Make Noise today announced Bruxa, a special release from the team in the United States of America.
The Bruxa music synthesizer module is an audio alchemical experiment. Spill your sound into time, and let it decay through the filters to hear the results. Bruxa is a collaboration between Make Noise and Alessandro Cortini.
Bruxa is a collaboration between Make Noise and Alessandro Cortini. Inspired by Cortini’s music and sonic experimentations, Bruxa embodies the seen and unseen, the sign and magic, the alchemy of sound. It is a new evolution of Tony and Alessandro’s original prototype circuits which eventually became the Strega’s Time/Filter Experiment. It is a multi-tap delay line with over a dozen unique feedback paths and multiple filters within those feedback paths aligned to allow for accumulation of noise, saturation and signal degradation.
The Bruxa is a multi-tap delay line, with over a dozen unique feedback paths and multiple filters within those feedback paths, aligned to allow for accumulation of noise, saturation and signal degradation.
While Strega is a complete synthesizer in a tabletop form factor, Bruxa is a Eurorack module designed to be used as one part of a Eurorack modular synthesizer. You will discover a number of differences in layout, signals, and sound. Living inside the Eurorack modular system, Bruxa encourages you to patch your own sound and modulation sources, yielding results surprisingly distinct from Strega.
The Bruxa experiment
The most well documented Bruxa experiment begins with the input. Point all controls to midnight, and send a sound of your choice into the input. Adjust the input level to taste. Hear how changes in your source sound affect the Time/Filter experiment. Low or quiet sounds vs. higher or louder pitches. Turn up Blend, and sweep the Time control through its entire range. At around 9:00, you should hear an avalanche of noise. Turn up the Absorb control and sweep the filter. Patch the CV outputs to the Filter or Absorb inputs or wherever you like.
Features:
- Echoverb signal processor which shares origins with Strega
- Well tuned to work nicely in a Eurorack modular system
- All analog dry signal path blended with digital/ analog hybrid signal processor
- Analog CV inputs with wide range capable of audio rate modulation
- Time control with massive, smoothly variable range
- Linear FM input with attenuator allows for fluttering of Time
- Absorb and Filter controls dramatically shape the echo tone and reflections
- New unique CV outputs for use in self-patching or mutual patching with other modules
- Pairs well with STO, MATHS, Prss Pnt, modDemix and more!