2025 2 LYFE ::FINGERS WAGGIN'::

[dubkitty]

i’m afraid i’ve given up on trying to get Pladask
gear. i wanted a Fabrikat but they aren’t made now, the drops are always more than i can afford, and they’re super-expensive used.

[dub]

Next mini EQD is the Hizumitas.
https://mailchi.mp/earthquakerdevices/h ... 5005b7cbbd



Guessing they'll follow the tour exclusive with a production version.
Maybe not the most exciting thing, but it'll claw me back space for another pedal!

[alexsga]

[Gone Fission]

If you didn’t click through, the exclusive Pink version is only available at Boris shows. So arrange appropriately if you want one.

[dubkitty]

unfortunately, they’re in my area at the worst possible time for shows, right after 2 shows in Philly in 4 days.

[echorec]

Weird, no newsletter about this. I didn't realize Blomar was going to be stereo.

They haven't sent out a newsletter regarding this one yet. That always seems to come 1-2 days, before the order page opens.

Here's an IG update:

STEREO FALMA / BLOMAR release October 19th 08:00 (20:00) CET.

Product pages are live on the website with manuals and demo by @sp3ct3rs_d3mos. Demo by @ponderer.sounds coming soon.

FALMA : Random vibrato, tremolo and panning
BLOMAR : Octave and pitch shifting

https://pladaskelektrisk.com/product/st ... ma_blomar/
https://pladaskelektrisk.com/product/st ... mar-falma/

[Gone Fission]

A Fender Godzilla branded distortion pedal has been spotted:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DP6sOtIE7gr ... M0OTB4cDF6

Chances are it’s the Hammertone distortion with special finish. Unlike the Hello Kitty fuzz, it looks like the original functions are all still there.

[Phosphene Audio]

There's so much going on here...a looper, a drum machine, a MIDI-powered polysynth, granular processor...

Ghosts is a 6-voice physical modeling effect and instrument.

NOTE: THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. SHIPPING STARTS IN 4-5 WEEKS. PLEASE CHECK OUR FORUM FOR UPDATES.

https://kinotoneaudio.com/products/ghosts/ (too many specs, features, modes to detail in a single post)

I am interested in this, but they'll go quick and resale will be astronomical.

It seems like they are doing something like what Eventide used to do in the box box harmonizers with the Sting Simulator. It used resonators and could be tweaked to do many things other than sound like strings.

[echorec]

I am interested in this, but they'll go quick and resale will be astronomical.

It seems like they are doing something like what Eventide used to do in the box box harmonizers with the Sting Simulator. It used resonators and could be tweaked to do many things other than sound like strings.

I'm not sure who did it first in the stompbox/rack spaces. Physical modeling is common for hardware synths and DAWs. CB's Lost & Found was channeling the old Digitech Space Station. I've been expecting more spectral stuff for a while now---spectral delays, spectral resonators, spectral filters. However, maybe the pedal builders will embrace physical modeling first.

Objeq by AAS is something I really like in the DAW space. You can instantly warp timbres---make pianos/guitars sound like wooden blocks, drum skins, bell-like resonances. I own Eventide's Physion, but I haven't spent much time with the MKII (also borrowing from physical modeling).

There are other forms of synthesis, which could be applied to the pedal world, but who knows when that will happen. Most people probably don't realize granular synthesis was obscured in the academic space for decades, before technology made it possible to fit it into stompboxes.

Staying in the DAW/plugin world, there are several offerings and features that haven't made it over to hardware effects----extreme time-stretching, extreme delays (Mikron Cascade can densify a sound up to 5832 times, thanks to a network of cascading delays), randomizers for scrambling pots and FX modules, spectral reverbs, and more.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Staying in the DAW/plugin world, there are several offerings and features that haven't made it over to hardware effects----extreme time-stretching, extreme delays (Mikron Cascade can densify a sound up to 5832 times, thanks to a network of cascading delays), randomizers for scrambling pots and FX modules, spectral reverbs, and more.

Still waiting on that Paulstretch pedal.

[echorec]

Soma is getting into the multi-fx space with a stereo desktop unit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tse5m1gnlFY (12 minutes of audio, no talking)


15 effects spread across 3 categories, such as:

reverbs to granular, experimental algorithms, with pitch-shifting, reverse and micro-loops.

[...] flanger, sample rate/bit reduction, vintage tape simulation. All special effects include unusual functions giving them a unique SOMA flavor.
Dynamic effects and filters — compressors, distortions, filters.

pre-orders open, info here: https://somasynths.com/warp_price/
product details: https://somasynths.com/warp/

The net price for WARP (without VAT, shipping, customs, money transfer expenses) – 490 Euros.
Available for direct orders from SOMA EU.

Mass release: early 2026, at the regular net price of 560 Euros.

[Tall Walls]

Soma is getting into the multi-fx space with a stereo desktop unit.

Seems weirdly reminiscent of the old Alesis Ineko, except more expensive and less interesting.

[dubkitty]

that’s what it was reminding me of, mid-80s rack FX with the functions all printed on the face/top. or in the case of my Alesis HR-16, on a handy label covering the inside of the flip-out lid and the top of the box it covers when closed. it’s practically a manual.

[echorec]

Seems weirdly reminiscent of the old Alesis Ineko, except more expensive and less interesting.

Peaches to pineapples for me. I still have an Ineko, which I love for its Trash Can reverb. I can make a Drone Commander sound like a cello with that thing, but I'd use these two boxes for completely different sounds. The Warp seems so much more modern and hi-fi. The filtering should be smoother, the distortion grittier and warmer---plus, the Ineko won't give you modulated verbs, micro-looping, granular/glitch, et cetera.

I'm thinking of the Warp like 15 $100 pedals in one unit. So it's kind of like a $1,500 tabletop unit for 1/3rd of the price. (if we're being extremely generous to the Ineko, it'd be like 50 x $40 plastic FX boxes...so $2,000 in volume...but no so much in quality.) If Alesis was still going strong, I imagine a modern Ineko would be more like $280+ (mass-produced in Asia). I'll need to hear more, but I've used the Cosmos. (have you used the Cosmos? It's cool for Frippertronics or Eno-esque hypnotic minimalism.) I imagine the weirder stuff (top FX) on this will be similar to the smooth, fluttering glitchiness of that. I feel like the Warp might be a stronger alternative to something like the Hologram Chroma Console---but much easier to use thanks to the grid layout.

[Tall Walls]

Yeah, my "less interesting" comment was just based on hearing about the Ineko, since I've never used one. Whenever I see a picture of an Ineko I think, "huh, that's interesting," while with the Warp I just think about how I have a bunch of pedals that already do that stuff.

I'll need to hear more, but I've used the Cosmos. (have you used the Cosmos? It's cool for Frippertronics or Eno-esque hypnotic minimalism.) I imagine the weirder stuff (top FX) on this will be similar to the smooth, fluttering glitchiness of that. I feel like the Warp might be a stronger alternative to something like the Hologram Chroma Console---but much easier to use thanks to the grid layout.

I have a Cosmos, and I have a strange love/hate relationship with it. And I have the same relationship with the Chroma Console. In both cases there things that frustrate me, but at the same time whenever I sit down with them I make music that I like. About a year ago I made a whole album's worth of music with just those two pedals. I think my lousy attitude just comes from the fact that I spent a lot of money on these pedals when I didn't really have that much money to spend, and whenever I see them I am prompted to muse upon my faults.

I thought about the Chroma Console in comparison to the Warp, but it doesn't seem like a great matchup, because with the Warp you can only use one effect at a time. So it's like, what, a super-focused HX One or something. The strength of the Chroma Console comes from combining the effects, since the individual effects aren't particularly noteworthy. Hopefully the Warp's effects will stand on their own, but I couldn't tell based on what they've shown so far.