RANDOM
one button, 4 billion ideas
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.
Trade control for inspiration
press the button. a sound arrives, fully formed, unrepeatable, unchosen. press again. it's gone, forever. something new exists in its place.
press the button. a sound arrives, fully formed, unrepeatable, unchosen. press again. it's gone, forever. something new exists in its place.
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
20 scales
5 filter types
4-track audio output over usb-c (one track per instrument, pre-reverb)
4-channel MIDI in and out (usb-c + mini jack)
9 MIDI modes: global transpose + individual track sequence take over — with the other tracks playing (4 modes) or solo (4 modes).
MIDI clock in and out (usb-c + mini jack)
analog sync in and out (mini jack)
stereo mix out (mini jack / post-reverb)
4 294 967 296 sounds (random seeds)
more to come
That’s a lot of features
for a single button
