The Sonic Power Of Nuclear Test Equipment In A Module

I teamed up with Belgian Eurorack module manufacturer Joranalogue to solve one of the biggest problem I had with my wall of test equipment: I could use it in the studio, but not play it live. It is just too heavy and fragile, being about 50 years. So that part of my music remained unperformed. With our new module Collide 4 I and everyone else can now take the wonderful textures and sonic possibilities of nuclear research equipment on the road.
It is based on a lock-in amplifier, a tool made to sniff out tiny fluctuations of a frequency in vast amount of noise. But Joran took the concept further and added a frequency shifter. It is module with vast possibilities, and I can only give you a small overview and intro in this video. Check out Collide 4 at your trusted modular dealer in person now.
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[@jinxradar]

Can we please pause to applause Jamie Lidell 👏👏

[@djktana]

@Hainbach, you will be responsible for my descent into hell of eurorack modules.

[@andreaswehrmann365]

Well, addicts are known for dragging other people into their addiction. So now that we have you ... we will not let you go. 🤪

[@ChainsawCoffee]

It is not hell, but heaven. These are the sonic refractions of sonic gems, silent in electricity, and then realized through a speaker. The cables are woven for us to climb to new heights.

[@robertalexander5297]

Wizardry loves Company

[@Lime_Tree_Audio]

He's already done that with me...

[@schlaflabor1]

Hell yeah, i stayed strong for so many years of not falling into that rabbit hole......today i feel extremely weak!

[@deeess6027]

OMG i would love to see a video of this being used like the original equipment in the original context!!!

[@Hainbach]

Yeah I hope someone who has experience sees it

[@tl880linux]

I heard the word "quadrature" and had to drop everything I was doing to stare intently at the video. The mention of the dome filter in the frequency shifter for the Hilbert transform is exactly the missing piece I have been searching for in one of my projects! And as always thanks for the killer music!

[@apexcreditor]

I am unlikely to buy this, not having gone into modular (yet?), but the sounds are amazing. I also love that you mentioned cost and gave a recommendation to those of us who can't buy it or don't have modular systems. My favourite video of yours is the How to Hainbach on a budget. This might actually come close as a source of ideas. Thanks!

[@zackcolbourne6921]

You could probably just buy this and maybe one other thing to interact with it and call it there. It seems to have a lot of cool individual functions in a single package.

[@stolencoats63]

^^^^^^ He said "and call it there". That provided a well needed laugh.

[@apexcreditor]

@@stolencoats63 yeah, music gear is already a bad addiction. I know modular would only make it worse!

[@TMeier]

Fantastic sounds. Love to see such an original module hit the market.

[@bitegoatie]

Joran and company do outstanding work. This module seems to be very special, even by such high standards. Cheers to all involved.

[@michaelkonomos]

The more I have been listening to demos of this, the more excited I am about it. I've really enjoyed the sounds of test equipment on your channel for a long time. And I love how you both didn't just try to recreate that one for one, but you tried to think more creatively - how to take it a step further and harmonize the old and the new to create something really remarkable. I am not swimming in money, so it takes me a while to save up for the things I want. For all this does it seems fairly priced and it's now on my short list of gear that I am saving up for!

[@Jonas_Mikkelsen]

This will probably be the next module I buy. Such a versatile and unique module.

[@CinematicLaboratory]

When I ordered a Collider at Schneider's today they mailed me back that you - personally - were in stock too. I consider mine to be 'quantum entangled with the creators' now. Can't wait to give it a go and thank you so much this collision to happen. I can't help wondering. They used this equipment in the 50's, so they're probably using something less heavy and more digital these days. Ever wondered what they're using in the 21st century?

[@kevinbatchelor9566]

Jamie Lidell is one seriously creative fella.

[@Hainbach]

Oh yes! Releasing an album with him in December

[@e.nordstrom3892]

Once I get back into buying synths and modules, this and a Moog Spectravox will be the next part of my journey. Very inspiring!

[@bricelory9534]

What a magnificent opportunity for everyone who can't afford the money, space, and technical knowhow for lab equipment. I wish I had Eurorack to put this fascinating module into! Love it!

[@richarquis]

This is awesome! There are a bunch of haters on the first Reddit thread, chanting "influencer!" and whatnot, and even on the Divkid video, people are asking if this module only makes dirty distorted sounds, without having paid attention to the gain knob that this video clearly shows - This module is clearly well thought out, as are all Joranalogue modules, and I'll be happy to add one to my rack.

[@synthmaven]

I like dirty distorted sounds so that doesn't bother me. Cost and space are considerations. At least this thing is small.

[@Brumata]

Well you guys certainly didn’t phone this one in. This is absolutely fantastic! ❤

[@linewizard]

God damn, and I was 100% sure Oneroi was my module of the year. This is about to give it some fierce competition! 2024 has been an awesome year for eurorack.

[@b.slocumb7763]

You have the best toys in the world. My little kid self back in the 70’s would be SO jealous! All I had was my Radio Shack electronic experiments board to make sounds with, or my kid guitar that I would bang on the strings with the eraser-end of a pencil to make weird noises. I never could have imagined back then that there would be so many more wonderful noises in the future!

[@kingstux]

Congrats, it's amazingly versatile and sounds amazing!

[@RichardQuirkmusic]

Thank you for making this happen. Can't wait to run it with my Bugbrand with some adaptor cables.

[@walrtbstudios5430]

Funny thing- I was watching Ben DivKid Wilson make some extremely odd noises with this a couple hours back, and I said to myself: no. Then a friend sent me the link to this, and I’d pre-ordered the damn’ thing inside five minutes. Can’t wait!

[@zemertz]

This sounded fantastic, I got to play it, and wow, some lovely crunch and huge range, nuclear ❤

[@bygjohnuk]

This sounds just wonderful! I’m not in the market for one at the moment (no Eurorack so far), so thank you for the reminder about Lines/Dials. Hope sales of this module take off, condensing a wall of test equipment into 20HP is no mean feat. Congratulations!

[@oed84]

that's awesome! a good friend of mine works at Joranalogue. chances are he's at least in part responsible for the design of this module. ☺

[@trublurider]

That sounds very beautiful. And seems so versatile. Nice!

[@VocalChainsStudio]

Beautiful and interesting, as expected with Joranalogue circuits. Congrats on the new module, Hainbach! You should pair it with Orbit 3.

[@APE-performance-electronics]

I combine it with Orbit 3 in two of the patches in my video. It's indeed a great combination! But then I've used Orbit 3 in almost everything since I got it anyway 😁

[@greencontact]

Woah this is incredible module, you are geniuses! Thanks, even like I would need more modules in my shopping cart..

[@MatthewReeder99]

We are indeed in an era of innovation in music hardware

[@famitory]

amazing coincedence that i was one of the handful passionately begging for a lock-in amp plugin on one of your original videos on the subject many years ago, and i just happen to be getting into eurorack right now. destiny has granted you the perfect customer edit: okay well, having seen the price maybe not the perfect customer... but hopefully it sticks around long enough for me to save up

[@SONWU]

Great concept and wonderful sounds. Congrats on the release! 👏

[@fleshsimulator]

This highly interests me

[@Hainbach]

Ha you need one of these mate!

[@brade42069]

😎😎😎

[@Selador_]

love to see my favorite new youtuber here at an old mainstay

[@Projacked1]

Broooo....you know what I'm going to say That BASSSSSS , more gnarly wooohooo 👌 Daamn I WANT this!

[@johnp9650]

This looks AWESOME! Congratulations! Great sounds!

[@sidsuperstar]

Im very happy for you brother. You sound so proud and happy that it is contagious. I am not an Eurorack aficionado, but as an engineer, I can tell (and hear) that this is avery well crafted piece of equipment (Joran captured very well the essence of the devices). My two cents is not only promote this beautiful module tonus (synth-nerds). You should also try this with bass and guitars. Since we are talking about amplifiers, in this case the C4 most add some unique saturation and grit as a pa for the guitar couple with a beautiful reverb. Congratulations and hope the C4 sells like hot cakes! Sincerely Sid

[@Hainbach]

Thank you Sid! Yeah it does work with guitar and bass, I should indeed film that. Good call!

[@fata__morgana]

Congratulation on your new album, Ghost! I'm listening it 24/7

[@Hainbach]

Thank you!

[@CyanTiger]

What an amazing module. ❤ I have a PAR lock in but it needs a recap. The saturation and sound reminds me of off center/side band radio signals. Def one for my wish list.

[@GrantGoddard]

The frequency shifted piano sounds really lovely

[@NicStage]

What a lot of work you should all be proud of! So cool to get all that stuff condensed down into such a small package and in the eurorack standard. Seeing the bouncing ping pong ball made me think of a recent video from @NileRed (Inspired by @SteveMould) where he made an "atmoic trampoline" which is basically just extremely "bouncy" metal that another piece of metal (like a ball bearing) bounces for a long time on. It ends in a really cool tone because it keeps bouncing so fast right at the end. Would be interesting to hook up with one of those guys and get it sampled with a contact mic or maybe even borrow one!

[@Hainbach]

Oh yeah indeed! Love watching NileRed, curiously calming

[@StellarWorks2023]

Congratulations Hainbach! Sounds and looks great 👍🏾

[@FSK1138]

i look forward to more in this series .. if you can could you offer this as a VCV module also i would buy

[@edda673]

Congrats with this excellent module, you both!! Taking interesting older scientific T&M functionallities into 2024 is just awesome!! This might be the place to thank Belgium radio man Jan Cosemans who offered me a LIA (besides some other instruments I bought from him) in around 2006 at trainstation Maastricht :-) When it became part of Willem Twee Studios (WTS) as from 2015 it was discovered by Dennis Verschoor in a WTS PDF and later Hainbach as being a super interesting signal processing device :-) COMPLIMENTS!!!!

[@christopherjohnson2380]

Just when I thought I was able to wrap my head around what was going on in most modules ... I bet this would work well in an experimental case with a Benjolin, Doepfer PLL, Compare 2, and maybe a Turing Machine.

[@snowbeddow]

If you are missing the big knobs you could always add Control by Music Thing Modular, adds 4 nice big knobs to give it that test equipment look and feel!

[@Hainbach]

Yeah for a bigger system that seems like a good way to go

[@joewhy]

Thanks! Congratulations and good luck on the road! 👍

[@manikcz2879]

3:35 is perfect 😁 great atmo

[@kenho4ba]

What a lovely module. Quite unique. Ordered!

[@BTRS77]

Lovely. Ordered. Dream come true.

[@StephenMcLeod]

Now this is a super cool idea.

[@chperrone]

Absolutely love the drum sounds coming out of this. Wonder if I could approximate using a resonater of some kind

[@spinyuk]

Oooh, man, that bouncing ball immeadiatly took me back to the Pi OST Aphex track, awesone stuff!

[@andreievkalupniek5717]

Great video! I don’t have anything Eurorack but this is inspiring! It would be a nice video if you could go over your setup and why you chose the other modules for touring, specially any tricks with the Maths module.

[@jurj4108]

If I ever get back into modular synths (I really miss it...)I think this will be the first module I'd get to start again :D

[@paulgutschmidt]

in love with the part around 2.22

[@SoundsMick]

Impressive! Lovely sounds, always loved Joranalogues approach of multi-functional modules vs multi-modal modules, it's how I imagine Serge systems operate, though I have no experience in that. I'll take two of these to go please, and will put them also in their own tiny case with some modulation. I particularly like the sounds at 19:40

[@Sonusproject]

Amazing collaboration, thanks for all this effort -- it connects totally to sonic ideas I have in mind. Could you please elaborate on the potential musical interactions and patch ideas for a single-module install and the alternative options/concepts which require 2 of the Collide4 modules? Any details on this would be great

[@Hainbach]

Noted! Will collect all questions and make an in depth video.

[@Silkynight]

this is brilliant. bravo on the release. 😍

[@deastman2]

Sounds amazing! I must have this computational unit for my sonic laboratory. Instabuy!

[@itsmelvv]

So much depth with this. Might have to rearrange my rack! Haha

[@daccrowell4776]

Nice! Yeah, it does the yowl and crunch thing spectacularly well, plus the tracking function is a whole new way to make entire sequential lines of pitches, not merely the one or two you get off of a typical lock-in amp. This thing screams "abuse potential"! Lo-fi producers will love it, it fits into ACIIEED really well, or you can just let it evolve textures. It's everything I love about my own PAR and EG&G gear, minus the hernias! I ought to get back in touch with Trogotronics...several years ago, they were rebuilding the iconic Hewlett-Packard 200 oscillators into lo-fi synths. I mentioned that if he wanted one particular module that would be guaranteed to fly off the shelves, he should try to make use of the UBM as the core of such a module. We all know what THAT box can do...but the idea of putting it into Eurorack AND giving it some CV abilities would be simply amazing. It 100% would take a tube-talented designer to make it happen, but I think it's more than merely possible.

[@dariusmorgan8302]

Ohhhh my goodness!!! Very exciting. Must have

[@kauwgomboom]

Called it on Modwiggler! Haha it is a lock-in amp! Now what to sell to fund this beauty 😢

[@DoktorApe]

So I built Jurgen Haible's frequency shifter module for my 5U system many years ago and the Hilbert filters required manually selecting a couple dozen resistors because of the large tolerance in capacitor values. This is ok when you are a DIYer but I can't imagine doing that for commercial production, especially in surface mount. Are the filters digital now, or did you find another way to deal with component variation? Nice to see Mr Haible low-key acknowledged.

[@Hainbach]

Oh that is a question for Joran, but I guarantee that this all analog. He is a master.

[@joranalogue]

Precision resistors and capacitors. Not cheap, but that's what you need here.

[@Mood_Organ]

@@joranalogue Can you speak to using the frequency shifter at very low (sub-audio) rates? I love to use this technique to create stereo phasing effects, but I'm always searching for a frequency shifter that can go slower. The JH one is the best I've found so far for this. How slow can the Collide 4 go as a frequency shifter?

[@joranalogue]

​@@Mood_OrganThere is no minimum frequency. The oscillator has a low range and goes through zero exactly for this stereo movement/auto panning application.

[@Mood_Organ]

@@joranalogue Sold! And I don't even use Eurorack. Thanks + congratulations on a great design.

[@curtishoffmann6956]

"When worlds Collide, said George Pal to his bride..." I need 5 of those...

[@Hainbach]

Me too! I really want a good tour able setup with at least four of these

[@michaelmazochi]

Man, that sound at like 18:15 sounds JUST like the sound at the start at "Milkman" from Aphex Twin....I wonder if he was using test equipment for that...

[@tracyharms3548]

Hey! It’s an R-100! That’s the drum machine I own!

[@tracyharms3548]

Hey! It’s a 424! That’s the portastudio I own!

[@Hainbach]

Good taste in gear!

[@davidboudreau4054]

@Hainbach: Please release DIY version of this module, I am a nut for soldering my Eurorack gear together. (Except for SMD's, please mount those for us). So far I have made a Befaco Voltio and Oneiroi, a Making Sound Machines Plinky, and a Tesseract Tukra. I can't wait to make this one too.....please please please....

[@toslinked]

Jamie Lidell is also Nuclear. Love this guy.

[@blaisebaileyfinnegan]

Curious about the reverse... Have any eurorack modules ever been relased in NIM-BIN format?

[@Hainbach]

That would be interesting, but the range is -24/24Volt, so double of euro

[@SuperPedalhead]

Thanks Hainbach, I'll take 2.

[@BatmanWangChung]

Suh dude! Fabulous sounds as always!

[@KorhanErel]

It's New-clear! Very nice.

[@yours_truly42]

That lo-fi pad at 3:03 reminds me of on in Kraftwerk's Autobahn.

[@framlucasse]

Very interesting.

[@jaguarfooger]

This is so cool! Your videos on test equipment got me making music. Please PM me if you would like codes for my Bandcamp albums! This module has seized my imagination all day. Lots of thoughts about putting together a 60HP system consisting of three of these; intermodulate everything! Very much looking forward to a chance to demo one of these soon!

[@TheOuterLimit]

Wow its the best post ever

[@raumraumraum]

Absolute jawdropper!

[@tonalaxis]

Awesome sauce!

[@tru7hhimself]

but... i don't have 20hp of space left in my rack. it sounds really nice and seems to be pretty versatile, even if i don't quite understand yet how the module works. and of course joranalogue is always top quality (indeed the 14hp i have left are set to be filled with joranalogue modules).

[@lundsweden]

2:22 Hohner Guitaret! Yes!

[@Hainbach]

Video on that next week or so

[@Mia1Goth]

sounds lovely

[@proxxyBean]

I hope this comes to VCV. It'll be in all of my patches if it does.

[@immersiveworlds]

Wow. Sounds amazing!

[@nikjewell]

Fantastic guys. Your experiment needs to involve radioactivity.

[@Noname7401]

I would like to have the amplifier and the filter be a separate module please.

[@michaelkonomos]

This sounds SO good. Want.

[@reggiep75]

How does this module compare to the original units and their sounds? Very nice product tho and it allows other people to enjoy the dirt and grit of your original units.

[@Hainbach]

If you mix MAG and Monitor you get the same sound as a PAR124A.

[@WillisZzz]

@13:06 running piano through the collide 4 for tones, collide 4 creates the rhythm

[@studio48nl]

@14:25 I was like, hey, I got a good Idea! Maybe I can use my SQ10 for this and add some CV...! Not realising the SQ1 is it's younger brother 🤦🏼‍♂️ a minutes later.

[@Hainbach]

Ha that is a lovely moment of realisation

[@modularaccordion]

It has arrived!

[@immeika]

i'm going to to buy this for my function gen

[@gregvittore5004]

I see awesome sound design potential in it for film ❤ great, know i have to save money 😅

[@circles79]

oh wow. this sounds nice!

[@d42kn355]

Looks like I need my first Joranalogue modue soon lol.

[@jandobbelsteen8953]

After a long time where I wasn't sure if I would be using it, last week I decided to purchase a lock-in amplifier. To experiment with students (I coordinate a minor on Signals and Embedded Systems), and to see what I would be able to do in experimenting with sound. So, after seeing this video, I'm purchasing **two** lock-in amplifier, the first being the Princeton Applied Research 5204, and the second one the Collide 4 module from Joranalogue. @Hainbach, I will keep you posted how they compare, both musically and scientifically.

[@Hainbach]

Beautiful! I only know the analog ones

[@cyberpholk]

Amazing! Don't suppose there's any chance of a kosmo format run?

[@Hainbach]

I have no idea how that would work, but I can ask Sam

[@Reijerszen]

So cool

[@jamesm28]

Roger Nichols would be proud

[@dr.syntheo9489]

Nice piece of gear

[@zlotan666]

Thank you!!!

[@LEONBARRAGAN277]

5:16 🖤

[@colinjames2469]

I want one now. Cant find a price.

[@Hainbach]

It’s 650$ MSRP

[@marcusb.5225]

650$ / 650EUR. It is mentioned at the end of the video