The latest loopop video takes a look at the Make Noise René v2 – an update to the company’s popular step sequencer for Eurorack systems.
Named for the French philosopher & mathematician René Descartes, the René sequencer uses the Cartesian coordinate system to ‘unlock the analog step sequencer from the shackles of linearity’. The original René was a one-channel, two-dimensional Cartesian sequencer with limited memory, the new René is a three-channel, three-dimensional Cartesian sequencer with memory for up to 64 complete STATEs.
Topics Covered:
0:00 What’s new?
2:00 What’s a state?
2:45 Three channels
3:10 Entering notes
4:25 Channels X and Y
5:35 Cartesian C
7:00 Outputs
7:25 The Access page
8:00 Gate controls
8:30 Glide controls
9:10 Quantization
9:25 FUNctions
12:10 Latch mode
13:25 Entering the 3rd dimension
14:00 State mode
14:30 State select
15:00 Z motion
16:30 Global FUN
16:45 Select bus
17:25 Paste & mesh
18:40 Pros & cons
See the Make Noise site for more information.
I want to love this piece, and I know its a very popular module, but Rene, no matter how many videos I watch, and this one seems very good indeed, just seems like one of the most UNintuitive sequencers I have ever seen. I feel like it would be unusable without the manual constantly open. How long does it take, in human years, to really get acclimated to this thing? TIA.
René is one of those modules that looks difficult from a distance but when it’s in Your hands it makes sense… all of the menus, options and patching are easy to understand & get great sounds from. I’ve had a few hours with the v2 for a week or so and I’d say it’s a major improvement over the first.