Bartimaeus wrote:Cool stuff, mate! So the Wogglebug is the only sound source?
Also, how do you compare the Pressure Points and the Meng Qi Voltage Memory? I'm really looking forward to the new Meng Qi Karp.
The Wogglebug is actually just used as a voltage source like a sequencer or LFO, and the Destroyer is processing (starving/agitating/freaking/fuzzing) the smooth voltage signal from the WB, which makes the oscillators it's playing sound all belchy and farty instead of smooth. The sound source is the patch that's in the Scooper (shown on the ipad), a pair of oscillator/filter/delay combos.
Pressure Points has better key sensitivity than the Voltage Memory, and a knob to tune it. It is the better of the two for hands-on, manual mode stuff like playing voices and sending bursts & tweaks, and I don't use the Voltage Memory in manual mode much at all, only to set & forget the 12 pads' voltage levels for each output jack (across 7 banks!).
The Voltage Memory's 6 output jacks can have one function per mode, whereas with PP you have 3 separate sets of jacks for multiple functions at once. I haven't had much use for Brains apart from the most basic sequencing yet, but that is very nice to have, so it's worth getting if you're going to get Pressure Points.
The Voltage Memory is light years superior as a sequencer & LFO. It's not even close. The programmability takes it to a much higher level than Pressure Points. You can write random sequences up to 64 steps. There is also an arpeggiator mode, which Pressure Points doesn't have. Menq Qi is constantly fine-tuning and updating the firmware, which is good to see. The updates are done with a micro usb (phone) cable, which can also power the module independently...this is one of the most amazing features nobody knows about it. Analoguehaven offers the VM in a separate wooden enclosure, but I'm thinking maybe those new lego-snap case pieces would also do the trick if I ever want to bust it free of the rack and turn it into a bit of chunkystyle desktop debris.
Definitely excited for the Karp, probably going to pounce on it the day it drops! DPLPG is also at the top of my 2 HP list.