This video got me so jazzed up about the BIA. I ended up buying one of the last new stock units from Sweetwater thereby marking the start date of my transition into the physical modular realm after having spent so much time in VCV Rack. My fate has been sealed. Kick ass video and props to Noise Engineering for making such an incredible piece of hardware!
Basimilus Iteritas Alia is the successor to the Basimilus Iteritas Alter. It was developed to sound nearly identical, with added features and new firmware
What a banger of a first video. Hope you put out more content. I’ve seen ppl make less of a techno track with a rack 4 times this size. Dunno if that speaks of the BIA or yourself as a musician (probably both). Well done ! 👍🏻
Thank you that is super kind. I think one of the common pitfalls of gear acquisition is wanting to use everything all the time, which can lead to cluttered mixes and/or option paralysis. In a space with many interesting choices like eurorack, I find thoughtful curation and parameters to be even more vital to both the creative process and the listener experience. And yes more videos to come!
I just bought the new version. It is awesome. I am on the fence about the firmware update to change the sounds to the other 2 modules, but at least its available, i guess.
Good question.. not a full on replacement but Tymp Legio achieves similar, though less aggressive sounds. I’ve used a few of the stranger drum modules… among them SSL Thundrum is pretty crazy FM and fully analog for that clang and dive bomb kicks, Plaits can do mode switching but is more polite, plenty of good kicks out there too like Crater. But nothing has that gruesome edge plus the cv controlled percussion mode in a single module like BIA to my knowledge.
@@thebobbybabbitt7703 Yes, I saw the announcement a few months back when they brought it back on Alia. In fact, I have one on order - they had a special deal over the holidays where they will throw in a free distortion module if you buy a module so I pulled the trigger on the BIA. It was supposed to arrive yesterday but it’s USPS so 🤷🏻♂️
Oh snap! Wait a second. It's not really gone. Noise Engineering just repackaged it in a new version with the Alia line. But not before causing a "got to get the original version before it's gone forever" rush. Great way to move all your old stock of the OG module before reintroducing basically the same module in a new skin very shortly thereafter. Douchey marketing.
It’s completely different hardware from my understanding. The original XMOS chip has been end of life’d by the manufacturer of those chips. The new chips are based on Daisy I believe. I’m sure sound comparisons will be made but I don’t have the new one to say for sure.
XMOS chip that powers the whole Iteritas line reached end of life by the chip manufacturer, and reconfiguring for another chip would be time consuming, expensive while not quite sounding the same.
