Deltaphoenix wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:39 pmI ended up preordering for the first batch. I am stoked! May be my last biggish purchase for awhile. I figured pre-order for the first batch so I get a smaller tariff but who knows what will be happening in that space in a few months from now. Plus I just want it as soon as possible…
Good luck with the tariff roulette. Hopefully, that synth will deliver some pleasant drones.
I saw that the Fender Waylon phasers had jumped from $130 to $160. I imagine some more smaller builders will be forced to go the direct-to-consumer route like Chase Bliss and Hologram. For other companies, they'll be increasing prices by 10-20%, due to component tariffs.
MOTOR Pedal uses a precision-controlled brushed DC motor to generate sound directly from movement.
As the motor’s coils spin, their physical motion is captured by a carefully calibrated electromagnetic inductor—just like a guitar pickup, but instead of strings, the signal comes from pure rotational energy.
This is not a fuzz pedal. Not a synth emulator.
This is the MOTOR Pedal.
With five independent and completely unique motor synthesis engines; control settings—including analog distortion, envelope shaping, interval shifting, and a custom foot pedal that acts as accelerator, brake, clutch, and more.
I was not expecting that to ever surface. I wonder if that means their keyed motor organ could someday be released. (pre-tabletop)
What surprised me in the notes was that it requires 500ma of power. I don't think I've ever seen that outside the digital realm. The Moog Super Delay was 400ma. (I'm guessing most of that is to keep the motor(s) spinning.) Maybe someday they'll do a run in Bullitt green.
GL with it. I'm looking forward to more demos. I love the Plasma for drum machines & synths.
The AMT team has a new modulation machine, that's more than a Moog tribute.---envelope mode, a mix switch replaces the standard mix pot: deep/medium/low, JFET drive, 8 different stage choices including 12-stages (max), 9-stages and 5-stages. With the expression port for external control, you should be able to do a lot of ramping wahmolo sounds, not found on many phasers outside the discontinued Aphazing.
In addition to our standard Purple APH-12 we are offering this special Launch Edition release.
Each features a custom retro finish by artist Justin Hock and topped off with GØRVA solid aluminum knobs. Each one of these are unique and use actual pages from the Spanish architecture book ‘Taller de Arquitectura’ by Ricardo Bofill. Each unique work of art is a special one of a kind. Please View the pictures below and select the unit you desire.
Phosphene Audio wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:32 pmThose are lovely. Piranesi engravings would also work well for a pedal face image. [...]
One day someone's going to roll out a line of gorgeous pedals that look like nothing else on the market, and they're going to be vaulted to the top of the social media space overnight.
Engineers excel at technical things, but they're rarely the best at conceptualizing the aesthetic craft and presentation. It probably also hurts them that graphic designers don't grow up dreaming about becoming the world's most famous pedal art designers. One day, though, there will be two lifelong friends: an engineer and an autodidactic artist who take on the gear world together....and then some shitty company like Behringer will rip off their designs and say, "Here at Slave Factory X-Base 97, we've always prioritized and celebrated the free Bohemian leanings and visual stylings of sci-fi art nouveau, neo-cubism."
i would buy the heck out of a pedal with Durer etchings on them. or Keith Haring prints. hold the Maxfield Parrish, though.
i saw a demo of the Gamechanger thing that made it more comprehensible and actually generated some useable sounds, but it seems like the Microcosm to me, i.e. a pedal that only really works as a tabletop device. maybe if you sit on the floor next to your board?
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dubkitty wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:00 pmi’m not going to get into a “who came first?”
Alfons Mucha. Alfons Mucha came first.
...I still need to read over these notes to better understand the Motor.
I thought the Motor pedal was an analog pedal, but apparently it's got analog drive + digital modes, and I don't quite understand the presence of the motors, given all the digital stuff going on.
The MOTOR Pedal features five unique and powerful sound engines based on the motor core:
MOTOR - Raw electromagnetic pickup of the spinning coils. Glitchy, growling, magnetic.
MXD - Cross-modulation of the motor with a digital waveform. creates HARSH, DISTORTED AND METALLIc textures.
M-WAVE - A digital oscillator that's PITCH-LOCKED & HARD-SYNCED to the motor's output.
a multitimbral synth with aN IMPERFECT mechanical soul.
COIL MODE - instead of spinning the motor with DC Voltage - We inject alternating current into the motor's coils to create resonant analog vibrations & metallic hums.
THIS IS AN INNOVATIVE SYNTHESIS METHOD THAT SOUNDS LIKE NOSTALGIA ON STEROIDS.
VOCODER MODE - A 24 BAND DIGITAL VOCODER THAT USES THE MOTOR'S OUTPUT AS THE CARRIER AND Your instrument's signal AS the modulator.
This is not a fuzz pedal. Not a synth emulator.
pre-ordered in viperBlue!
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One day someone's going to roll out a line of gorgeous pedals that look like nothing else on the market, and they're going to be vaulted to the top of the social media space overnight.
