What does RANDOM8 actually do?
It is an 8HP module that throws out random voltages across eight independent channels, each from 0 to 10V. Nothing exotic on paper, until you read the per-channel feature list. Every channel can loop a sequence of 1 to 32 steps, or slowly evolve, and a double-tap drops it back into full randomness. There is a pitch quantizer with 16 scale options per channel, including an unquantized mode and a clean 1V/octave scale, so a random stream becomes notes you can actually use.
The rest reads like a small modular system folded into one strip: probability that thins out how often a channel changes, a clock divider from 1 to 8 steps, slide for smoothing transitions into LFOs or acid-style lines, an offset that lifts the voltage range to clip against a ceiling, and eight random styles covering five distributions plus alternating and wandering modes. Eight preset slots, a one-layer menu, and USB-C firmware updates round it out.
Why does the free VCV version matter?
This is the part people will talk about. The same week the 275-euro hardware went on sale, on 15 June 2026, Befaco released a free version for VCV Rack with, in their words, full functionality exactly replicated, licensed under GPLv3. So the patch you build in software is the patch you build on the rack, no compromises, no paywall.
An open, free software twin of a 275-euro module is the kind of move the modular world rewards.
It is the first collaboration between Befaco and Mylar Melodies, and it landed inside a wider wave of free VCV releases that CDM rounded up on 18 June, alongside oddities like a Pac-Man-inspired module and a kick synth. RANDOM8 is the one with a hardware sibling.
