Manufacturer Description:

IDEIN is an entirely autonomous module that requires no user-input aside from light. With an All-Light Sensor monitoring levels of the RGB and IR spectrums, IDEIN detects changes in light-color and compares this information to the threshold set by the light sensitivity knobs. When a threshold is passed, a gate is opened, and a corresponding trigger is sent. Simply put, IDEIN is a series of comparators that produce quasi-random gates and triggers based on the color light spectrum of the surrounding environment. The big eye translates light to sonic form. Let your movement, the fluctuations in the color spectrum and the presence of infrared light dictate where you go next. Use it to trigger events based on visual information (e.g., video art projected behind you), dance in front of the eye and see how it responds, or simply let the hitherto unthought and seemingly passive movements of your patching become another active trigger source for musical (and not so musical) events.

Like its sibling Kilma, the atmospheric logic module that precedes it, the idea behind IDEIN is to chip away at the boundary between environment and music-making, as well as to lean into what makes modular synthesis so exciting: randomness, spontaneity and (often) the impossibility of reproducibility. The visual and atmospheric information in which IDEIN and Klima are rooted bring the abstractions of thought back down to earth. It senses where you are and reminds you of that location.