Hi there,
I’m looking for the module that’s able to get the most possible random sound out of it.
It could be a sample based, digital synthesis or analog - doesn’t really matter.
Any suggestion?
Great album name. But seriously, the question needs clarification. Do you mean random in terms of oscillators, sample manipulation, FX processing? Etc etc.
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Any white noise module would be the most random.
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Plaits
To be honest. The sound source doesnt really matter. Its the modulation that does all the work.
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I’m going to assume you mean “random” in a colloquial rather than technical sense, so what you are really asking about is a module with a wide range of sounds that can be accessed quickly without detailed preparation. I’ll also eliminate modules that work with samples, as that transfers the complexity somewhere else without eliminating it. So my answer would be a digital complex oscillator, like Piston Honda or Schlappi Three Body.
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Depends on your “random” 
Really “random” in the sense of “unforeseen” I would recommend to check out the “Benjolin” by After-Later-Audio. It’s baseline is the use of a “Turing-Machine” driving a kind of standard subtractive voice - even with feedback loops - and generating a quite exotic sound and trigger source.
If “random” stands for very different sounds, which can be achived and modulated to extremes, I tend to recommend modules like:
- Cursus Iteritas Percedo by Noise Engineering (maths like wavelets, fourier, walch)
- Spectraphon by Make Noise (additive synthesis)
- DPO by Make Noise (using particularly the AM and FM modulation features)
- Odessa by XAOC Devices (additive synthesis)
Each of those modules can generate very different sound-families, and provide a couple of parameters, which turn the sounds upside/down in a wink. Combining this with some random-CV or function generators like the ZADAR by XAOC Devices will give you a lot of “randomness”.
The Wiard-Malekko Noise Ring is pretty low on the mathematical randomness scale, but it is amazing as a sound source. Sometimes it evens sounds shockingly like an oboe.
If you want pure noise, there are schematics for reverse biasing a diode or transistor into an amp that generate pretty solid randomness.
Error Instruments modules can get pretty damn random!
The OG random modular:
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Plaits with cv changing modes is pretty random
The Euroburo has enough options to get you to random places quickly
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shapeshifter can randomize every parameter on the module (except analog wave folder) with a trigger input. that + the same feature in rainmaker would be intensely random
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