In the latest episode of Sonic Lab, David Ahlund joins host Nick Batt to look at the new Roland Eurorack effects modules.
The new modules include:
- Bitrazer – a modular effect, combining intense bit and sample rate crushing effects and control and flexibility.
- Demora – a high-resolution delay effect
- Scooper – a single-pass loop recorder with Scatter effect.
- Torcido – a distortion sound effect module
In addition to demonstrating the Roland Eurorack effects modules, Ahlund takes a look at the Configurator editor.
via Sonic State
I did not find these exciting in any way?
Real real bad
Here come the trolls……..
Now your preemptively defending Roland before anyone said anything all that bad ….you must be a Roland employee. Calling out trolls before anyone has done anything troll like is an act of being a troll itself
I’m glad you continue to find yourself to be the expert on what everyone’s opinion should be.
No, I just find criticism with no substance rather boring and troll-like. If you have a good criticism of what we know from the videos, by all means enlighten us, otherwise a troll is a troll is a……
Not true – I’ve offered criticism with plenty of substance and you’ve called me a troll in the past . I never leave criticism without substance, it seems you just get pleasure out of calling people trolls and you yourself don’t seem to leave much substance in your comments . Which is why I am correct in pointing out your calling people trolls is troll like in and of itself.
You’re funny. First of all, I don’t care enough to keep track of who might be offended by my comments and I fail to see much useful commentary in your post above. As for the first two posts that I called out as trolls, read them again and tell me they are not trolling.
These are looking amazing. I can’t believe how well thought out these are. The editor is so flexible. I’d love to see it paired with a nord modular like module.
Interesting reactions, in the flesh these have a lot of potential to be creative I think, shame they do draw so much power, but there are ways around this. I was impressed, perhaps the least useful to me would be the Torcido distortion, but thats the beauty of modular I guess – something for everyone?
Anyhow, looking forward to getting them in for a test.
I’m not to concerned with the power draw and they can run off adapters also.
Great concept marrying (Nord type modular programming) within each core module itself so you get far ore than meets the eye on any given module. I can already imagine quite a few applications for something like this within my current setup and a decent patch bay.
As usual the haters are going to hate but you get an awful lot of scope on offer here with a very unique take on exactly what a digital eurorack module can be. I’d be interested to see them develop the line further with other processing modules and devices that take this virtual modular approach married to a hardware framework approach.
Some very clever design ideas being showcased here I must confess.
I’d love to use these with my V-Synth and some 3rd party LFO’s, EG, Filter and Sequencer modules.
Well, compared with the system 1M, they have a reasonable amount of CV control. The Scooper looks really fun.
Someone please make a supercut of of David saying “absolutely.”
Unexpectedly deep. Software side a massive bonus – plenty of scope for continued development too
Well done Roland!
That said bit reduction and scatter make my teeth itch
Hmmm, interesting, but more interested in the analogue modules they’ll be releasing.
These look interesting; Especially the software editing side of them; seems to give a hell of a lot of flexibility. Couple of suggestions for the future for them, though; Might be nice to add a couple of multiplexer/expander modules; Maybe one with a bunch of CV inputs, one with a load of knobs. You could encode the multiplexed signals to send via the data jack (the headphone one he was using to load patches), or maybe USB, and tweak the firmware & software to pick up the new device as a bunch of extra CV/Gate IO. That’d expand the capabilities of these quite a lot, and shouldn’t be too hard for roland to implement.
Also, a hardware editor module might be a nice thing to have, too; I don’t know about anyone else, but I always find it’s nice to be able to ignore computers sometimes, and it’d be nice to be able to acess the full capabilities of the module without one. Smallish module with a graphic lcd/oled display, a rotary encoder, a few buttons and an SD card slot should do the trick.
Scooper is a must buy for me, but I also like the scatter function on most of the Aira series.
………if only they sounded good.
These are the same idea as the Audio Damage modules – but with more real estate for knobs.
Not sure what Debolik is thinking, because delay, looping and bitcrushing are all arguably better fits for digital modules vs analog. An exception would be if you wanted old-school lo-fi delay.
if they do a space echo i’m in
When the demo played and white noise was added , I thought , that could ave been done on my Jp 8080 for example or on any synth I have. Bit crunching sounds like bit crunching and does not do a lot for me, although Daft punk used it well. It is like Time stretch in the early 90’s , or BIG gated sanres in the eighties, some effects are really no big deal and can be made so easily on any cheapo effects unit.
(I have five rack effects) I didn’t rate the moog effects either really , I didn’t see anything juicy or funkey in them. I use a Strymon big Sky (great machine) Also a Line six echo pro. Both these machine have great great sounds and they jump out at you sonically. I did not get any sense of excitement from these roland products. I bought a cheap zoom pedal recently with Wah’s on it , filters etc. 70 quid , programmable and ten times more freaky sonically!
Pretty cool. That filter module could add balls to a lot of otherwise boring synths, or a 80s casio.
The presets-via-audio-signal seems very handy. Perhaps in the next iteration they can add a tiny amount of non-volatile ram so that you could record and store presets directly on the device. Hold a button and turn a knob to go through them. You could store quite a lot on the equivalent of a 256mb SD card.