A-118 Noise/Random : Can't live without this little box!

I just love the A-118... so much so that I now have three of them (and my Eurorack isn't that big, either). Of course there's noise: mixable Red and Blue, for a wide range of noise colours, plus pure White on a separate output. This is handy but also pretty standard.

For me, the killer feature here is the "random output" jack – which is a SMOOTHED, rather than stepped, random waveform generated from the noise source. I've started to realise that smoothed random waveforms are rare on synths: when there's a "random" LFO option, for example, it's almost always stepped – which isn't usually what I want. It's the same effect you get with a slew limiter or the "output lag" control on old Roland sample-and-hold circuits – so, a random but smoothly wobbly waveform whose depth and rate you can control. It's very neat indeed for adding low-level, almost subliminal pitch variation to oscillators for a really gnarly vintage vibe, and I like to feed random CVs out to my more well-behaved monosynths to liven them up a bit :-D

A solid little module with a really neat trick up its sleeve: highly recommended.