The Haible VC Resonator is an evolution of Jürgen Haible’s Resonator which was inspired by the Polymoog Resonator. As Jürgen stated: “The Polymoog, an early polyphonic synthesizer, featured a 3-band “Resonator” section that allows Formant-Filtering in addition to its dynamic Filters. Such a Resonator is a very useful feature for analogue synthesizers”. Each of the three (now overlapping) filter bands has a control for frequency, signal gain, and emphasis (resonance). The VC Resonator now not only adds VC control for each band, but also extends the ranges whithin which each frequency band can be set - adjacent bands can now overlap or even cross over, for instance the LOW and MED bands can now be set (or moved!) so that the LOW center frequency is higher than the MED frequency.

Jürgen’s original Resonator (like the Polymoog) had a switch to select one of 3 basic modes, i.e. only one mode could be used at a time. The Haible VC Resonator now provids the same 3 modes as separate outputs so they can be used simultanously, e.g. for further processing like crossfading.

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The VC Poly Resonator is offered (only) as a eurorack module (fully built and tested, no DIY!).

Price: € 450

Jürgen Haible's goal was to build a set of VCOs that have the untamed bass range power of early EMS and Moog VCOs, but which are tracking a keyboard voltage over 5 or more octaves nevertheless. I found that "untamed" Beating in the bass range and controlled beating in higher octaves is not possible with standard exponential 1V/Oct oscillators. A good part of that special sound of early Moog and EMS oscillators is not because of any "randomness", "unstability", "instability" or "noisyness", as so often is said. A good deal of their behavior is because of that, but it is not the whole story. There are also some very deterministic factors in these old circuits which have been unpleasant side effects for the designers back then, but which are worth a closer analysis when we're designing a musical VCO today.

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The Haible LivingVCOs are now available as a complete module (built and calibrated, no DIY!).

Price: € 865 - AVAILABLE! -

CURRENTLY SOLD OUT!

Jürgen Haible's legendary redesign of the Tau "The Pipe" Phaser has now (and for the first time ever) been adapted to Eurorack format. The 2021 version is a new, skiff-friedly design. It includes some additions and modifications compared to the original Haible version like Extended CV control: -1V/Oct and an attenuverting CV input.

Haible Tau Audio Samples

documentation

Jürgen's original Tau Pipe flanger page

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The Haible Tau phaser is now available as a complete module (built and calibrated, no DIY!).

Price: € 400 - AVAILABLE! -

Jürgen Haible's WASP Filter is now available for eurorack in a dual version with some modifications and addons - including a MODE section that acts as a dynamic link between both filters. It allows to combine the filters in series or parallel or anything in between - even voltage controlled(!). Also, each side can blend from lowpass to highpass or bandpass (yes, the notch is in there, too!) creating infinite filterbank combinations. A Sync switch has been added to be able to control both side’s cutoff frequency with from the left side. The unique distortion can be configured to PRE or POST for each side. This is a (mostly) through-hole version containing very few optional SMT parts (not included).

Random*Source has acquired Jürgen Haible's legacy and is the only authorized source of Haible designs.

Dual WASP Audio Samples

documentation

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A limited number of euro kits (front panel + pcb sets) is now available. Please not that this is a DIY project - some sodering and building experience is recommended.

Haible Dual WASP for Euro kit

Price: € 90