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Make Noise Maths Patch Ideas

Make Noise Maths · grounded in the manual

Maths self-patching and envelope tricks

Maths is built to fold back into itself, so the best moves come from feeding its own outputs into its own CV inputs. Here are a handful that show what the analog computer really does.

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Channel 1 End Of Rise Output (EOR)

Channel 4 End Of Cycle Output (EOC)

Channel 1 Variable Output

Channel 4 Variable Output

Channel 4 Trigger Input

Channel 4 Cycle Input

Channel 1 Trigger Input

Channel 1 Both CV Input

Channel 4 Rise CV Input

Channel 1 Fall CV Input

Channel 1 End Of Rise Output (EOR) → Channel 4 Trigger Input · self · ADSR: CH1 EOR triggers CH4's attack/decay stage

Channel 1 End Of Rise Output (EOR) → Channel 4 Cycle Input · self · Trilling envelope drive

Channel 4 End Of Cycle Output (EOC) → Channel 1 Trigger Input · self · 281 mode cross-trigger

Channel 1 Variable Output → Channel 1 Both CV Input · self · Self-feedback to warp curve shape

Channel 1 Variable Output → Channel 4 Rise CV Input · self · Cross-feedback timing modulation

Channel 4 Variable Output → Channel 1 Fall CV Input · self · Cross-feedback timing modulation

Steps

Build a full voltage-controlled ADSR from CH1 and CH4Gate into CH1 Signal Input, patch CH1 EOR out to CH4 Trigger Input, take your envelope from the SUM or OR Bus Output. CH1/CH4 Rise = attack, CH4 Fall = decay, CH1 attenuverter = sustain (keep it below CH4's), CH1 Fall = release.
Run 281 Mode for a quadrature complex LFOEngage both Cycle buttons, patch CH1 EOR to CH4 Cycle Input and CH4 EOC to CH1 Trigger Input. If they don't start, tap CH1 Cycle. Take CH1 and CH4 Variable Outputs to two destinations for 90-degree-shifted modulation.
Self-modulate curve with feedback into a CV inputWith a channel cycling, take its Variable Output back into its own Both CV Input (or Rise/Fall CV In) to warp the function shape in ways the Vari-Response knob can't reach on its own.

Ideas to try

Trilling envelope — Cycle CH1 with Rise/Fall at 12:00 Linear, patch CH1 EOR to CH4 Cycle Input, set CH4 Rise 1:00 / Fall 11:00 Exponential, take output from OR. You get an envelope with a trill baked into the fall. Swap to EOC into CH1 Cycle for the trill on the rise instead.

Pseudo-VCA with dirty clipping — Audio into CH1 with Rise/Fall full CCW (or cycle CH1 at audio rate), output from SUM. Crank CH2 full CW for a 10V offset so the audio slams into asymmetrical clipping, then modulate CH1's level with an envelope on the Signal Input. Grungy amplitude control with built-in waveshaping. The INV SUM output gives a different flavor of the same clip.

Self-patched slow-verdrive LFO — Cycle a channel, then feed its own Variable Output back into its Both CV Input. Negative voltage stretches the whole function toward that 25-minute territory, positive squeezes it faster. Tiny attenuverter moves make it breathe and drift on its own.

Rise/Fall cross-feedback between channels — Cycle CH1 and CH4, then patch CH1 Variable Output into CH4's Rise CV Input and CH4 Variable Output into CH1's Fall CV Input. The two functions warp each other's timing continuously, and you get evolving, never-quite-repeating modulation from just the one module.

Watch out

When you use the SUM or OR Bus outputs, set any unused CH2/CH3 to 12:00 or drop a dummy cable in their Signal Input, otherwise their DC offset bleeds into your mix.

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