RANDOM

one button, 4 billion ideas

RND synth seen from above, in front of red and blue lights

RND synth is a collaboration between cyma forma and french artist Bambounou, built around a single idea: stop playing, start listening.

each musical idea is made of up to four instruments that can live together.
each one draws from one of eight synthesis engines and runs its own random musical sequence.

every time the button is pressed, all of the many parameters across all features are set to random values, giving birth to a synthesized idea that only exists until the next press of the button.

not presets, not samples, but an infinite source of sounds.

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press the button. a sound arrives, fully formed, unrepeatable, unchosen. press again. it's gone, forever. something new exists in its place.

RND synth seen from the side, showing its connectors

RND synth seen from above: an orange case with a single big button

RND synth tilted, showing its layered transparent orange case

8 synthesis engines: subtractive, fm, acid, noise, speech, karplus-strong, supersaw, additive

4 simultaneous instruments per patch, individually mixable

4 simultaneous euclidean sequences, playable over MIDI: take over any track from a keyboard or a sequencer while the other tracks keep playing

20 scales, one per midi cc 9 value

3 patch types: looping sequences, drones or jingles, chosen with midi cc 14

6-channel audio output over usb-c: the stereo mix with reverb, as on the jack output, and the four tracks, dry and separate (44.1 kHz compatible)

4-channel MIDI in: play RND synth with keyboards or sequencers (usb-c + trs mini jack type a)

4-channel MIDI out: send 4 random sequences to other instruments (usb-c)

9 MIDI modes: global control on channel 1 (tonic, scale, patch type, volume, reverb), take over one track on channels 2 to 5, play one track solo on channels 6 to 9

MIDI clock in (usb-c + trs mini jack)

analog sync in and out (2 ts mini jack)

stereo mix out (trs mini jack / post-reverb)

power 5V, 1A (usb-c)

4 294 967 296 sounds (random seeds)

more to come