Blukac Endless Processor Part Two

[noctambulance]

For those waiting on theirs in the mail: mine finally hit the US after 3 weeks. Hoping it shows up this week.

[Aleksey]

Just received mine, sucks that I'll travel whole week and won't get a chance to play with it until weekend.

[closedLoop]

I nabbed one on the last batch, but I just noticed that Perfect Circuit has a preorder up for the Endless Processor:
https://www.perfectcircuit.com/blukac-e ... essor.html

PC's stock status is sometime not so clear, but this seem to indicate they expect to receive some, and black ones at that.

[noctambulance]

I nabbed one on the last batch, but I just noticed that Perfect Circuit has a preorder up for the Endless Processor:
https://www.perfectcircuit.com/blukac-e ... essor.html

PC's stock status is sometime not so clear, but this seem to indicate they expect to receive some, and black ones at that.

I have never had a successful preorder with Perfect Circuit. After a few instances of them going on for MONTHS I decided to only buy in-stock items from them. There are several other stores, like CONTROL, that won't oversell their allotment on preorders. PC will, and won't ever tell you what your place in line is.

[AbundantChoice]

Got mine yesterday, have been alternating feeding it with pretty piano loops and circuit bent vocal synthesis nonsense from ERD_WORM. It's a really interesting module!

[snailed]

Perfect Circuit preorders are up. Just grabbed one

[PolarIceCaves]

Same with Juno. Says they will be available in June. Happy waiting.

[KolmasPaeae]

It's worth the wait.

[noctambulance]

Initial observations:

I installed the new firmware update, but I have not tried the new features introduced in that yet. I wanted to first get a feel for the default options.

1. I don't know if there is a way to predictably control what audio you are going to loop. There is some delay between hitting the button and getting the sound, because it is analyzing the buffer to deliver the sustained sample. So for percussive sounds or audio with silence, it is tricky to get something interesting. Perhaps it will become clearer after more use.

2. Percussive sounds, complex audio can result in what sounds like a heavy reverb wash. I am still experimenting with what sorts of source material sound best with it. Some sounds also seem to work better at some memory knob settings. Perhaps more complex sounds work better at shorter memory settings.

3. Varying the memory time setting per layer produces some very interesting beating between the layers and letting things run for a while, things evolve in a pleasant way.

4. I think the amount of CV control is adequate and ergonomics are fine. The module is well-built and good quality. The price is right for what it is. It is built on the Electrosmith Daisy platform, and updating the firmware via the website was very easy.

5. The EP does not offer any sort of control over pitch/length/individual layer volume etc. once your audio is captured. It sustains what you put into it nicely. It is cool that you can add and delete 5 layers per channel, allowing for subtle or drastic changes per your preference.

6. The fade in / out does not fade from the current buffer material to the newly captured (that would be a lot of processing). If you don't have your audio input volume turned up at least somewhat, then you will hear silence.


7. The audio quality is good.

8. I think it is unique enough module to keep, even if you already have other modules that do FFT sort of operations. I'm not seeing much overlap with Panharmonium, Aurora, etc.

I'm looking forward to exploring it more.

[Ras Thavas]

...Varying the memory time setting per layer produces some very interesting beating between the layers and letting things run for a while, things evolve in a pleasant way.

This 100%, the EP can be almost hypnotic to if you can let yourself get into listening closely.

[fastlanestranger]

Last night I experimented with running pieces of traditional, classical string quartet music into the EP and capturing random snippets. Never employed more than three layers simultaneously, but used the technique of changing the buffer size for each layer. Oh man, the beautiful wall of sound I got was just astounding. Looks like I'm going to be a famous drone artist after all, folks!

[Kosmikos]

Last night I experimented with running pieces of traditional, classical string quartet music into the EP and capturing random snippets. Never employed more than three layers simultaneously, but used the technique of changing the buffer size for each layer. Oh man, the beautiful wall of sound I got was just astounding. Looks like I'm going to be a famous drone artist after all, folks!

We’re all are
My initial jam video is slowly heading towards the 1000 views (870 currently). Way above my previous personal best!

[fastlanestranger]

Last night I experimented with running pieces of traditional, classical string quartet music into the EP and capturing random snippets. Never employed more than three layers simultaneously, but used the technique of changing the buffer size for each layer. Oh man, the beautiful wall of sound I got was just astounding. Looks like I'm going to be a famous drone artist after all, folks!

We’re all are
My initial jam video is slowly heading towards the 1000 views (870 currently). Way above my previous personal best!

That is so rad. I'm grateful to Blukač for the new career I've been given. This morning I'm fooling around with resampling into the Salmple and I'm getting some chord stabs that would make Sons of da Loop da Loop Era quite envious. So fun.

[fastlanestranger]

Posted this over on lines but thought I'd drop it here too in the hopes of getting people triple-hyped about this awesome module. Sorry for the camera angle...I'm not so hot at this stuff yet lol

[fosferus]

analog haven has a preorder up for this

[oder]

Preorders are also up at Schneiders - how was EU customs experience for others when ordering through reverb or directly?

[mrtweed]

I ordered through reverb to Ireland. shipped on the 4th january and was in my hands on the 13th. total with shipping was approx. €276.97 and I had to pay an additional €76.39 in VAT and handling fees.

[oder]

I ordered through reverb to Ireland. shipped on the 4th january and was in my hands on the 13th. total with shipping was approx. €276.97 and I had to pay an additional €76.39 in VAT and handling fees.

thanks for the detailed info! so Schneiders seems reasonable.

[nphase]

have any of the perfect circuit preorders shipped?

[Kosmikos]

Also now available for preorder on elevatorsound.com:
https://www.elevatorsound.com/product/b ... ule-black/

[snailed]

have any of the perfect circuit preorders shipped?

i'd be curious to know a general time-period for when they'll get here. i can't wait.

[fosferus]

i'm wondering if a kind soul could humor me with assistance here - i have quite a specific use case in mind for this module, but not sure if it will give the results i expect. if someone feels up to it, could they post results of running this sample through it? i'm quite interested in hearing how more dense, distorted melodic things sound. here's the sample i'd use to test:

Lakinis Juice Infinite Loop mp3.mp3

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[ProggyBoog]

i'm wondering if a kind soul could humor me with assistance here - i have quite a specific use case in mind for this module, but not sure if it will give the results i expect. if someone feels up to it, could they post results of running this sample through it? i'm quite interested in hearing how more dense, distorted melodic things sound. here's the sample i'd use to test:

Lakinis Juice Infinite Loop mp3.mp3

So, before I even try this, EP can sample and reprocess between 100ms and 3 seconds of audio. Your sample is 7 seconds long. What portion of it would you want to see processed? Also, I recommend a WAV, not an MP3 for this.

I don't think this is going to work the way you want, but I'm not sure because you haven't said what you're hoping to accomplish with it.

[Kosmikos]

i'm wondering if a kind soul could humor me with assistance here - i have quite a specific use case in mind for this module, but not sure if it will give the results i expect. if someone feels up to it, could they post results of running this sample through it? i'm quite interested in hearing how more dense, distorted melodic things sound. here's the sample i'd use to test:

Lakinis Juice Infinite Loop mp3.mp3

Like ProggyBoog said it doesn’t process the sound on a running time basis, it uses small bits of it and then run it in the audio equivalent of a meat grinder. You still get tasty beef in the other end, but you have lost the shape of the original material for a lot more uniform content.

[xcc]

have any of the perfect circuit preorders shipped?

i'd be curious to know a general time-period for when they'll get here. i can't wait.

I have a preoder with PC, and emailed Andrii about a week ago to see about an ETA. He said he said "I don't know the exact estimates but it may be by the end of the month."

[Aleksey]

Awesome that this is hitting the stores. Although I was able to get one in the previous batch I'd prefer buying it from a US retailer at any given chance. I wish monome got back to doing that with Norns & stuff.

[snailed]

Looks like this should be hitting Perfect Circuit by the end of the month (I wrote to Blukac on IG and they very kindly responded as far as an ETA).

[Snufflepuff]

Thanks for the clips. Really dig that almost metallic like noise wash at about 30 seconds on Antares.

Thanks! That sound is the result of the averaging process of the Endless Processor. All the sound in those clips comes from just one oscillator, with very mild wave shaping, into two separate delay loops, thru a Modern Dual Frequency Shifter, and finally into the EP.

One oscillator patched thru a frequency shifter at higher shift rates gives that typical "ring modulator-like" sound, but the EP changes that into a much more organic sound, resembling metals and noises. I think experimenting with more processing of sounds going into the EP is something I need to do more of, as the results are sometimes unexpected.

This is intriguing -- can you elaborate on the process? Analog or special digital wave? How long are the delays? Thanks.

[Ras Thavas]

The frequency shifter is digital and the delays were from the 4MS Dual Looping delay. If memory serves they weren't terribly long delays, 6-12 seconds I believe. Just enough time to layer some varying timbres and pitches for the EP to catch. The oscillator is analog, a Sovage Engineering Le Dechu. It has some nice, slightly non-traditional waveshaping , but not really gnarly or overly complex, just variations on mostly familiar waves and a nice rounded PWM that can give some good movement and girth. I think 99% of the sound is coming from the freq shifter into the EP though.

It's actually not that unrelated to using a long diffuse reverb on a similar complex higher frequency sound, it tends to remove the sequential time and often results in some lovely flavors of noise and metal.

Thanks for the clips. Really dig that almost metallic like noise wash at about 30 seconds on Antares.

Thanks! That sound is the result of the averaging process of the Endless Processor. All the sound in those clips comes from just one oscillator, with very mild wave shaping, into two separate delay loops, thru a Modern Dual Frequency Shifter, and finally into the EP.

One oscillator patched thru a frequency shifter at higher shift rates gives that typical "ring modulator-like" sound, but the EP changes that into a much more organic sound, resembling metals and noises. I think experimenting with more processing of sounds going into the EP is something I need to do more of, as the results are sometimes unexpected.

This is intriguing -- can you elaborate on the process? Analog or special digital wave? How long are the delays? Thanks.

[Snufflepuff]

The frequency shifter is digital and the delays were from the 4MS Dual Looping delay. If memory serves they weren't terribly long delays, 6-12 seconds I believe. Just enough time to layer some varying timbres and pitches for the EP to catch. The oscillator is analog, a Sovage Engineering Le Dechu. It has some nice, slightly non-traditional waveshaping , but not really gnarly or overly complex, just variations on mostly familiar waves and a nice rounded PWM that can give some good movement and girth. I think 99% of the sound is coming from the freq shifter into the EP though.

It's actually not that unrelated to using a long diffuse reverb on a similar complex higher frequency sound, it tends to remove the sequential time and often results in some lovely flavors of noise and metal.

Thanks for the clips. Really dig that almost metallic like noise wash at about 30 seconds on Antares.

Thanks! That sound is the result of the averaging process of the Endless Processor. All the sound in those clips comes from just one oscillator, with very mild wave shaping, into two separate delay loops, thru a Modern Dual Frequency Shifter, and finally into the EP.

One oscillator patched thru a frequency shifter at higher shift rates gives that typical "ring modulator-like" sound, but the EP changes that into a much more organic sound, resembling metals and noises. I think experimenting with more processing of sounds going into the EP is something I need to do more of, as the results are sometimes unexpected.

This is intriguing -- can you elaborate on the process? Analog or special digital wave? How long are the delays? Thanks.

That's helpful, thanks. Are you varying pitch in the vibrato range (1-3%) or like semitones?