Walrus Audio - Luminary

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Damn it. This does not help me remain on track to buying a DAW.

In a dystopian future, a tyrant dubbed, The Luminary, rules in what used to be a free world. The spread of his reign is exponential, like octaves of power ruling submissive and rebellious districts. He preaches a polyphonic message that’s crystal clear. It is beautiful. But be not mistaken… it is dangerous.
Walrus cannot be more thrilled to release the Luminary Quad Octave Generator; the Luminary is a powerful polyphonic quad octave generator with features for creating inspiring symphonic gusts of sound. Operating on the Analog Devices Sharc platform, the Luminary gives you the ability to dial in any combination of four separate octaves including -2, -1, +1, and +2, the user can craft many different complex sounds and textures with crystal clear and immediate octave tracking. The Luminary has three onboard presets available for saving your go-to sounds, as a well as live mode. This means the user can have up to four custom sounds available at any moment. Get epic steel sounds with the modulation control unengaged. You’ll find more experimental options with the filter control or a swirling chorus with the flutter control. Couple the Luminary with an expression pedal to expand its creativity even more.
Four octave options available -2, -1, +1, +2 – The four knobs across the top of the pedal control the level of each octave. With the Dry/Wet control, the user can explore the ground between minimum and 12 o’clock to keep the octave signal lower than your dry signal for subtleness. The territory between 12 o’clock and maximum keeps the user’s dry signal lower than unity for a boastful octave sound.
The Attack control dictates how fast the octaves bloom after the initial attack. Allow the octaves to swell in gradually at a higher attack setting. Hear immediate octave response with the attack control low or off. The Filter knob controls the cutoff of a low-pass filter on the octave signals and also increases an envelope type effect at higher settings. The Flutter knob enables a chorus effect that can be applied to the octaves. At zero, the chorus effect is off. Increasing this knob engages the chorus modulation and controls the rate of the effect. At lower settings, the user hears a lightly modulated seasick effect, and when set higher, the user can achieve some alluring ring modulation type sounds.
The expression control allows the manipulation of any combination of these options to allow the user to customize the effectiveness of the Luminary: -1 and +1 octave volume, +1 octave volume, Attack, Flutter, and Dry/Wet
The Luminary comes in a sand pebble texture colored enclosure with black and red ink, featuring original artwork of a dystopian dictator’s watchful eye. Exact size of the diecast enclosure is 4.67” x 3.68” x 1.547”. Power requirements are 9VDC (250mA minimum)
Walrus Audio is offering The Luminary for a retail price of $319 and is available for pre-order now at http://www.walrusaudio.com and will soon be available with our authorized dealers.
Official release date is set for April 18th, 2016

[Confuzzled]

Wow. That is one beautiful trippy sounding pedal.

[Casavettes]

Isn't this basically a POG2?

[Jwar]

Meh. The last several pedals I've tried from them have been fucking terrible. They destroy your lows if you're a bass player. I don't get it. They look so feature packed and suck so hard. It doesn't make sense.

[UglyCasanova]

Isn't this basically a POG2?

Dingdingding!

[Casavettes]

[HighDeaf1080p]

The POG2 has chorus, low pass filter, expression pedal input, and presets? Ugh! how did I miss that? My bad.

This old man is still stuck in original POG land, and Micro POG land. EHX snuck right past me.

jwar: That's good news...I hate bass sucking pedals, so that might save me from having interest in this one after all.

[stripes]

octave pedals are so ~in~ right now

i've never tried any walrus pedals other than my deep six. which i really like a lot. it's a great compressor...

[UglyCasanova]

i've never tried any walrus pedals other than my deep six. which i really like a lot. it's a great compressor...

Mine was sooooo noisy. Something was definitely fucky with it.

[Confuzzled]

The POG2 has chorus, low pass filter, expression pedal input, and presets? Ugh! how did I miss that? My bad.

This old man is still stuck in original POG land, and Micro POG land. EHX snuck right past me.

jwar: That's good news...I hate bass sucking pedals, so that might save me from having interest in this one after all.

Had no idea. I have to check it out now. Always thought it was just an octave pedal without the bells & whistles.

[echorec]

Side-stepping the Luminary vs POG debate...I can't be the only one who thinks this is hideous, right? ----Red, black, and silver is great I guess, if you're from Jawjuh and enjoy cliched, tacky-looking, designed-at-the-mall type of stuff.

[Inconuucl]

i've never tried any walrus pedals other than my deep six. which i really like a lot. it's a great compressor...

Mine was sooooo noisy. Something was definitely fucky with it.

Mine was also hella noisy. I like my EQD warden though.

[toothsome]

Nah i think the color scheme is kinda cool. from a design perspective one of the cooler precedents/references for that would be Russian Constructivist stuff.



of course here it's the lines and the geometry that really make it impactful and dynamic but anyway i don't necesarilly think the color scheme is off. also reminds me of like an alternate iron man costume or something.

[stripes]

i've never tried any walrus pedals other than my deep six. which i really like a lot. it's a great compressor...

Mine was sooooo noisy. Something was definitely fucky with it.

Mine was also hella noisy. I like my EQD warden though.

mine is super quiet!

[echorec]

Nah i think the color scheme is kinda cool. from a design perspective one of the cooler precedents/references for that would be Russian Constructivist stuff.



of course here it's the lines and the geometry that really make it impactful and dynamic but anyway i don't necesarilly think the color scheme is off. also reminds me of like an alternate iron man costume or something.

cream ≠ silver

As someone who's always lived in between Ohio and Georgia, I've seen more than enough black-red-silver combos in my lifetime. It's exceedingly formulaic and overdone for sports teams, therefore I don't like to see it seeping into music equipment as well.