Red Panda Tensor

whoismarykelly · Post by **whoismarykelly** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:09 am

Im going to be glitching the fuck out of some riffs on Thursday.

codetocontra · Post by **codetocontra** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:41 am

Shipping notification? Haven't heard anything yet, think I ordered mine right after you. I dunno.

cantremember · Post by **cantremember** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:12 am

codetocontra wrote:Shipping notification? Haven't heard anything yet, think I ordered mine right after you. I dunno.

I got a shipping notification today as well so I'm guessing it won't be much longer for the rest of em to ship out.

Jwar · Post by **Jwar** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:18 am

Got my notifications as well! I can’t wait!

tremolo3 · Post by **tremolo3** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:22 am

Jesus Was a Robot wrote:Got my notifications as well! I can’t wait!

codetocontra · Post by **codetocontra** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:53 am

I have felt very patient about the preorder delay up until this very minute.

Edit: I was wrong about ordering right away, I took a couple of days thinking about it too hard.

zoooombiex · Post by **zoooombiex** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:40 am

Yep, got my shipping notice too. Going to have to preemptively clear a spot on the board for this one...

ritz · Post by **ritz** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:10 am

Reading the manual has me hyped.

Space on the board is ready and waiting.

http://redpandalab.com/content/docs/Ten ... al_1.0.pdf

sostark · Post by **sostark** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:32 pm

Picked mine up on Monday. I love it

I don't use it for half the things it can do, but what I wanted it to do, it does perfectly. It was worth the wait

raj007 · Post by **raj007** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:40 pm

Haven't ordered yet...waiting to see more appealing demos and user feedback.

It would have to knock my CT5 off board to make it...

zoooombiex · Post by **zoooombiex** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:23 pm

Yeah, I'm eyeing a showdown between the Tensor, CT5, Revolver, and EHX 16SDD. A lot of overlap in that group, and I don't think I'll have room for all 4. But each seems to have a few unique bits:

The 16SDD has way more sample length than anything else (minutes), time-stretching, built in modulation, variable speed/direction overdubbing, fadeable loops. It's just huge and needs a special power supply...
The Tensor has a lot of the same looping features as the 16SDD, but only 4.8 seconds loop time. No modulation, but it does have randomization.
The CT5 has double the loop time of the Revolver & Tensor, and Mode 3 is totally unique (even more so since he added the modulation option). But static overdubbing (always recorded forward and at natural pitch).
The Revolver has some auto/random options that are pretty unique, and the fade control has more flexibility than the 16SDD. No overdubbing.

Looks like the Tensor will be here tonight. I'll try to weigh in when I've had some time to get comfortable with it.

whoismarykelly · Post by **whoismarykelly** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:45 pm

zoooombiex wrote:Yeah, I'm eyeing a showdown between the Tensor, CT5, Revolver, and EHX 16SDD. A lot of overlap in that group, and I don't think I'll have room for all 4. But each seems to have a few unique bits:

The 16SDD has way more sample length than anything else (minutes), time-stretching, built in modulation, variable speed/direction overdubbing, fadeable loops. It's just huge and needs a special power supply...
The Tensor has a lot of the same looping features as the 16SDD, but only 4.8 seconds loop time. No modulation, but it does have randomization.
The CT5 has double the loop time of the Revolver & Tensor, and Mode 3 is totally unique (even more so since he added the modulation option). But static overdubbing (always recorded forward and at natural pitch).
The Revolver has some auto/random options that are pretty unique, and the fade control has more flexibility than the 16SDD. No overdubbing.

Looks like the Tensor will be here tonight. I'll try to weigh in when I've had some time to get comfortable with it.

I look at this genre of pedals as two variations - ones I turn on and let do their thing and ones that I use in a momentary and dynamic fashion. The Revolver Im always using briefly to trigger a series of short loops. The CT5 Im usually leaving on and letting sounds build. I think one of my Tensors is going to be a leave on pedal and the other is going to be more dynamic with tape stop sounds on an expression pedal.

Seance · Post by **Seance** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:41 pm

ritz wrote:Reading the manual has me hyped.

Space on the board is ready and waiting.

http://redpandalab.com/content/docs/Ten ... al_1.0.pdf

On the diagram there are some confusing number compressions going on.
Looks like the numbers read: 78, 91, 10, 1, 12.
Which would make for two number 1s on the diagram.

As for pedal potential... very enticing. Should be interesting to hear user experience from you all.
Clip away and post 'em up in here!

tremolo3 · Post by **tremolo3** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:28 pm

Looks like the fun is, like I was expecting, in MIDI.
But what's with the USB-MIDI scheisse? Is it really hard/costly for these small builders (empress, chase bliss, meris, etc.) to add a proper DIN jack?

whoismarykelly · Post by **whoismarykelly** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:32 pm

I think they are designing more in terms of computer and tablet-based MIDI solutions rather than floor-based midi controllers.

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