Re: Walker Manual Glitch Pedal DESCRIPTION

[tEd ® KiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net>]

Sounds very cool Rick.

Keep us posted.

On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Rick Walker wrote:

> about my newly invented *Walker Manual Glitch Pedal*,
> Daryl wrote:
>
> "Details please!!"
>
> I wanted a pedal that could utilize a hand drummer or string or wind  
> intrumentalists' ability to move their fingers rapidly, either in  
> arpeggiation modes,  static ostinato rhythms or even just randomly.
>
> I wanted to be able to either glitch silence into an already  
> existing sound file or to take a random ambient loop as a sound  
> source and be able to constrain it to a very articulate rhythm  
> (including micro clusters of rhythmic 'rolls').
>
> This meant that the pedal's four momentary switches had to be able  
> to create sound out of an inaudible but preexisting track (buttons  
> cause sound to pass)
> or to take sound away from a preexisting track (buttons cause sound  
> to cease).
>
> Additionally,  Bill Putnam (who graciously made and programmed this  
> puppy) and I had been talking about how cool it would be to have a  
> rhythmically controlled noise box.
>
> Bill built both functions into the unit with both Pink and White  
> Noise generator on board.
>
> So, here's how it works:
>
>
> The pedal has four momentary switches (like the kind used on the  
> original EDP)
>
> The best way to show how it works is to diagram it.
> There are two basic states controlled by these four momentary switches
>
>
> 1)  *DOWN or PRESSED state* which can trigger either:
>
>    A) SILENCE
>    B) AUDIO IN
>    C) PINK NOISE
>    D) WHITE NOISE
>
> All four of these states can be further controlled by
>          1) Volume
>          2) Frequency Band (Sweepable)
>          3) Q (or width of band) (Sweepable)
>
> or, (and this is important)  simultaneously the same can effect the
> 2)  *UP or UNPRESSED* *state*   also controlling:
>
>    A) SILENCE
>    B) AUDIO IN
>    C) PINK NOISE
>    D) WHITE NOISE
>
> All four of these states can be further controlled by
>          1) Volume
>          2) Frequency Band (Sweepable)
>          3) Q (or width of band) (Sweepable)
>
> IMPORTANTLY each STATE (UP or DOWN) cancels the other state so that  
> whatever two sound sources are eventually chosen only one can be on  
> at any given instant.
>
>
> A very hip aspect of this machine is that one can control volume,  
> frequency and bandwidth size (Q) of both sound sources (pressed and  
> unpressed) while playing the four buttons with the other hand (and  
> sorry lefties,  though I am one,  it is arranged for a right hander  
> to play though it's not difficult to cross one's arms' to play it  
> backwards).
>
> I've been having a ton of fun by merely using Pink and White Noise  
> states.
>
> With NOISE CLINIC,  I've been running this box into a bunch of  
> distortion pedals (changing from gig to gig),
> a BOSS Slicer pedal and an IBANEZ Demon Wah and then finally, into  
> my LOOPERLATIVE LP-1  (soon to be LP-2 MINI looper).
>
> **********
> The pedal is in workable prototype phase now and our intention is to  
> add the ability to LOOP the data (NOT the Audio) and then be able to  
> sync it (or be synced) to MIDI for further control.
>
> This ability will eventually let one use a random length loop which  
> can be used as an external sound source for a repeating rhythmic  
> figure.   Because only the data will be looped and not the audio,   
> then the rhythm's timbre will be continually changing as the Data  
> Loop and the previously recorded Audio Loops cycle against each  
> other.   I think some really interesting and organic rhythmic  
> possibilities can come from such an approach.
>
> The plan is then to put it into a smaller box than it is in now and  
> depending on time and finances,   actually sell them.   Due to time  
> constraints of Bill's and mine this won't be any time soon, to be  
> honest.
>
>