Please count me as a requestor for this as well. Noise Tools is such an elegant collection of essential tools that isn’t available anywhere else in a single 3u module, at least that I know of. The closest I can find are SSF/WMD Modbox (w/no slew and only triangle waves, not pulse) and the Doepfer A-184-1, with a ring mod en lieu of a clock.
I also understand that this would be a relatively boring module, compared to (e.g.) Quadrax or Planar2, so it might not be a sales blockbuster, and thus might not qualify for the necessary development priority/resources. But man, I really want one. It would be a killer nerve-center for this small system I’m putting together.
Very interesting, thanks for this. I was under the impression that the Noise Tools 1U was too wide to fit in a 3U space, but I wonder if I got confused and measured the Steppy 1U or something else.
I may have to cook up one of those faceplates myself. Similarly, I encourage Intellijel to offer 3U faceplates for this module, as it seems like an easy and affordable way to make it available to a broader audience.
I’d love to see a 3u noise tools! With a bit more space, one feature that could be cool to add is a Bernoulli gate in place of the random pulse function. Clock out would be normalled to a gate input for a Bernoulli gate, and an additional knob for probability, and then would continue through the normalled signal flow like normal. That way the probability, as well as max speed, of the random triggers could be adjusted.
Have you looked at the back of an Intellijel module as compared to, say, one by Doepfer? Components are super tiny on Intellijel stuff. A chip that picks out the loudest frequency wouldn’t be all that hard, when you compare it with some of the things other modules, like the quadrax, can do.
If that is a MI modular term (vs a generic Math/Eng term), good news in my opinion because a better name could be found. (Something that conveys it’s a set of out jacks rather than one.) As an intellijel product it should probably also feature a button to press through various distributions including Bernoulli. Starts to sound like a Plog alter-ego!
Exactly… That does not say “Bernoulli gate” anywhere and I just find that term improvable. It’s a small detail that comes from how I normally think of a gate as one jack. So a channel on Branches to me is actually a Bernoulli gate (out A) with its inverse along side (out B). Shorthand can be a good thing …as in the analogy of Rene. It is a good analogy. Maybe what I was thinking earlier would not improve anything
Could be, but I was probably just unclear. I thought I had measured out the Noise Tools 1U and concluded that it was too wide to fit in a 3U space, but it’s shy by about 4HP, so it should fit fine. Instead, I’m wondering if I got confused by a different module I measured, like Quadratt or Steppy 1U, which are both several HP wider.
I just drafted up a panel to get a Noise Tools 1U to fit in a 3U space. I still need to place the holes for the two switches, and I’m not sure the size and placement of some of the holes are as good as they can be, so I’ll wait for the arrival of my actual Noise Tools before putting some of the finishing touches on it.
In mocking this up, it became clear that this module’s horizontal design doesn’t result in the same clean flow and layout that are standard in Intellijel’s 3U modules, but I’ll be happy to have it in my rack anyway. Also, “Noise Tools” didn’t fit in the top row using the standard font and type size, so I labeled it “uNoise” just for fun.
To set it up as an actual panel, I’m using Front Panel Designer (the application for tooling up panels for creation by Front Panel Express). The drill holes and panel dimensions you see here are from FPD. For the graphic layout itself (i.e., the text, arrows and other black markings), it’s just Photoshop. I set up the panel via FPD and then dropped the layout image on top of it. It works pretty slick.
I’d love to have a reversed panel for MIDI 1U. I’m currently running the module flipped upside down - so the clock/run jacks are on the left side. Less cable clutter since typically a MIDI master clock is a semi-permanent connection. The old MIDI 1U was a much better arrangement, although a poor use of HP.
In my custom studio case, I came up with a tidy way partially hide these semi-permanent connections - I run the Clock and Run connection from MIDI 1U around the left side to the back of the console, where I have a 1U mult mounted, which distributes Clock and Run back to the front, all with Tendrils cables, to USTA, Tête, Pamela, Krait, and Magneto. Neat and Tidy. I always wished that master clock and run would have been designed into the 16-pin power spec Doepfer came up with (and Euro manufactures actually used it)… hindsight’s 20/20.
I feel the wish. My RH-side FSR 1u lives upside down.
With your colour coded jack-nuts system, and MIDI 1u being a semi-permanently patched type of module, could you run it blank (reversed panel)? (i don’t actually know if it is perfectly symmetrical, I don’t own one).
