The New Systems Instruments Babel is a 6HP tool for creating massive intermodulation, and a workhorse for analog logic, depending on your use and interpretation of its function.
It has three inputs, which can be arbitrarily increased with the chainable expander.
For each of those inputs, Babel outputs the maximum value (ANY), the minimum value (ALL), and the balanced middle value (XSOME), which follows along the center values of the input waves. What CENTER means is adjustable via knob and CV control.
XSOME is interesting because it has the same general shape as a multiplication function, but with sharper edges. This means that Babel will create ring-mod like intermodulationābut with extra harmonics like those produced with a wavefolder, and with an arbitary number of inputs, instead of just two.
When viewed as a logic module, Babel takes any group of truth values and tells you whether any of them are true (ANY, the equivalent of āorā with just two values), whether all of them are true (ALL, the equivalent of āandā with just two values), and whether some, but not all of them are true (XSOME, the equivalent of āxorā with just two values).
Turn CENTER all the way to the right for 0ā+5V logic, or leave it centered for ā5Vā+5V logicāhandy when your ālogicā modules are really LFOs.
Video: https://youtu.be/uGZ8KUEXOSo
Product Specs
- Item Number: 19055
- Make: New Systems Instruments
- Model: Babel
- Condition: Brand New
- Finish: Black
- Categories: keyboards-and-synths ā eurorack
- Function: CV Modulation Logic Ring Modulator Waveshaper
- Made In: United States
- MPN: NSI-BABEL1
- Modular Grid: Eurorack ā ļ¼
- Dimensions: 6 HP 22 mm deep
- Power: 44 mA +12V 44 mA -12V 0 mA 5V