Befaco RANDOM8

RANDOM8 is a new collaboration between Befaco and MylarMelodies. It packs eight channels of random voltage generation into 8HP. Feed it a clock or gate and each channel produces random voltages on every trigger — useful for pitches, modulation, or any mix of the two. The trick is that randomness doesn’t have to stay random: press a channel’s button and it loops what it just played, press again and that loop slowly evolves into something new, press once more to lock it in place. A double tap returns the channel to full randomness.

That makes RANDOM8 useful in two directions — as a system animator, adding subtle per-step movement so a patch keeps breathing rather than tiring the ear, and as a way to generate automatic melodies across a whole rack. A pitch quantiser with 16 scales is built in, alongside slew, offset, clock division, probability, and a selection of random styles. Firmware is updatable over USB. A splendid module for all things random

Features:

• 8 channels of random voltage generation in 8HP
• Looping, evolving and locking per channel
• Pitch quantiser with 16 scales
• 8 random styles — weighted, alternating, wandering
• Clock divider, slew, offset and probability per channel
• Loop length per channel from 1–32 steps
• Output attenuator per channel
• Preset memory
• One-layer menu system, no screen
• USB-updatable firmware

U3HP8Depth30+12V60–12V12