I happen to be a owner of the Nord
Micromodular (the first G1 series). It is an extremely powerful modular
synthesiser in the size of a small book. Recently I have used it mainly
with my Akai EWI wind controller. Now I got an idea if I could
easily simulate different pseudo-random noise setups with Nord Modular
(see my first posting here). Micromodular has basic logic-modules but it
is too complicated to build shift registers from these primitive
building blocks. You can build shift registers by connecting serially
D-Flip Flops. A D-flip flop merely holds the value of its input when
the clock goes high. This is exactly what an S/H-module also does. You
connect serially as many S/H-modules as you need LFSR-stages and clock
them from a same master clock. In Micromodulars digital world we must
assure that the serially connected S/H-modules behave as a real
sequential storage element. This can be done with master-slave flip flop
design where there is a phase shift between clocks. Clock high is when
the master loads data and clock low when the slave transfers data to
the next stage. So you need two S/H-modules to one shift register stage.
This idea comes from Rob Hordijk and is explained in James J. Clarks
Nord Modular book (www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/nordmodularbook.pdf).
With this
technique it is possible to build as long or as short LFSR-generators
you want. In the picture you can see 17-stage pseudo-random noise
generator patch. When it is clocked at 25kHz and the output comes from
the shift registers last stage it generates fairly good white noise. It
seems that you can go down to 6-stages and it generates still some kind
of white noise. With this short LFSR you can hear the repeating of the
generator. If you go down from 6-stages it generates pitches and you can
use it as a VCO (or is it more like a DCO?). This looks and sounds
promising. I think I must build a physical shift register module where
you can patch your LFSR and explore more these short and repeating
pseudo random sequences. There is sure a lot of to be discovered. When I
have energy and time I must upload here some sound-examples of these
sequences.
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