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Highly intriguing news. If you don't remember these guys, it's Curt & Eti, who used to be around ILF a whole bunch. I haven't seen a ton of posts from them lately, but that's probably just because they've been busy working on their new pedal! This looks pretty nutso - it's a granular pitch shifter, and the sounds in the preview clip are pretty friggin' cool. Starts out in regular pitch-shifty land, but then it gets weirdly ring mod-y and tremolofied and synthy.

Also of note: they mention working on the PCB layout, which makes me wonder if they're moving away from the Line6 ToneCore platform. Hmmmmm.... hopefully Curt or Eti will stop by sometime and let us know. I was a huge fan of their bitcrusher, and am totally digging the clip of this new guy:

http://redpandalab.tumblr.com/post/1213217683/granular-pitch-shift-first-sample-from-our-next

I can has?

jrmy wrote:Highly intriguing news. If you don't remember these guys, it's Curt & Eti, who used to be around ILF a whole bunch. I haven't seen a ton of posts from them lately, but that's probably just because they've been busy working on their new pedal!

Curt's been working on it. I've mostly been slacking, facebooking, and feeling burnt out on guitar but I'm feeling much better now! Good timing for me as the protoype is almost complete.

This looks pretty nutso - it's a granular pitch shifter, and the sounds in the preview clip are pretty friggin' cool. Starts out in regular pitch-shifty land, but then it gets weirdly ring mod-y and tremolofied and synthy.

You ain't heard nuthin' yet!

Also of note: they mention working on the PCB layout, which makes me wonder if they're moving away from the Line6 ToneCore platform. Hmmmmm.... hopefully Curt or Eti will stop by sometime and let us know. I was a huge fan of their bitcrusher, and am totally digging the clip of this new guy:

http://redpandalab.tumblr.com/post/1213217683/granular-pitch-shift-first-sample-from-our-next

Yeah, the TC platform was always meant to be our gateway into creating digital effects pedals. Custom hardware is the future.

htsamurai wrote:I can has?

*I* can't even has yet

sounds great! is it in real time or is it looped? if real time, what's the latency like?
also, nice sounding reverb. especially the first pass with the pronounced pre-delay...

Release date and price. NAOW!!!!!

Also high don't think I've seen you before. I'm new

Oh yeah, I saw those pedals a few months ago, cool concept using the tonecore pedal, are there more builders using it except Red Panda and Line 6 (of course)?

Hi Thanks for the nice comments!

I've been working on this for many months, but day job has been an issue . Targeting a January release in the $200-$250 price range (retail - trying hard to keep it on the low end). There is a pitch shift mode (that clip) and delay mode, with some variations, and I'll throw up some new clips as I finish off the DSP code.

It's real time - not a looper. The latency is in the 10-60 ms range depending on some other settings. That's high for using it as a straight pitch shifter, but isn't too annoying because you probably won't be using it for straight pitch shifting.

I really love the ToneCore DSP Development Kit. Being a EE that has mostly done DSP and programming for the last 15 years, it was a great way to transition back into hardware. It's really a lot of DSP power for the price. Part of the reason this took so long is that I did prototypes on the ToneCore and a few different DSPs. Availability of the ToneCore modules was spotty at that time (better now), and I really liked the character of one of the other prototypes, so went the custom hardware route this time.

Toonster wrote:Oh yeah, I saw those pedals a few months ago, cool concept using the tonecore pedal, are there more builders using it except Red Panda and Line 6 (of course)?

These are the three non-Line 6 builders using ToneCore that I know of:
http://redpandalab.com/
http://muzemazer.com
http://www.pkeffects.com/

curt wrote:

Toonster wrote:Oh yeah, I saw those pedals a few months ago, cool concept using the tonecore pedal, are there more builders using it except Red Panda and Line 6 (of course)?

These are the three non-Line 6 builders using ToneCore that I know of:
http://redpandalab.com/
http://muzemazer.com/
http://www.pkeffects.com/

Thanks! I will check them out too!

Yours sound great by the way