Obviously I have plenty of Reverb pedals already - so the Context is not necessarily to[ of my priorities list - but it’s still a very cool edition. Of these slimline medium-enclosure editions the Particle still comes first for me - followed by the Bitmap Bitcrusher, Tensor, Raster and then Context. Where each of those is a bona fide leader in its respective genre - and particular at its size of enclosure. The Particle was my second fully stand-alone Granular Delay after the Montreal Assembly Ct5 - and I definitely want each the remaining ones here. I believe the Particle Granular Delay and Tensor Tape Effects / Time-Stretcher are the two perennial bestsellers here. Generally though - all of these have significant merits - that size of enclosure is just ingenious - sitting half-way between Compact and BB-enclosure status. If I recall properly - that feature was only possible on the Particle with a later firmware update. These pedals feature smart Stereo In/Out via TRS Y-Splitter Cable - which isn’t necessarily ideal for me - but very doable. While each of these pedals has a quite individual control topology. I observe that only 3 of the 5 pedals have the same type of 4 onboard presets - the Bitmap, Particle, and now Raster. One thing that attracted me to the Particle - besides its enhanced feature set - was the inclusion of 4 onboard presets. In fact I should really own more - while the only one I’ve thus far acquired has been the V2 Particle Granular Delay.Īt this year’s virtual Winter NAMM Red Panda introduced their new and improved Bitmap Bitcrusher - which is fantastic and category-leading, and this week for Summer NAMM they have updated their remaining Raster Digital Delay to V2 format. I will say the pitch shifting is better than let's say the ones that are in the specular tempus but slightly worse than the ones in the nemesis delay.I’m a huge fan of Red Panda’s output - I love the V2 form-factor and extended feature sets of its 5 core pedals.
#RED PANDA RASTER DEMO FULL#
Really nice ! Anyway I will be working on a full demo soon as I really like it.
#RED PANDA RASTER DEMO UPDATE#
All you do is power it up in update mode, plug it into a computer and drag and drop the firmware file to the drive that it makes. Firmware updating is also some of the nicest ever on a pedal. The foot switches are also user replaceable just like on strymon pedals without soldering. The knobs are a bit hard to deal with because of spacing though. The switches and pots all feel nice and are all metal shafts. As the hardware goes, it’s super robust and the color / finish is just sublime in person (like all the recent red panda offerings).
#RED PANDA RASTER DEMO ANDROID#
Though in theory I think an android phone should be able to run the editor as I think chrome on android supports web midi. At least you can use a web based pc/mac editor.
The interface is kind of hard to deal with all the alt functions at first but you get the hang of it. I also need to mention that the stereo controls are really powerful, you can set ratios for left vs right even in the crossfeed ping pong mode. I prefer the one time thing or very low feedback settings in the cascaded mode. The other thing is you can either place the pitch shifter inside or outside of the feedback loop so you can get a one time shift or cascading pitch shifting. Reverse delay works pretty good as well and is a trip when you combine it with pitch shifting. The modulation section is extremely deep in terms of waveforms and what you can assign things to so even if you don’t plan on using shifting it makes a very nice modulated stereo delay. Using the shift portion as a detune also makes a lush modulated sounding delay without even touching the modulation section. In ping pong it does this cool cross feedback thing and gives almost a 2 step arpeggio thing going.
I like using it in stereo pitch mode where the left side is set to a 5th up and I have the right as a full octave up. The pitch shifting is not the best I have heard in a delay but is charming in it’s own way. I will say most of the awesomeness besides pitch shifting comes from running it in ping pong stereo. I did however mostly use it last night on my wavestate using acoustic instrument samples from things like harp / piano / koto / guitar so I feel the pedal is great for just about any instrument.
I play synths so this will be in regards to using it on a synth.
I have wanted this since it was announced and actually sold my context v2 (which in the end I did not care for) to buy this.
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