#44

I probably will be! Even though it’s so powerful, I’ve just never really been able to gel with the interface. Switching back and forth between tap vs global edit has never been great for me.

I really like how immediate the Mimephon seems.

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#45

Kind of nuts but I’m agreeing more and more. At least, there’s just a teeny tiny bit of oscillator in things I’ve been doing lately, but at some point the sampling, layering, effects take over. Accumulating reels in Morphagene, forgetting about them, then playing them back later has become my composition method of choice. The new MN stuff seems to support and encourage that path.

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#46

It seems like a really interesting and deep instrument, with simple and effective controls. It feels like a blend of Ecophone, Erbe-Verb, and Morphagene features.

I really admire their design philosophy and instrument design skills. To me it feels like a bit of an art — I get a lot of entertainment out of dissecting their design decisions, because they’re often elegant solutions to user interaction problems. An example of that is the different re-pitching behaviour for rate, wether it’s clocked or un-clocked. I also love that they include tiny extra features that add to the instrument’s patchability — you often find extra gate and cv signal inputs and outputs which you don’t normally expect from a generic module fulfilling a similar purpose. This one has a strike input — I’m intrigued to know what it does. Maybe just a noise burst from karplus-strong? I also don’t quite get how zone works, but I’m excited to find out in the manual eventually!

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#48

From @ebremot himself:

I’m taking the MP in an entirely different direction than the EP. In short Echophon: aggressive, dirty, low-res delay; Mimeophon: clear, deep, spacious, wide-range delay. I also want to hit all my favorite delay sounds in a compact module (flanging, stereo chorusing, either a dark, resonant, mid-heavy, bright, compressed, distorted or diffused feedback , combing, looping, UFOs, sonic booms) with lots of polyrhythmic (stereo-rhythmic?) clock options. all with just a few knobs and gates…

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#49

Any sign of a price yet?

#50

I wasn’t that interested until I heard that PC demo @desolationjones posted. Not going to be an early adopter, but will probably pick one up on the second hand market. It sounds amazing and will be a nice companion to the Echophon, which I love and plan to keep.

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#51

Tom replied to my question about the μ control:

it’s a direct modulation input that is suitable for chorus, capstan wobble, Doppler, etc. with skew the modulation is inverted on one of the channels (the left one).

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#52

Wow, that video really makes things more clear, sounds absolutely fantastic. Super nice to see them shaving a few hp off things here and there as well.

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#53

Just when I thought I had too many delays…this looks/sounds great.

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#54

Another thoughtful Make Noise module! Looks like it has some interesting support jacks as usual.

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#55

It’s possible to have too many delays?

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#56

What would anyone guess for a price? How much was the echophon when it was first released?

#57

$400-500, based on their other SoundHack modules. Lot of components crammed on there. More people to pay.

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#58

Looks cool. There’s always room for another delay (and another… and another…:smile:)!

I’m interested to know if the Halo+Colour controls are just simple diffusion and LPF stages (in the feedback path), or if there is something more complex going on?

I really like the feature for the rate control having tape style re-pitch when not clocked, then switching to divisions when clocked; very neat.

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#59

The color is either LP or HP, but it was hard to hear exactly what Halo does. Sounded good though!

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#60

Ah cool thanks for the info. I was hoping it might be a bit more advanced than ‘turn left for dark, turn right for bright’ type HP/LP

E.g. the Strymon Timeline combines LP and HP filter controls for a really cool range of tones.

From the manual:

‘FILTER: At minimum setting, the Filter Function provides a flat full-bandwidth response. As you turn the knob up, the repeats get progressively darker. Around 12:00, the filter is voiced to give an analog delay EQ curve. The darkest repeats occur with the Filter knob between 12:00 and 2:00 in these machine types. As you continue to turn the Filter Knob, the low end is progressively reduced, and some highs are added back in to create an EQ curve similar to that of a Tape delay when the knob is at maximum position.’

#61

I’m really curious to find out what the price of the new Tape & Microsound Music Machine will be. I’ve been thinking of downsizing my modular to something much smaller, and this would cover what I want pretty well. I could toss my Mangrove into the open spot & be done with lusting after modular for a while.

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#63

From what I’ve heard and read it is 16hp

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#64

looks like the comb filter i was looking for :] and then some