I recently picked up the RxMx, a unique and inspiring mixer module by Make Noise. It’s a six-channel mixer with a crossfader that sweeps across all six channels, but you can also change the “radius” of the crossfader to blend neighboring channels – all the way from one to six at a time. Crucially, both the position and radius of the crossfader can be voltage-controlled, so channels can be scanned and mixed automatically using interesting voltage sources in the rest of the system.

This is a little study made using the Turing Machine Random Looping Sequencer to control the RxMx. I think the Turing Machine’s mostly-repeating, gradually-shifting random patterns provide a particularly compelling modulation source for the RxMx.

First, here are the 6 channels being fed into the RxMx. The seventh sample here, some echoes and a kick drum, are an extra layer on top of the RxMx’s mix.

https://soundcloud.com/paperwwwork/rxmx-turing-study-parts





Here’s the study itself. You can hear how much dynamism & movement the automatic mixing of the RxMx adds:

https://soundcloud.com/paperwwwork/rxmx-turing-study-mix





- Patch notes

- Turing machine CV input is patched from Wogglebug’s burst output, so it just randomly jumps out of the “16 step lock” setting to make small occasional changes to the patterns.

- Drums are all triggered from turing pulses & some from a clock divider.

- RxMx Ch. Sel is controlled by Turing seq out.

- RxMx strike input played by Turing pulse #1.

- Melody lines are from Turing Machine “Voltages” out into uScale.

