Noise Engineering has announced the discontinuation of Basimilus Iteritas Alter, Manis Iteritas, Cursus Iteritas, and Ataraxic Iteritas, as the CPU used in these modules has been discontinued.
In the company’s announcement, they explained:
“The bottom line/TL:DR: We are discontinuing the four core Iteritas, but Loquelic Iteritas, Loquelic Iteritas Percido, and Cursus Iteritas Percido will remain in production for the foreseeable future.
5U (the four core Iteritas) will remain in production as well for the moment. And if you’re still in the market for one of the discontinued Iteritas, many retailers still have them in stock, so you’ve still got time to pick one up.”
The less-expensive CPU that Noise Engineering chose for their oscillators in the early days of the company turned out to be challenging (if not impossible) for users to update. Updates to the early modules required a special daughterboard and a custom PCB and so on – a problem that was avoided in later Noise Engineering product lines like Versio and Legio, whose firmware can be updated via USB.
“We spent years living in fear that [the CPU manufacturer] would one day end-of-life (EOL) our chip. Over the course of the pandemic, we got them in fits and starts and with zero predictability, despite lead-time buys of over a year. We managed to make it work (and a giant shout out to our manufacturer for making it so), but we were starting to see the writing on the wall.”
The manufacturer has now officially discontinued the part. What does this mean for Iteritas product line?
Noise Engineering has seven Eurorack products that run on the discontinued CPU:
- The four core Iteritas: Ataraxic, Basimilus, Cursus, Manis
- Loquelic Iteritas
- Loquelic Iteritas Percido
- Cursus Iteritas Percido
As the remaining supply of CPU dwindles, Noise Engineering has had to make “a very difficult decision in a frankly bleak year to cull some of [their] most popular products.” This option allows Noise Engineering to set aside the remaining CPUs for warranty repairs. “If your module malfunctions, we want to be able to help, and if we don’t have any spare parts, we won’t be able to get them in the future.”
Loquelic Iteritas, Loquelic Iteritas Percido, and Cursus Iteritas Percido will remain in production for the foreseeable future. 5U versions (of the four core Iteritas) will remain in production as well. And for the four discontinued Iteritas modules, many Noise Engineering retailers still have them in stock.
Noise Engineering says they “have lots of ideas … to explore in the sound-generator space.” and “still have plenty of oscillators and voices in [their] lineup,” including the Tymp Legio for percussion and Virt Iter Legio for stereo sound design.
Since the names are in Latin, I imagine most have no practical idea what they even do. I just don’t understand the marketing desire to have confusing names for your customers. I’ve avoided the brand for that very reason.
These are massively popular modules in eurorack and most euro enthusiasts know what these are. It’s not that hard to read a product description -_-
Sometimes when i close my eyes i can’t see
Names like Jupiter-8, Virus, or Iridium don’t make much sense either, but that never kept people from buying them.
Yeah, like Lamborghini or Rolls Royce. What kinda tongue twisters are those. Didn’t stop me from buying them either:)
…the parameters like pitch, attack, envelope, etc. are not in latin, so it is just the name of the module. like Maths, A-142, Peaks, or whatever… . even if you don´t like the name, the module itself still can be good as hell……but it´s fine, nobody has to buy it.
just ask yourself why the production of the popular CPU ends? that’s why 🙂
Once again, the craft beer analog (analog…how pertinent to this site). Crazy graphical elements and star wars creature cantina names created in the morass of creator customization. Honestly, who the f understands that’s crap at the end of the day.
“Honestly, who the f understands that’s crap at the end of the day.”
People that are interested in creative synthesis, which seems like the point of this site.
Maybe synthesis is not for you…..
Stop it
From other articles elsewhere, it looks like they were worried from the beginning about the MCU going end of life. They probably should’ve come up with alternates for the design. For something that’s such a huge seller and core product for them, that’s pretty much standard operating procedure at most companies. I’m really surprised they haven’t come up with something similar/new/updated with an alternate MCU to either replace the module, or an alternate for the old design.
probably why they made the plugins for these in this case plugins should give you more flex minus the feel of controls here is some euroack for sale. https://www.ebay.com/itm/285430704642
Ego quoque nescio cur tam difficile intelligere nomina modules! qui latine loquitur??
Tibi adsentior amice. Barbari modo de musica nihil sciunt.
Tola candi kebt süßkartoffel