EarthQuaker Devices Rainbow Machine V2 Modulation Effect Pedal

Polyphonic Pitch Shifting with Flexi-Switch Item ID: EQDRAINV2USA

Highlights

  • Pitch adjusts the frequency of the polyphonic pitch-warped harmony from a fourth below your input, to a third above, and every atonal pitch in-between.
  • Primary adjusts the volume of the polyphonic harmony.
  • Tracking adjusts the lag time between the wet and dry signals.
  • Tone rolls off some treble for a darker, “vintage” sound.
  • Secondary adds an octave of the Primary harmony.
  • Magic This is a regeneration control that creates aliasing (among other things) by feeding the Primary and Secondary signals back on themselves and each other, and a bunch of other stuff no one understands.
Description

Welcome to the Rainbow Machine, in all its synthetic glory! This one is for experimenters, adventurists, and noisemakers. Totally not for purists and/or tone hounds. There are no “natural sounds” that come from this box. It takes modern DSP and uses it as a tool of future past to create real-time pitch shifting using digital oscillators.

The Rainbow Machine is built around a DSP pitch warping engine that’s designed to be slightly imperfect; colored with digital remnants of the cosmic dust we’ve picked up across the multiverse. That is to say it’s a cold digital beast made to pretend it has feelings.

Videos

4 videos

Specs

Type
Modulation - Octave
Power Supply
9 Volt DC 2.1mm negative center
True Bypass/Buffer
Yes
Ins - Outs
1 In - 1 Out
Stereo/Mono
Mono
Expression Out
Yes
Analog/Digital
Digital
Battery Connection
None