Make Noise Polimaths: Generate All the Functions!
Is this the best module at Superbooth25?
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The successor to Maths, Polimaths is an eight-channel function generator and part of Make Noise’s New Universal Synthesizer System.
Make Noise Polimaths
Quick, name the most popular Eurorack module ever released. If you said Make Noise’s Maths, you’re probably not wrong. I don’t have sales data at hand but it certainly seems like the 2009 module is in everyone’s rig – and with good reason. It’s flexible, endlessly useful and creatively inspiring.
Make Noise looks like it’s going to capture lightning in a bottle again with Polimaths, the successor to Maths and what may be the next must-have module – and maybe even best in show at Superbooth25.
Make Noise Polimaths: Eight Channel Function Generator
Polimaths is not meant to replace the original Maths but to complement it. It starts with the idea of the rise and fall function generator, and where the original had two, the new module has eight. If that number sounds familiar, it’s because it’s also the count in Multimod, the first module in Make Noise’s New Universal Synthesizer System (the other is Jumbler). The ethos of NUSS is to create multiple signals based on single gestures or signals, and that’s what Polimaths does.
As with the original Maths, you can turn your rise and fall envelope into an oscillator, now with saw, triangle and ramp waves in the dedicated oscillation section. It’s a gorgeous feature on its own. Every trigger gets sent out into all eight channels simultaneously and varied by the activate, span, channel index and spread concepts borrowed from the Multimod. There are also cycling and round modes to send the signal out to each channel individually in succession, like a sequence.
Make Noise Polimaths: Poly-Polimath
As you can see in the image accompanying this story, there are two Polimaths set up in Make Noise’s demo rig. That’s because you can chain them together using the channel index output and turn it into a 16-channel function generator.
In the Sonicstate video, Make Noise hints that Polimaths and the other NUSS modules – both available and forthcoming – are part of a new approach to polyphony. Explaining how he uses it, Walker states, “I like to use it with multiple oscillators to drive polysynth patches and stuff like that.” Will we be seeing poly-oriented oscillators and filters and other components coming soon for Make Noise? Very exciting.
Make Noise Polimaths: Price and Availability
Make Noise is shooting for an end of summer release. The price is yet to be decided.
Make Noise products are available at Thomann*.
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