Back on Makenoise design philosophy: In a discussion about Mimeophon, a couple of things clicked for me. Design wise - Makenoise makes pretty standard stuff, but they add a couple of knobs that make whatever it is very very different.
Examples,
- Mimeophon can be a simple echo / delay…or it can be nuts.
- Erbe verb can be a simple reverb, or it can be nuts.
- Morphagene can be a looper / sampler, or you can crank that morph knob all the way right and it can add weird tinkles to everything
Everything is “module can be a simple whatever or it can be nuts or maybe it tinkles.”
I’m coining a phrase here, “food truck design”. Here’s how you use it in a sentence, “Tom Erbe follows a food truck model for algo design - basic…but…with a twist that makes it wildly different.”
Definitely true for all the Erbe modules, but it still holds true for Rene (it’s a sequencer…but…carrrrtesian), STO (wave folder?)…DPO breaks the model a tiny bit because it follows the pattern for “complex oscillator” pretty closely. Maybe the strike adds something there? Modules that break the design tend to break it in the all weird direction - Telharmonic, Mysterion.
This feels pretty right. It’s also been our home decorating theory for a while - everything is pretty standard leaning towards minimalist but with one weird thing in the room.
