Re: Walker Manual Glitch Pedal DESCRIPTION

[Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com>]

Isounds pretty cool there rick, I'd be interested when you go into 
production.

Luck with it

Jiim

On 2/17/10, tEd ® KiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
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