Red Panda Tensor

yek

yek

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Bought myself a present: Red Panda Tensor.

Totally love it. It's a "tape echo"-style looper that has been around for a few years. It's great for sound experiments.

The additional remote switch lets me have it on my desk. I control basic functions with my foot, and tweak stuff by hand.

This is a nice video:

 
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I love these kinds of effects when I'm in my room and it's just me. Super inspiring and I can get lost in the soundscapes.

But I've yet to find a way to really bring any of these things to my live shows with the band. Best I've got for "weird at home" translating to live is I do a weird ring mod thing in one part of the jam we do on Cities. And even that I can see the guys tense up and be all like, "Oh shit. He's going atonal." :D
 
Gotta make the sound, then the part, then the song!

My friend has one im gonna try in a few weeks along with a walrus audio.. fable? Lore? Both? And drolo stamme(n) v4.

I have a drolo strands and while its cool, its not quite the glitchy thing it turns out Im after. Sadly the malekko charlie foxtrot and malekko are done, and i missed one available.

Time stretching and granular synthesis delay are very interesting for sure. And even a boss dd3 can get in on it (so i bought one yesterday).

@yek did you try the Particle 2 and Raster 2 as well?
 
Budda said:
Gotta make the sound, then the part, then the song!

My friend has one im gonna try in a few weeks along with a walrus audio.. fable? Lore? Both? And drolo stamme(n) v4.

I have a drolo strands and while its cool, its not quite the glitchy thing it turns out Im after. Sadly the malekko charlie foxtrot and malekko are done, and i missed one available.

Time stretching and granular synthesis delay are very interesting for sure. And even a boss dd3 can get in on it (so i bought one yesterday).

@yek did you try the Particle 2 and Raster 2 as well?
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Nope, I am barely touching the surface of these toys and style. I like the Tensor because it's still easy to understand and handle.
Anything more complex (Meris Enzo etc.) and I get lost and lose interest.

The Chase Bliss "Mood" looper is also nice though. Check this:

 
iaresee said:
I love these kinds of effects when I'm in my room and it's just me. Super inspiring and I can get lost in the soundscapes.

But I've yet to find a way to really bring any of these things to my live shows with the band. Best I've got for "weird at home" translating to live is I do a weird ring mod thing in one part of the jam we do on Cities. And even that I can see the guys tense up and be all like, "Oh shit. He's going atonal." :D
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I think the fact so many people just play at home these days is a big reason why we see a lot more of this style pedal on the market. Certainly technology and such moving forward too, but to a larger extent its guitar has become more of a solo instrument vs something you buy and then look for a band to play with.

Heck, about 50% of my fancy delay and reverb pedals, not to mention most of my Axe patches probably would sound terrible through a mono sound system in a gig, but sure sound awesome in stereo at home lol
 
lqdsnddist said:
I think the fact so many people just play at home these days is a big reason why we see a lot more of this style pedal on the market. Certainly technology and such moving forward too, but to a larger extent its guitar has become more of a solo instrument vs something you buy and then look for a band to play with.

Heck, about 50% of my fancy delay and reverb pedals, not to mention most of my Axe patches probably would sound terrible through a mono sound system in a gig, but sure sound awesome in stereo at home lol
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that's a good point about stereo- there are a lot of really incredible pedals out right now that just don't translate quite as well without stereo. I guess in that way, they probably work even better with a digital setup like the Fractal stuff- it's stereo right out of the box. I always run a Microcosm in the loop of my Fractal, and it's great, but I'm much more meh about it running it into a mono amp.

On a side note, I'm so grateful that the Axe now sends midi clock- it has significantly simplified my setup. Thanks @FractalAudio !

I play stereo probably 90% of the time, but yea, that's church and home. If I were playing the bar/restaurant circuit, I wouldn't even attempt it, and heck, that's not the place for a space station-my-delay-pedal-has-more-computing-power-than-five-Apollo-capsules-put-together kind of board anyways.

edit: on a side note, I've just recently wrapped my head around SP/DIF, and I hope that it becomes more common on pedals as time goes on- keeping a digital signal going without additional A/D/D/A conversions happening is slick. Maybe as modeling becomes more and more common...
 
I play mono with my “big rigs” and it works well for me.

Excited to try a tensor sometime in the next 4 weeks given Yek’s feelings on it :)
 
yek said:
Nope, I am barely touching the surface of these toys and style. I like the Tensor because it's still easy to understand and handle.
Anything more complex (Meris Enzo etc.) and I get lost and lose interest.

The Chase Bliss "Mood" looper is also nice though. Check this:
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Chase Bliss Mood is awesome, especially the mark II version with stereo.

A pedal I'm having a lot of fun with lately in my tape loop ambient rig is Walrus Audio Lore. You can see it in this video sitting next to my Cetus pedal (the blue one), which is also very cool.

 
GlennO said:
Chase Bliss Mood is awesome, especially the mark II version with stereo.

A pedal I'm having a lot of fun with lately in my tape loop ambient rig is Walrus Audio Lore. You can see it in this video sitting next to my Cetus pedal (the blue one), which is also very cool.

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Wicked cool video. Took me back to Michael Stearns' "Lyra", which I first heard on "Music from the Hearts of Space" about 40 years ago.
 
TBH, I've never heard of Pladask :), but it looks interesting. I've had my eye on Drolo Strands. It's somewhat similar to Chase Bliss Mood.

My latest ambient pedal acquisition is an Industrialectric Echo Degrader. You can see it and hear it here:

 
I kind of want to sell my strands except for how hard it may be to get another (guy i got it from seems to do well with buying during the drops). It gets lots of sounds, can get the signal drop glitch of the stammen with the right settings, and the tape modes are nice too.

It just took me a while to realize I want the jagged abruptness of hard glitching which isnt really what the Strands is about.

I believe the nearest industrialectric dealer was blowing that pedal out a little while back (axeandyoushallreceive).

Ive missed a stammen, dwarfcraft grazer, malekko charlie foxtrot and likely wont try for the pladask fabrikat currently available.

The site delicious audio definitely helped point me towards some ideas!

edit: @GlennO it was this specific video that helped me get my head around the parameters a bit better

 
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Turns out that dwarfcraft devices Grazer got relisted. My friend (with the tensor) picked it up and we’re meeting next sunday. Robot noise ahoy!
 
Hmm, now I'm looking at the all-new Meris Enzo X.
It's a polyphonic synth. Seems much easier to use than the previous Enzo.
And what an UI!

 
Budda said:
I kind of want to sell my strands except for how hard it may be to get another (guy i got it from seems to do well with buying during the drops). It gets lots of sounds, can get the signal drop glitch of the stammen with the right settings, and the tape modes are nice too.

It just took me a while to realize I want the jagged abruptness of hard glitching which isnt really what the Strands is about.

I believe the nearest industrialectric dealer was blowing that pedal out a little while back (axeandyoushallreceive).

Ive missed a stammen, dwarfcraft grazer, malekko charlie foxtrot and likely wont try for the pladask fabrikat currently available.

The site delicious audio definitely helped point me towards some ideas!

edit: @GlennO it was this specific video that helped me get my head around the parameters a bit better

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Please tell me you're a consultant/beta tester for the forthcoming Axe version that does all this stuff.
 
yek said:
Hmm, now I'm looking at the all-new Meris Enzo X.
It's a polyphonic synth. Seems much easier to use than the previous Enzo.
And what an UI!

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Very cool! Would love to see/hear your discoveries on this one and to hear what you do with it in tracks. Will you use it as more of a creative tool or to cover keyboard parts when playing live?
 
Dave Merrill said:
Please tell me you're a consultant/beta tester for the forthcoming Axe version that does all this stuff.
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I am not (video isnt mine) but would love to try some glitch/granular delay to compare with the stuff I do have (strands, grazer, hopefully the tkog mini glitch when its back in stock).
 
I ended up ordering the Enzo X. Very excited to check it out. the demos of just the old version by boring pedal reviews sold me
 
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