Noise Engineering Legio is an open oscillator and FX module platform, and it just got 16 new colorful firmwares to try.
As many of you probably know, I’m a big fan of the Noise Engineering Versio platform—which I also use in my own live modular setup. The great thing about it is the community of third-party developers around this who create constantly new firmwares for it.
The Legio module follows the same concept but is more compact, with 6HP and designed for stereo oscillators and effects. Today is early Christmas for Legio users. Noise Engineering has just dropped 16 colorful all-new firmwares for the Legio.
Noise Engineering Legio 16 Firmwares
Three knobs, two switches, stereo input and output connectivity, and CV control over all parameters. These are features that are shared by all Legio algorithms.
The loaded firmware determines the function of the knobs, switches, and CV inputs. Noise Engineering has today released 16 new firmwares for the Legio series, bringing the total number to 23—plus others from third parties.
This massive release features both exciting generators and processors. On the oscillator front, you get
- LFSR Lo-Fi oscillator for crunchy tones,
- supersaw phase-mod oscillator,
- granular Shepard tone processor,
- full additive voice,
- karplus-strong voice + resonator,
- full phase-mod voice.
Then, there is also an entire bundle of new drum oscillators: more cowbell (because you can’t have enough cowbells), cymbal voice, kick voice, crazy drum, a percussive physical modeling voice, snare voice, and tom voice.
Alongside these new oscillator algorithms, there are also interesting new effects: a pitch-tracking downsampler, mid/side dynamics processor, and a trio FX, consisting of a wavefolder, waveshaper, and chorus.
Each of these new algorithms utilizes all interface controls with CV-controllable parameters.
First Impression
It’s Christmas in September—at least for the Legio user community. A really nice surprise from Noise Engineering. I hope they have something similar planned for the Versio platform. New algorithms are always welcome.
I hate to nitpick about these platforms, but I hope that if a Mk2 version ever comes out, the USB port is placed on the front panel; swapping firmware is a hassle right now, involving unscrewing the module and so on. Please NE.
The new 16 firmwares for the Noise Engineering Legio are available now as a free download. The Legio module is now available for $310.
More information here: Noise Engineering
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If they are going to keep vibe coding a ton of firmware, perhaps they can at least get creative with it and release something novel next time.
how do you know the algorithms were vibe coded? What’s your source—or are you just speculating without knowing it ?
The NE developers built the three platforms long before the “vibe coding” era, and they actually know how to code.
Noise Engineering does not vibe code. They’ve been working on this for a while.
And you obviously haven’t tried the firmware or you wouldn’t be claiming none of this is novel. Sure, some of it is fairly normal drum stuff or commonly used effects/oscillator types, but some of it is absolutely wild.
Why make things up? What value does that provide you?