Also also (can you tell I look at this stuff too much? I hate the guitar-based focus of so many of these effects! Drives me nuts!)… Anyways: this looks really promising:
Empress Zoia. It’s a little grid-based pedal (think Novation Circuit, Synthstrom Deluge, etc). Flexible multi-effects box basically, and in stereo.
again: bastl thyme
There‘s a weird stereo thing going on with the delay though! From the demos I‘ve heard, the L and R channels just seem to be inverted. When summin back to mono when mixing and mastering, the effect completely disappears.
Not that bad, but it‘s not exactly the true stereo effect you‘re looking for.
I have been enjoying the Thyme a lot recently. It currently sits on an FX loop from my A4’s mixer and adds all manner of lovely textural weirdness to it. The Thyme can have a bit of a steep learning curve though, and it can easily wander off into mushiness - though that’s also sometimes fun.
The Jomox T-Resonator 2 is another device that can get outrageously over the top if not handled carefully, but when it is the results can be incredible. There’s plenty of routing options to mix the sound up across both sides of the stereo image. The only things I wish it had were savable presets (the Thyme is great in this respect) and either midi or cv/gate sync, but it would doubtless cost more if it had them.
I feed the thyme with some bleeps from a monotribe and that’s it… instant drone with a rhythm below and the variations are just great …
I watched the destructive clip and learned a lot on how to loop and slowly drift from one structure to the next…
As for the presets… I don’t use them Same with the sequences… too much preparation…
As with the Resonator it is more like action painting for me
Maybe also take a gander here:
Yeah I also like it, just beware its very noisy and has high hiss sound if colour (low pass filter) is open. If closed its not so usable to make great dirty metallic hihats n snares.
Also its outputs Stereo delay, just very diffixult to find the sweet spot without too much noise.
BTW I would be very THANKFUL if someone could show me( stupid) what to do with the fx loop out. How to connect to a mackie vlz 12 or Allen heat z10 (probably more complicated)
Goal would be to connect for example the tanzbärs individual out to mixer and play with send and fusion box for some lazy dirty loop techno jamming.
Maybe also helpful for others or erica to sell more of this box.
I absolutely dont like tanzbärs clap, through fusion box i like it.
Thanks have a nice day
You could look at a small eurorack skiff with some modules designed for effects / audio processing. E.g., the Mutable Instruments Clouds, and the Make Noise Morphagene both take stereo inputs and can do drastic things to audio signals.
Also, the Roland Aira modular effects units are stereo. They can be used standalone or in a eurorack case, and can be completely reprogrammed with software to do all kinds of stuff (you have a bunch of space for virtual modules inside, then you ‘cable’ them up and assign the four knobs and two buttons to the parameters you want to control externally):
+1 on KP3+, I use it as an aux send from zed 14 mixer to its own stereo track and use the channel gain to boost the signal, but it tends to sit under other stuff anyway. Keep meaning to set the eight presets I like most cos there’s a lot of crappy presests.
I’ve been sniffing around the handsome audio Zulu, they have a new 2 buss coming out which may be worth a look.
Right now I am having fun taking gadget and senode sketches from iPad through analog heat with KP on aux send and improvising live mixes to a zoom h5.
…bastl thyme and oto bisquit are serving me well…
and this…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPIY8XYeULg
mindblowing…but nothing u could’nt also pretty much do with some freaky octatrack settings…
Check also the Elysia Karacter
https://www.elysia.com/hardware/karacter/introduction/
Here Lem processing the Analog Rytm with Karacter.
+1 for the Zulu. Hope to see that coming to Europe soon.
Oh yeah, digital ice ice, baby baby. I’ve been wanting a dedicated Elektron multi fx box (with sequencer) for a while. Would be great. You could argue the Octatrack can function as one, but the effects in it aren’t that great overall, IMO.
The Monomachine is actually great for that. It could just do with a more sophisticated reverb for some uses.
I love my Retroverb Lancet, it’s a really unique box that makes anything sound better! The spring reverb is great obviously, but the drive and filter are also amazing, and triggering the VCA from an audio signal is awesome. Stereo would be even better, but mono doesn’t bother me.
Another +1 for Roland SP-404, it’s like having 30 great Boss pedals in 1 box. Only 1 at a time, but love resampling a few times with the different fx.
Cool video showing the Retroverb envelope being triggered by an audio signal -
Yeah, that sounds fantastic. Much want.
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My new unexpectedly cool hardware audio processing unit is my new Universal Audio Arrow becaus it lets me run all kinds of otherwise unobtainable gear on it with (almost) zero latency.
I’m considering buying an OT just for the thru and pickup machines. Saw a video of Cenk doing some live resampling, with fx and stuff. It is basically 100% what I’m trying to achieve. Tried thinking about how I could do that in Live and realized, I’m too stupid, and I’d rather make music than become a programmer. So I guess I’ll have to buy it. The fx seem fine, but nothing spectacular. Fader helps.