Make Noise Morphagene Module

A collaboration with Tom Erbe of Soundhack, the Make Noise Morphagene Eurorack Module works with Reels, Splices, and Genes to create new sounds by letting you capture and manipulate existing ones. It also lets you search BETWEEN notes to find and capture the microsounds you can’t hear with the naked ear. Since the world of sounds is so vast and subjective, Morphagene doesn’t come with preset sounds, but offers you a blank SD card so that you can load in your own samples.

Once you have your recorded audio loaded, you can put samples in a particular order or jumble them using Organize. Vari-Speed will manipulate not only the playback speed, but also the playback direction. Playback and record are separate functions, so you can manipulate a sound, record it into a new Splice, and then play it back and layer more sounds on top of it. Use Gene Size to granularize your sounds and create textures.

The Time Lag Accumulation function, inspired by Frippertronics, lets you process sound and create loops in real time.

More than a simple update of the Make Noise Phonogene, the Morphagene is named for its new Morph function, which introduces polyphony by layering and staggering genes. That said, if you’re already using the Phonogene, some of the basic workflow like Organize, Splice, and Gene Size will be familiar.