The new Eurorack module from Make Noise blurs the line between reverb and echo, with deep stereo control and voltage-controlled access to the whole thing.
Make Noise has announced the Plexiphon, a stereo spatial texturizer built in collaboration with developer Tom Erbe of Soundhack. Written entirely in new code and designed specifically for Make Noise’s latest digital hardware, it’s a module that’s harder to categorise the more you look at it – which, for a certain kind of patching obsessive, is exactly the point.
The core idea sits around the Plexus control, which morphs continuously between reverberation and multi-tap echo. At neither extreme does the result sound like a conventional reverb or a conventional delay – the space in between is where the module lives, and where it’s designed to pull out character from whatever source material you’re feeding it. Size governs the temporal relationship between feedback paths, functioning somewhere between delay time and room size, depending on where Plexus sits.
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Two dedicated controls take care of the stereo image. Couple determines how isolated or intermingled the left and right channels are, covering everything from dual mono to fully interlaced stereo. Skew offsets the left and right paths across Plexus, Size and Color simultaneously – giving the stereo image movement that goes well beyond simple panning. Diffuse and Color shape texture and timbre over time, softening, sharpening, darkening or brightening the signal as it moves through.
The Send gate input controls when the signal enters the Plexus – normalled high by default but fully patchable, which makes dub echo-style techniques easy to set up. A CV output from the onboard envelope follower ties Plexiphon back into the rest of the system, or loops it into its own controls. At 16hp with a power draw of 240mA at +12V and 5mA at -12V, it sits comfortably in a typical build without taking over the case.
Plexiphon ships in June, with pre-orders open at Eurorack retailers worldwide. It debuts publicly at Superbooth at the Make Noise booth (0298).
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