Welcome to the Rainbow Machine, in all it’s synthetic glory! This one
is for experimenters, adventurists and noisemakers. Totally not for
purists and/or tone hounds, there are no “natural sounds” that will
come from this box. It takes modern DSP and uses it as a tool of future
past to create real time pitch shifting using digital oscillators. The
sound is much different than most modern day pitch shifting devices. It
was imagineered to be wild and out of control and slightly imperfect
while still tracking up and down the guitar neck without glitching out. A
cold digital beast made to pretend it has feelings. It will do basic
polyphonic harmonies from a 4th down through a 3rd up and every atonal
pitch in between. You may add in an accompanying
octave to the harmony by bringing up the Secondary function
control. You can take it way beyond and open up your third eye by
bringing in the Magic. The Magic is the heart of the Rainbow Machine. In
conjunction with the Tracking control, the Magic creates wild pitch
take offs and descend’s, chaos chorusing, shrieks, pixie trails and
wealth of other general mayhem inducing noises. The pitch can be
controled by an external expression pedal for extra fun! The Rainbow
Machine can be used on bass, keys, vocals or anything else you can dream
up!
Power
A standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel, no battery option.
Expression Pedal
We recommend the Moog Expression pedal for the Rainbow Machine and can not gaurantee that any others will work. |