Hologram Microcosm x Elektron Digitone - An Evolving Mosaic of Sound

Описание: The Hologram Microcosm could be a difficult effects unit to characterize because most descriptions I can think of don't do it justice, nevertheless, here goes:

The Microcosm is a pedal which chops up your sounds in a number of different ways. Your chopped up sounds are then (depending on which of the 44 different modes you've chosen) variously recontextualized, pitch shifted, time smeared, stretched or bit-crushed, and then can be recombined with the original signal by way of a gorgeous sounding reverb and a master low-pass filter.

The lovely thing about Microcosm is that no matter how crazily it chops things up, it's still related to your original input. Add to that the ability to synchronize to MIDI clock it provides a great way to add musically relevant textures to whatever you put through it.

Here I'm using mode "D" the Mosaic algorithm, which chops up the sounds coming from the Digitone into tempo-sync'd "micro-loops" and mixes them back in playing back in half, normal, double and quadruple-time. Throughout the performance I'm turning up the "Activity" and "Repeat" controls, which act together to increase the density and complexity of the micro-loops. By the end of the video, I've also maxed out the "Mix" control, so that you're just hearing what Microcosm is doing (and I think what it is doing is rather lovely).

Transparency notice: The Microcosm was kindly provided to me by Hologram Electronics, but they have not had (nor have they requested) any input on the content I create with it.

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