Make Noise PoliMATHS is available now, and it’s like a super MATHS function generator that generates from one signal eight complex but uniquely routable functions.
Quite unexpectedly and without any teaser, Make Noise conjured up the Polymaths at the Superbooth 25. Initially, many, including myself, thought it was the next generation of the almost legendary Maths module.
Wrong, it’s a standalone modulation module based on Maths, but not a successor to it. Make Noise has today announced the Polimaths’ availability, including the full feature set.
Make Noise PoliMATHS
PoliMATHS is a 20HP eight-channel CV and audio event generator for Eurorack. It’s also a new module for the Make Noise New Universal Synthesizer System. Don’t worry, it’s not another LFO or envelope module that exists in countless versions.
It has an original concept and follows a similar idea to the recently released Multimod, where multiple signals are created from a single signal.
PoliMATHS uses a single trigger input and a single set of controls to generate complex functions at eight independent channel outputs. The core of the function consists of two components: a rise-fall envelope and a variable-shape oscillation. The latter is controlled over time by the rise-fall envelope.
Indeed, the rise-fall envelope is an element that is best known from the MATHS, Function, and O-Coast Slope. The oscillation can be two things. You can generate from low-frequency complex control functions or audio events/notes with optional 1v/oct CV tuned pitch control via audio frequency.
To avoid signal collisions /tangled signals when multiple outputs are active, PoliMATHS uses various pattern modes to activate the channels: index, round, and parallel. Additionally, there is a spread parameter that manipulates the behavior of the individual outputs.
This creates very complex, evolving functions that are reminiscent of sequences at times. To reduce cables, it also includes output headers for creating pre-patched connections to the control inputs of QXG.
The new module is designed to work with the MultiMod, QXG, and future NUSS modules. Neat, you can chain the module to QXG for immediate 8-channel amplitude control.
PoliMATHS isn’t a mod for everyone, nor is it a starter module. For me, it looks great if you search for a multi-event modulator, meaning you can achieve multiple events with different modulation impacts (cutoff modulation, oscillator modulation, effect modulation) using a single signal.
But I really like the conceptual “one-to-many” approach Make Noise takes with the new modules, and that new oscillator (teaser) in the video sounds gorgeous.
Make Noise Polimaths is available now for $459.
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Article from May 9th, 2025
The Maths function generator is one of the most popular Eurorack modules. It’s so ubiquitous in the modulation world that a company with a yellow logo released a clone for a fraction of the original price.
But that didn’t stop Make Noise from continuing to sell the module and simultaneously working on another version. At Superbooth 2025, Make Noise showcases Polymaths, a new function generator based on the original Maths.
First Details
Polimaths is a new addition to Make Noise’s new Universal Synthesizer System, which already includes the Multimod and Jumbler modules. It is based on the super-popular Maths function generator, but it isn’t a successor.
Like the previous new Universal Synthesizer System modules, it continues the concept of one signal and makes many out of it. The core relies on the activate, span, channel index, and spread functions, also available in the Multimod.
Polimaths takes the triggered function of the Maths module and some other bits and expands it with features and eight channels. Like on the original Maths, you can find a rise and fall function generator with curve control.
A highlight of the Maths was the possibility of setting it into self-oscillation and using it as an oscillator. This functionality is again available but in an extended form in a new oscillation section.
This basically envelopes the oscillation that can be a saw, triangle or ramp waveform. The enveloped waveform produces a very special, organic modulation signal. The spread function allows all the channels to have different parameter values. Turn the spread to the right, and it maps the attenuverter values more to the right parameters and vice versa.
There are three operation modes. Channel index is the default mode. Using the span control, if a span control hits a channel, it generates the functions. There is also a cycling and a round mode, where each new gate creates a new function on the next channel. It gives you a jumping characteristic.
Good news: if eight channels aren’t enough, you can also daisy chain with another to 16 channels, using the channel index output. The channel index knob follows the channel further to the next module.
First Impression
At first glance, this appears to be an exciting new take on the Maths module. It’s certainly not a successor, but rather a new, multi-voice approach. I still have a few questions, but it looks very intruiging.
Make Noise Polimaths availability and price are TBA.
More information here: Make Noise
Beginning: “Make Noise Polimaths is the successor of the super popular Maths function generator with eight channels, and more.“
Further down: “It is based on the super popular Maths function generator, but it isn’t a successor.”
So is it a successor or isn’t it? Mind you, not trying to be a jerk. Just confused.
sorry I need to correct it. It was written in the night after 9 hours working on Superbooth. It’s not a successor as it has a different concept