Red Panda - Raster Delay. Who is excited?

[Jwar]

My boner!!!!!!!!

haha

[curt]

The sounds in that video are better but I still think the octave up and octave down pitch shifting is way way off.

Yep, it was a bit off in the early demo units we sent out. I just finished some tweaks to tighten up the semitone/octave pitch shift intervals and tame some of the high frequencies for the production builds.

[Tristan]

Thanks for the reply, that's cool, I have to say honestly I'm a nutcase though, those digi EHX octaves also really sound off to me for instance, it's that pitch warble I just can't jive with.
I'm curious, are there different ways of implementing / programming the pitch or something, normally you'd think that pitch should be pitch right but in practice it doesn't seem to work that way, what are your thoughts on that?
For instance in my experience the Digitech Whammy doesn't really suffer from this pitch warble, some Boss pedals and the Montreal Assembly GB24 / CT5 are pretty good to great too but most other ones make me cringe, the BitQuest is borderline for me because it's got it's charm, I generally do prefer a more steady form of pitch though.

[Jwar]

The sounds in that video are better but I still think the octave up and octave down pitch shifting is way way off.

Yep, it was a bit off in the early demo units we sent out. I just finished some tweaks to tighten up the semitone/octave pitch shift intervals and tame some of the high frequencies for the production builds.

Curt are you going to be at NAMM this year? I wanted to meet you but you weren't there damn it!! This thing is so fucking awesome dude.

A note for next year, either way, please have someone let you borrow a bass. There was only a geetar there and I too stupid for that.

hahaha

Oh and sell me stuff too.

Sorry I'm going off topic..........errr....I want this bad.

[curt]

I'm curious, are there different ways of implementing / programming the pitch or something

There are different ways, depending on how much latency you can deal with and processing power available, along with what kind of assumptions you make about the signal (mono guitar vs polyphonic vs full audio). The most basic method is to chop up the signal into overlapping slices, play back each slice at the new pitch, and crossfade between them. The warble happens when the size of the slice isn't in sync with the pitch of the signal. Most (not all) pitch shifters use a variant of that method with different techniques for picking the cross-fade points to hide the fact you are splicing bits of signal back together.

A lot of folks like the artifacts of early digital pitch shifters, which is why you still see warble-y pitch shifting even though it’s possible to do better now. It also gives you interesting textures with short, tuned delays and lots of feedback.

[curt]

Curt are you going to be at NAMM this year? I wanted to meet you but you weren't there damn it!! This thing is so fucking awesome dude.

A note for next year, either way, please have someone let you borrow a bass. There was only a geetar there and I too stupid for that.

Summer NAMM will be the same Panda you met in Anaheim. I'll be at Winter NAMM though - let's meet up!

Bass - got it

[Jwar]

Awesome!!!


Also awesome is I ordered a Raster!

I'm going to be covered in Red Panda soon! hahaha

[UglyCasanova]

Boooooooooo. I want one. I should stop buying Seppuku's so I can buy other cool shit, haha.

[Jwar]

Just Nick did an amazing demo of this too.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbr1DsSIUZE[/youtube]

[Jwar]

Boooooooooo. I want one. I should stop buying Seppuku's so I can buy other cool shit, haha.

Hahaha. You've got your thing dude, it's all good! hahaha. I want all of the Red Panada's stuff. I feel like if I get them all now, I can keep up which what they produce. Unless they go Earthquaker on me and put out like 10 pedals a month. hahaha.

My unicorn is Toneczar, so I need to stop buying that like you buy Seppuku. lol

[UglyCasanova]

He did? I love Just Nick, but I thought it was a pretty shitty demo.

He should have gotten to know it better, showed what he did with the expression pedal and perhaps most importantly; gotten one where the octave wasn't that off-sounding.

Still. I need one. I had the Context for 1,5 years (just sold it...*sniffles*), still loving the Particle and want a BitMap for my VI.

[Jwar]

Dude the Just Nick demo is what made me want it really bad. Maybe I'm weird? But it's all subjective with demos. I think his are among the best around.

[jmoote]

The Raster kind of makes me want to make an all Red Panda board.

Raster -> Bitmap -> Particle -> Context

Would be pretty sweet, I'm sure

[Eric!]

I HAVE to have this. Reverse sold me, but dat RING MOD CLANGY BELL MODE? Shiiiiit, going to have to get it. Somebody tell me where to throw my money.

[Jwar]

I love it. So far it's a super useful delay with lots of variations. It gets weird as hell, but sounds very lush as a straight up delay. I really like the kind of neutral color scheme of it too. It's not in your face, but it's really nice and pro.

But yea, Eric, dude, try one. I think you'll like it a lot.