EDIT 04.01.2012:
Everybody who pre-order a Little deFormer will get a choice between the "standard model" and a special limited edition model with wooden sides and bigger step-buttons.
The box and buttons for the Little deFormer special edition. CLICK on the picture to enlarge.
Dear friends. Gotharmusic needs your help.
Engineering of our newest product the "Little deFormer", has taken much longer time than expected, and we are now very close to run completely out of cash. Therefore we ask for your help, to raise funds for finishing this product. Everybody who donates an amount, will of course get this amount in discount, if ordering a Little deFormer, when it is finished, and get their name mentioned under "Thanks to" in the user manual. Anybody who donates EUR 900,- will get a Little deFormer, immediately when it is ready.
If you would like to sponsor this product, but have other terms and conditions, please write an email to: info@gotharman.dk , and we will discuss it.
The original plan was, that the Little deFormer should have been ready for release around December 2011, but because of some technical difficulties, this project has been delayed. I now expect it to be ready around march/april 2012, if there are funds enough to finish it.
And please friends, spread this word to anybody.
Flemming, GotharMusic, december 2011.
Collected now: EUR 2160,-
Needed to start production: EUR 4500,-
Terms of Little deFormer pre-ordering: Everybody who pre-orders a Little deFormer will get one. If I have not suceeded to raise enough money for starting up a real production, when pre-ordering closes on 15. march 2012, these deFormers will be completely handbuild, and not silkscreened, but labelled.
If I raise enough money to start up a production, the frontplates will be made by a factory, and be silkscreened. The electronics will still be handmade by me (Gotharman).
VIDEO'S
The Granulator effect:
Delay used as loop recorder:
The Reverb effect:
Sample section, filters and Obscembler effect:
How to record a sample:
The Delay effect:
The picture shows a prototype. The design will probably be changed.
The new "Little deFormer" preliminary specs:
Sampling section
-Will come loaded with samplings of other Gotharman machines
-Non-volatile internal storage of 100 minutes of samplings / max 999.
-When samplings are recorded, they can be selected just like waveforms on a synth - NO loading times!
-16 samplings can be assigned to the step knobs for each preset (512 presets)
-4 note polyphonic
-Each sampling has its own filter - All of the filter types from deMOON plus some new odd ones, with added filter shape adjustment and positive/negative mix
-Samples start and end points can be adjusted in realtime
-Non-destructive Auto-Chop - After auto-chop is performed, it is possible to adjust, add or delete chop-points
Effects section
-Audio can be saved together with an effect preset, for easy recall of THAT perfect moment!
-Gotharman's granulator with zero-point detection and 2 granulating tracks.
-Gotharman's Variator effect. A granular effect that will create variations of the audio input.
-TimeStretch - Grainy realtime timestretching of any input signal.
-Delays with some new odd parameters like "delay box depth" and "beam" and "Freeze". When a delay is frozen, it's audio contents can be saved as a sampling.
-Reverb - Not a clean convolution one, but a FAT synthesized reverb with many sound possibilities
-Bit manipulation effects like "bit reduction" (of course) and a newly designed Gotharman effect "Obscembler" -a bit weird.
-Various distortion effects
-Glitch Shifter - It is definately not a pitchshifter, so it MUST be a.....
-Gotharman's PitchShaper - From my eurorack module with the same name.
-Gotharman's MIDI triggered compressor
-Filterbank with some newly engineered filter types, filter shape adjustment and both positive and negative mix
-Loop recorder with 8 tracks
Sequencer section
-The engineering of this has not started yet, but it will probably be a 32-track step sequencer.
Note Randomizer
-Of course....
Presets
-512 - All user re-writable. Stored in FLASH RAM, so like all other Gotharman products, no battery back-up is needed.
-When an effect preset is saved, and "Freeze" is on, audio is saved together with the preset.
Connections
-MIDI: In and out
-Audio: 2 x Mono in, stereo out. A/D and D/A 24 bit, 44.1 KHz, internal processing 40 bit, sample resolution 16 bit.
Price
-Estimated EUR 900,-
The "old" deFormer:
Click on the pictures to enlarge
It's a granular effects processor. It's a polyphonic filterbank synthesizer. It's a MIDI note randomizer. It's an analogue style 2-track MIDI sequencer. It's the first machine in the world (I think), that can do REALTIME TIMESTRETCH ON A LIVE INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL. Add to this a granulator that cut's the input audio signal up in fragments, and lets you move these fragments around with the 16 step pots to rearrange beats and others in realtime. Use the two fully programmable filterbanks to tweak the sound further. Or create complete synth-patches by combining the internal polyphonic oscillator section with one or both of the filterbanks. Create two note and controller sequences and run them thru the note randomizer to create enddless non-mechanical variations. Store your arrangement in one of the 512 program locations for instant recall. That's the Deformer!
It has 24-bit input's and output's and 40-bit/58 KHz internal processing.
THE GRANULAR EFFECTS PROCESSOR
The granular effects processor makes it possible to realtime timestretch a live input audio signal.
It can create strange variations of a beat by cutting the input up in fragments, and let the user rearrange these.
Hear the Granulator effect by clicking here.
The compressor adds smack to the beat. Usually it is trigged by the incoming audio signal, and by adjusting a threshold, but it can also be trigged by MIDI and sequencer note-on's. MIDI channel and note range are adjustable.
With four different types of distortion, this machine for sure can destroy the sound to your liking.
Hear 2 distorted internal synth sounds
Hear a beat getting distorted.
If you don't need to cut anything up, you can switch the granulator to stereo delay mode. The delay time are adjustable from very, very short up to around 3 seconds. In the following soundclip, the delay time is set to very short.
Hear a beat running thru a very short delay. The mix knob are tweaked.
THE POLYPHONIC FILTERBANK SYNTHESIZER
The synthesizer section of the deformer consist of a polyphonic oscillator section and 2 filterbanks with each 4 filters. It is possible to route the oscillator section thru one or both of the filterbanks, and it is possible to route the 2 audio inputs thru the filterbanks too. It is also possible to route filterbank 1 into filterbank 2, in case you should need 2 filterbanks in serial connection. The synthesizer section can, of course, be routed thru the effects section.
The oscillator section and the 2 filterbanks each has their own 2 LFO's and 1 envelope. The filterbanks also has a randomgenerator, that can be trigged from one of the LFO's or by MIDI or sequencer note-on's. The oscillators can modulate themselves and the filterbanks. MIDI controllers and velocity can also be selected as modulators.
The oscillators has triangle, sawtooth, square, pulse and noise waveforms. With one knob, you can continously and smoothly morph thru these waves. This morph function can be modulated by any of the sources. All waveforms can be pulsewidth and pitch modulated, even by themselves.
Each filterbank consist of 4 indepenently controllable and fully programable resonant filters. Each filter has selectable mode (BPF, LPF, HPF), adjustable cutoff frequency, output level and steep (resonance). They each have 2 sets of cutoff's and output level's. Morphing between these to sets are possible with any modulation source. There are also a common cutoff, which affects all 4 filters, and which can be modulated.
Listen to some sounds created with the internal synth section:
THE NOTE RANDOMIZER
The note randomizer can treat incoming MIDI note on and off's and notes generated by the internal sequencer. When it recieves note data, it takes a look at a user adjustable probability parameter, and randomly decides if it will play that note or not. If it decides to play the note, it will have a look at a user adjustable random velocity parameter, and if this is higher than zero, it will randomize the note velocity value with the adjusted amount. The randomized notes can then be outputted to the MIDI out and to the internal synth. This effect is very useful for creating variations in repeating patterns. The Deformer has 4 note random channels, each with adjustable MIDI channel and key range.
Listen to some examples:
A one-bar beat running thru the note randomizer
A one bar internal synth pattern note randomized
THE ANALOGUE-STYLE STEP SEQUENCER
The build-in sequencer are analogue-style, which means, that you are creating music by turning the 16 step-knobs, not by playing notes on a keyboard. Each knob represents one step in the sequence. Some very interesting results can come out of this.
It has 2 tracks which can be up to 32 steps in length. The length are independently adjustable for each track. Each track has a note sub-track, a velocity sub-track and a controller sub-track. Each step can be on or off or in hold mode (it holds the previously played note). The sequencer can be gated, reset, transposed and trigged by incoming midi-notes and it syncs to and puts out midi-clock.
Listen to some sequencer/internal synth patterns
Download deFormer User Manual:
Price and ordering:
THE DEFORMER'S INTERNAL FLOW:
