BRAINS
Limited WARRANTY: Make Noise warrants this product to be free of defects in materials or construction for a period of one year from the date of purchase (proof of purchase/invoice required). Malfunction resulting from wrong power supply voltages, backwards power cable connection, abuse of the product or any other causes determined by Make Noise to be the fault of the user are not covered by this warranty, and normal service rates will apply.
Installation: The Make Noise Brains is an electronic signal generator requiring 20mA of +12V regulated power and properly formatted distribution receptacle to operate. It is designed to be used within the euro format modular synthesizer system. Go to http://www.doepfer.de/a100_man/a100t_e.htm for the details of this format. To install, find 4HP of space in your euro-rack synthesizer system, on the left side of the Pressure Points to be expanded.
Jumper and Cable Connections: (Power connections for each module not shown for clarity.) Single Pressure Points with no BRAINS attached: Note all the "Close 4 Master" locations are closed, as well as the Expand headers. Two Pressure Points, chained: Note that the "Close 4 Master" headers are closed on the first unit (will be on the right when installed in the case).
Jumper and Cable Connections (con’t): BRAINS with a single Pressure Points: Note the single open "Close 4 Master" header, the BRAINS cable connected from "Points 1-4" header to EXPAND header, and the jumper on BRAINS set to "1PP.” BRAINS with two Pressure Points: Two is the maximum number of Pressure Points that can be attached to a single BRAINS.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Brains Panel Controls 1. CLOCK IN: selects next stage or number to be counted on rising edge of clock, gate, pulse or trigger, of at least 1V. Patch here to sequence 2. RESET IN: jumps to last touched stage on rising edge of clock, gate, pulse or trigger, of at least 1V. 3. RUN IN: Gate or logic HI (of at least 1V) will tell BRAINS to count, and thus RUN Gate or Logic LO (below 1V) will Stop BRAINS. 4.
BRAINS is a clocked sequential binary event machine, intended to be connected to tactile controllers such as the Pressure Points. Once connected, Pressure Points provides data input to BRAINS in the form of touch-selectable Reset stage and Hold stage. Pressure Points also provides the tuned voltages and Pulses per stage.
Tips & Tricks Single Shot: Patch any one of the 3 tuned voltage outputs to RUN IN. Set all pots in the corresponding row to full CW. Sequence should play through all stages. Now set the pot at the stage where you want the sequence to stop, Full CCW. BRAINS counts to this stage and stops. Touching any stage other than the stage where the sequence is stopped, will run the sequence until the stop stage is reached.
Tips & Tricks (cont’d) Roland m185 Style HOLDs: With sequence running patch same clock to Envelope Generator (MATHS CH. 1), patch resulting envelope to LPG (QMMG CH. 1). Apply VCO being driven by the sequencer to LPG. Mult same clock signal to Doepfer A-160 Clock Divider or RCD (Gates option set to ON). Patch selected clock division output to Brains RUN input.
