"Continua is a stereo dynamic sampler and multi-effect that doesn’t just play your sound back : it listens to how you play and reacts in real time, capturing, shaping and transforming your repeats through a wide range of controls including mix, tempo (TAP function included), pitch, sustain, freeze, glitch, dimension, lo-fi, downsampling, reverb, smear and filter."

I am a huge fan of Continua’s predecessor - the Ricorda Granular Reverb, and will undoubtedly love this new one just as much - ...

This article is mostly about the new Guitar Essentials Limited Edition of the Darkglass Anagram - which is exclusively available at Andertons in the UK, and Sweetwater in the USA. It is a noted ’Limited Edition’ while no finite quantity has been defined or declared, so possibly the limitation is solely by way of those 2 outlets!

There are so many interesting angles on this release. The fact that Darkglass and Neural DSP were both founded by Douglas Castro. Douglas sold Darkglass to Korg in ...

A super busy month - with plenty of highlights and heatwaves.

My house is finally cooling down as I write these last few observations - we’ve had around 10 days of oppressive heat now, and there’s another wave on the way at the end of this week - which makes for very difficult conditions to have sessions with said pedals.

We’re in the final consequence of global climate change now - with increasingly more extreme weather patterns occurring - alternately cold snaps, heatwaves, and torrential ...

So this edition, as demo’d by Mike Hermans - is in effect a massive upgrade on the 14 Mode Mooer R7 X2 Reverb which I have and love, with the same 14 Algorithms being :

• Room  Hall | Church | Cave | Plate | Spring | Mod | Studio | Reverse | Warp | Shake | Crush | Shimmer | Dream

Obviously for the R7 X2 you have limited onboard controls, while on the Meta FX you can not only access Level, and 3 Quick Access Params - Decay, PreD, and HCut, but you can tap the screen to access the full range ...

At one stage there was a 50/50 chance as to whether I would make the show - as there were significant disruptions on the Liverpool Street to Norwich line - which meant a bus replacement service between Colchester and Ipswich. Some of the journey times quoted were up to 4 and a 1/2 hours each way! In the end the door-to-door was closer to 3 hours in total! The journey up including the coach was actually more fun that the journey back via Cambridge. Cambridge has obviously sinned grievously as ...

So this new H9 is essentially a fully-loaded Single Core variant of the H90. The larger H90 predecessor allows you to deploy 2 x Stereo Effects simultaneously - and hence is referred to as a Dual-Core Multi-Effects Processor. Where the new Gen 2 H9 has all the same key features and functions as the H90 - but can only deploy a single Stereo Effect at a time - hence Single-Core.

The original unit had a cool looking but pretty useless onboard interface - which was mostly saved by the Bluetooth...

I’m a little late with this as Meris held back the press release until launch - so I was only provided with the details at the same time as everyone else - which is really rather unusual. I had a number of other projects already on the go - and so I’m a couple days late with this!

As always - each Meris device delivers way beyond its specific core category, its Enzo X for instance is almost as much a multi-modulator as it is a synth - and here we have lots of extras thrown into the mix - ...

May has been a little bit of strange month - lots of delays really, and waiting for pedals to land.

As inevitably happens most months - much was delayed this month, and I was unable to complete some of the larger articles - they will need to wait until next month, there’s certainly lots of projects in progress. Where new and imminent arrivals kind of scuppered several intended projects - hopefully they can be completed in June.

The first event I’m attending this month is tomorrow - as a micropub ...

WHAT is the RECODER?

’A SPECTRAL MORPHING WORKSTATION’

• a signal cross-pollinator
• a dynamic filter
• a moving audio prism
• a ghostly vocoder
• a formant resonator
• a granular echo creator
• a sound-imprint machine