ANDOM8 is an eight channel random voltage generator, with per–channel looping controls, in just 8HP. RANDOM8 is designed to bring any sized system to life, squeeze the most out of other modules, and help musicians perform and jam music in a way that hasn't been possible in such a small space before, whilst still remaining immediate to use. It is a sequencer, a complete system animator, and a sort of LFO. It is designed to make everything in the system dance a little bit, or a lot, and keep everything you do sounding alive, funky and interesting - or it can drive the whole show. It works like this: Feed a clock or gate into the top input. That triggers every channel below it also, unless you break the connection by inserting into another input lower down. There is an output attenuator for each channel, controlled with a small trimmer pot. Every time the trigger is sent, you get 8 random voltages at the outputs. By pressing a button, that channel now loops the last voltages just played, suddenly making randomness into something intentional. Push that button again, and the channel now 'evolves', and the voltage in the loop will change - but not immediately - changes will happen over time. If you like the new loop, hit the button again and lock it in. Now it doesn't change. You keep alternating between 'evolve' and 'loop' during a jam. If you ever want to go back to full randomness on a channel, just double tap. RANDOM8 has, adjustable per channel, pitch quantizer with 16 commonly used scales, 8 different random styles (5 different types of weighted random, one alternating random style, two wandering voltage styles), Input Clock Divider, Slew (turning channels into LFOs, goes from acid slide to minutes long for slowly shifting voltages), Offset (to raise and clip voltages to the 'ceiling'), Preset Memory, and you can change the amount of looped steps per channel from 1-32. These settings are contained in 8 menus which are all one layer deep. I have taken great care to keep it simple and consistent to understand and use despite having no screen. Hold a button for 1 second, let go, then turn dials to edit that menu setting for all 8 channels at once. Push any button to immediately exit the menus. That's it. It's nuts what it unlocks and I just wish I'd had it sooner as it makes improvisation and jamming a heck of a lot easier. I believe it is something literally anyone's system will be better to have in it, no matter how small or big that system is.
