Noise Engineering Vox Digitalis Manual

Intuitive pitch cv sequencer in 4hp

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Vox Digitalis

Intuitive pitch CV sequencer in 4hp

Overview

Type Pitch sequencer

Size 4HP Eurorack

Depth .8 Inches

Power 2x5 Eurorack

+12 mA 50 mA

-12 mA 5 mA

Small, easy-to-program sequencers are a bit of a rarity. Vox Digitalis is our answer to this issue. With

intuitive displays and simple controls, VD is perfect for all your pitch CV needs. Set your sequence

length, dial in each note, randomize, save and load 16 sequences -- VD does all the stuﬀ the big

sequencers do, just in 4hp.

Etymology

Vox -- from Latin: "voice"

Digitalis -- from Latin "belonging to a ﬁnger"; also a plant that will kill you.

"Vocal mime of death"

Design Notes

Vox Digitalis was really unique in design history. We sat down as a team to discuss the module; we

knew we wanted to make a minimalist pitch sequencer but each of us had been privately pondering.

Stephen had one idea, but somehow, Markus and Kris both had come to the conclusion that the form

factor of another module in the pipeline (Fractio Solum) made sense. It couldn't be shared hardware,

but the core layout was similar. It took some Stephen-convincing, and some tweaking of each of those

initial conceptions, but we were all quickly convinced that we could do something compelling in 4hp.

From there, we had to be incredibly vigilant about feature creep. This led to some pretty heated

discussions around NE HQ (we're not generally fans of key combos. Should we make it bigger?

Should we add key combos? Should we make it just do less?). In the end, we thought it would be silly

to leave oﬀ useful features we could easily implement, but chose to assign only advanced functions to

combos -- things that you could use VD forever without ever really needing, but if you wanted them,

they'd be there.

Page 1 “Vocal mime of death” Design Notes Vox Digitalis was really unique in design history. We sat down as a team to discuss the module; we knew we wanted to make a minimalist pitch sequencer but each of us had been privately pondering.
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Page 3: Advanced Features
Reset input. Responds to a rising edge of around 3v. Beat: Clock input. Responds to a rising edge of around 3v. Out: CV output. Vox Digitalis has a 4-octave range (0-4v). Advanced features (now you’re jammin’) Edit pattern length: Press Adv+encoder. Turn the encoder to the desired number of steps (displayed on top screen), then press the encoder to set the sequence length.
Page 4 Load-Behavior Conﬁguration In performance situations, being able to load a sequence reliably and predictably is important. Since preferred load behavior depends on the performer, we Digitalis implemented 3 diﬀerent pattern-loading modes. To set the load behavior, power on VD with the corresponding button pressed and hold until VD ﬁnishes its boot sequence.