Living with an Owl
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 6:50 am
As one or two of you considered buying one back in the day, I thought it might be useful to describe my experience in case you consider one again 
So far I have only skimmed through it, but I'll update as I go.
This is the "getting started" PDF - https://tinyurl.com/y6spyefn
As you can see when you scroll down, there are four slots which can be changed, but while they're listed as nos. 37, 38, 39 and 40 you have to save to 0, 1, 2 and 3.
The hoxtonowl.com domain is no longer in use, everything is now at http://www.rebeltech.org - there are both FB and Twitter sites, but neither has been updated for a year or two, so maybe the boom time is over, but as they do a Eurorack version that might change.
There are 256 patches in the patch library, but some are the ones that come on the pedal and others are test programs so the actual number of alternative patches is a little less than that, and some may be rubbish, very basic or don't work too well.
You can create your own patches if you're a whizz with computers, I doubt I'm going to bother trying
Getting the patches in is a bit hit and miss (or at least that's how it seems right now, maybe I'll get the hang of it) and I've had one or two not seem to do anything once in, but that might be down to me at this point.
The only other thing you might consider a nuisance is that on start up it always begins at Patch 1, so you have to switch to the patch you want rather than it remembering its last position, not the end of the world but I'd prefer it if it did, as you're going to have to move the first two knobs to change patch and then try and get them back to the sweet spot.
Having said that, it makes some fun noises and the starting at A1 means that there's always a chance of stumbling on something new while you flail about changing patches - which I consider to be part of the fun
I'm not sure you'd want to gig with it if you wanted certainty that you'd have the same sound every night, but for me I'm quite happy to consider the unpredictability as a good thing.
So far I have only skimmed through it, but I'll update as I go.
This is the "getting started" PDF - https://tinyurl.com/y6spyefn
As you can see when you scroll down, there are four slots which can be changed, but while they're listed as nos. 37, 38, 39 and 40 you have to save to 0, 1, 2 and 3.
The hoxtonowl.com domain is no longer in use, everything is now at http://www.rebeltech.org - there are both FB and Twitter sites, but neither has been updated for a year or two, so maybe the boom time is over, but as they do a Eurorack version that might change.
There are 256 patches in the patch library, but some are the ones that come on the pedal and others are test programs so the actual number of alternative patches is a little less than that, and some may be rubbish, very basic or don't work too well.
You can create your own patches if you're a whizz with computers, I doubt I'm going to bother trying
Getting the patches in is a bit hit and miss (or at least that's how it seems right now, maybe I'll get the hang of it) and I've had one or two not seem to do anything once in, but that might be down to me at this point.
The only other thing you might consider a nuisance is that on start up it always begins at Patch 1, so you have to switch to the patch you want rather than it remembering its last position, not the end of the world but I'd prefer it if it did, as you're going to have to move the first two knobs to change patch and then try and get them back to the sweet spot.
Having said that, it makes some fun noises and the starting at A1 means that there's always a chance of stumbling on something new while you flail about changing patches - which I consider to be part of the fun
I'm not sure you'd want to gig with it if you wanted certainty that you'd have the same sound every night, but for me I'm quite happy to consider the unpredictability as a good thing.