! MODULE BEFORE YOU PLUG THIS MODULE IN... 1. Disconnect your cabinet from the mains. 2. Triple check the power cord polarity. The coloured line on the cable (pin number one) is the -12V rail. 3. If you plug the module backwards you might burn it out and unfortunately this is not covered by the warranty. 4. If you have any questions about this product feel free to contact us support@befaco.org INTRODUCTION WHAT IS NOISE PLETHORA? Noise Plethora is an Eurorack Noise Workstation in 14HP. The module consists in three digital sounds generators equipped with an Analog Multimode Filter to sculpt the sound and generate any kind of textures and noises. MODULE STRUCTURE G E N E R AT O R S GENERATOR A Digital Noise algorithms Analog multimode filter GENERATOR B Digital Noise algorithms Analog multimode filter GENERATOR C White Noise and Granular "Gritty Noise" Analog multimode filter .3 NOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL CONTROLS 1. Manual Program/Bank Selector Programs are organized in banks of 10 programs each (0...9) Turn it to select the programs. Toggle between Generator A and B by pushing it quickly. Hold it for 1 second to access Bank selection (Bank LED will blink). Select the bank same way you select a program. To come back to Program selection just hold it for 1 second again. After a couple of seconds of inactivity on this control, the selection is saved to the internal non-volatile memory. 2/3. Program/Bank Display Shows the current Program or Bank. The dot at the bottom right corner of the display shows which Generator is selected. 4/5. Program Select CV Ins Select between programs on the selected Bank. 6. Bank LED Indicator It lits during Bank selection. 7/8/11/12. "X" Controls (Generator A and B). The voltage applied to "X" CV Input is summed to the value present at "X" manual control. CV Input Range: 10Vp-p. Higher voltages will be ignored. 9/10/13/14. "Y" Controls (Generator A and B) The voltage applied to "Y" CV Input is summed to the value present at "Y" manual control. CV Input Range: 10Vp-p. Higher voltages will be ignored. 15/16/17. Filter Mode Selectors Switch between Low-Pass, Band-Pass and High-Pass mode. 18/19/20. Filter Cutoff Frequency Control. 21/22/23. Filter Cutoff CV Inputs. The voltage applied to those Inputs is summed to the value present at the Cutoff manual control. Input Range: 10Vp-p 24/25/26. Filter Cutoff CV Attenuators. Attenuators for Cutoff CV Inputs. 27/28/29. Filters Resonance Control. NOISE PLETHORA + + + + + 7 8 27 X A 18 RES 9 4 PROG A 5 PROG B 10 YA 6 BANK 2 P=A/B] CUTOFF HP BP15 21 LP [TA 1 3 HP PROGRAM [HOLD=BANK] BP16 LP 22 + 24 CV 30 31 OUTs + 11 12 25 X B 19 CV 13 14 28 CUTOFF Y B RES HP 34 BP17 29 LP 20 26 RES 37 CUTOFF SOURCE + 35 33 36 32 23 GRIT QTY GRITTY FILTERED WHITE CUT OFF CV 30/31. Main Outputs for Generators A and B 32. White Noise Output. 33. Gritty Noise Output. 34/35. Gritty Noise "Grit" Quantity. The voltage applied to "Grit Qty" CV Input is summed to the value present at "Grit Qty" manual control. CV Input Range: 10Vp-p 36. Filtered Noise Output. 37. Filtered Noise Source Selector. Selects between Gritty or White Noise to be filtered. .4 NOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL MISCELLANEA SPECS AND CREDITS MISCELLANEA Size: 14HP Deeth: 30 mm +12v: 65 mA -12v: 8mA This module is the result of loads of hours of work, love, and care. It would have been impossible to finish without the help of beta testers, loving friends, fearless programmers, and the whole Befaco conclave of opinionologist. Hardware design, documentation, user interface, and sound design by Befaco team. Beta testing by Jose Cabrera, Sam Gerber, Miguel Eedl, and the Befaco team. Firmware coding by Jeremy Bernstain, Julia Mugica, Ivan Paz, and Befaquers. BE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST FIRMWARE INSTALLED The firmware version will display shortly at startup. PROG A [TA Y A BANK P=A/B] Example of a display showing 1.1 version If your Noise plethora is not updated please download the firmware PROGRAM from "https://Befaco.org/noise-plethora" and follow the install PROG B [HOLD=BANK] instructions .5 NOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL PROGRAMS BANK: A - TEXTURES CV1 CV2 0 RadioOhNo Four Square wave Oscillators cross Moded in couples and OSC 1 Frequency OSC 2 Frequency + PWM added together. 1 Rwalk_SineFMFlange Modulation Frequency Flanger 2 xModRingSqr OSC 1 Frequency OSC 2 Frequency Four random walkers in a box of size L mapped to the frequencies of Pulse oscillators, modulated by sine FM synth and filtered by a flange effect. Cross FM Between Two square wave Oscillators. The out is the ring modulation of the two. 3 xModRingSine OSC 1 Frequency OSC 2 Frequency Cross FM Between Two sine wave Oscillators. The out is the ring modulation of the two. 4 CrossModRing Freq (different ratios each) FM Index 4 waves FMing each other in a daisy chain and the last one FMing the first one. All outs are multiplied together. 5 Resonoise Both waves Freqency Folding amount 6 GrainGlitch Square Wave frequency FM Index and grain size 7 GrainGlitchIII Square Wave frequency FM Index and grain size Square wave FM-ing a sine wave. The result is passed through a wave folder and a BPF. The filter cutoff is modulated by white noise. Square Wave sent through a granular cell. The out of this cell is feedback to the Oscillator as FM. The out is a combination of the oscillator and the granular cell using XOR logic gate. Square Wave sent through a granular cell. The out of this cell is feedback to the Oscillator as FM. The out is taken from the granular cell. 8 GrainGlitchIII Square Wave frequency FM Index and grain size Sawtooth Wave sent through a granular cell. The out of this cell is feedback to the Oscillator as FM. The out is taken from the granular cell. 9 Basurilla LFOs Frequency LFOs Pulsewidth 3 Withe Noise generators gated by 3 independent Pulse LFOs .6 NOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL PROGRAMS BANK: B - HH CLUSTERS CV1 CV2 0 ClusterSaw Frequency Spread 16 Sawtooth Oscillators with adjustable linear frequency relation 1 PwCluster Frequency Pulsewidth 6 Detuned pulse waveforms with adjustable pulse width 2 CrCluster2? Frequency FM Index 6 detuned Sine Waves with low-frequency FM 3 SineFMcluster Frequency FM Index 6 detuned sine waves, frequency modulated by 6 independent sine modulators. 4 TriFMcluster Frequency FM Index 6 detuned triangle waves with frequency modulated by 6 independent sine modulators. 5 Primecluster Frequency FM Index 16 sawtooth waves detuned using prime numbers, with a common Sine Frequency Modulator. 6 PrimecCnoise Frequency FM Index 16 Triangle Waves detuned using prime numbers, frequency modulated by white noise. 7 FibonacciCluster Frequency Spread Factor 16 sawtooth detuned using Fibonacci series, and each frequency is multiplied by a "spread" Factor. 8 PartialCluster Frequency Spread Factor 16 sawtooth, detuned by multiplying each of the frequencies by a "spread" Factor. 9 PhasingCluster Frequency Spread Factor 16 Square Waves detuned by multiplying each of the frequencies by a "spread" Factor, with an LFO detuning all of them slightly. .7 NOISE PLETHORA USER MANUAL PROGRAMS BANK: C - HARSH & WILD CV1 CV2 0 BasuraTotal "Bent" LFSR using FM on an oscillator with reverb. LFSR Speed Reverb Amount 1 Atari Two Square waves with PWM/FM cross Modulation. Wave 1 Freq Wave 2 freq + FM Index The first one do PWM to the second, and the second do FM to the first. 2 WakingFilomena L box lenght FM Index 16 random walkers mapped to the frequencies of Pulse oscillators in an L-size box. 3 P_S_H Noise trough Sample & Hold + Dirty Reverb. S&H Rate Reverb Amount 4 ArrayOnTheRocks Carrier Frequency Modulator Frequency FM patch where modulator is a sine wave and the carrier a wavetable with some values of the table been randomized on the fly. 5 ExistencelsPain Sample & Hold Rate BPF CutOff Mod-Index Sample & Hold Noise through four bandpass filters whose frequency is controlled by four triangle oscillators. 6 WhoKnows Pulse Wave trough four band pass filters whose frequency Pulse Frequency BPF CutOff Mod-Index is controlled by four triangle oscillators. 7 SatanWorkout Frequency + FM index Sample Rate White Noise FM-ing a sine wave. The result is downsampled and distorted. 8 Rwalk_BitCrushPW Nine random walkers in a box of size L mapped to nine waveforms frequencies, and a bit crusher filter mapped to L box length Reverb Roomsize their pulse-width. The result Is passed through reverb. 9 Rwalk_LFree Four Pulse Width Modulated Pulse waveforms with reverb. L box length Reverb Roomsize .8