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Make Noise Brains Manual

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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    BRAINS Limited Warranty ----------------------------------------------------3 Installation --------------------------------------------------4 Jumpers and Cable Connections --------------------------------5 Panel Controls -----------------------------------------7 Overview ---------------------------------------------------------------8 Tips & Tricks --------------------------------------------------9 Patch Examples --------------------------------------------------10...
  • Page 3: Limited Warranty

    Make Noise to be the fault of the user are not covered by this warranty, and normal service rates will apply. During the warranty period, any defective products will be repaired or replaced, at the option of Make Noise, on a return-to-Make Noise basis with the customer paying the transit cost to Make Noise.
  • Page 4: Installation

    Eurorack style bus board, minding the polarity so that the RED stripe on the cable is oriented to the NEGATIVE 12 Volt line on both the module and the bus board. On the Make Noise 6U or 3U Busboard, the negative 12 Volt line is indicated by the white stripe.
  • Page 5: Jumpers And Cable Connections

    Jumper and Cable Connections: (Power connections for each module not shown for clarity.) Jumpers Single PRESSURE POINTS with no BRAINS attached: Note all the "Close 4 Master" locations are closed, as well as the Expand headers. Points 5-8 Points 1-4 Two PRESSURE POINTS, chained: Note that the "Close 4 Master"...
  • Page 6 BRAINS with two PRESSURE POINTS: Two is the maximum number of PRESSURE POINTS that can be attached to a single BRAINS. Note: the connections of "Points 1-4" and "Points 5-8" to EXPAND headers the single open location on the "Master" PRESSURE POINTS' "Close 4 Master" headers;...
  • Page 7: Panel Controls

    2. Reset Input: jumps to last touched stage on rising edge of clock, gate, pulse or trigger, of at least 1V. 3. Run Input: Gate or Voltage of at least 1V tells BRAINS to RUN, and thus a Gate or voltage below 1V stops BRAINS.
  • Page 8: Overview

    T-CLK is normaled high and controls whether PRESSURE POINTS stages can be selected by touch. If T-CLK is low, stages can only be selected via the BRAINS inputs, and all touch selection will be ignored (Pressure and T-GATE outputs are still active). Multing a narrow clock to the T-CLK input and has the e ect of "quantizing"...
  • Page 9: Tips & Tricks

    Touch Controlled Pattern Length: With sequence running, patch the Gate Output from Stage 8, to BRAINS Reset Input. Touch the plate of the stage that is to be the start of the sequence. The sequence now runs to stage 8 and returns to last touched stage, e ectively giving you touch control of sequence length.
  • Page 10: Patch Examples

    Buchla 250e Style Movement: Patch MATHS CH. 1 EOR to Clock Input, BRAINS. Set MATHS to Cycle, Rise panel control to Noon, Fall will set upper limit of clock rate. Sequence should be running. Patch the bottom most row of Tuned Voltages from PRESSURE POINTS, to MATHS CH. 1 Fall Control Input.
  • Page 11 BOTH Control Input. Sequence runs at a rate determined by the bottom row. The control signal generated by the sequence is interpolated according to the length of the stage, as set by the bottom most row of PP/BRAINS. Additionally, try combining this...