Quatschmacher

Well this is a proud moment to finally receive an actual production model of something I’ve been instrumental in co-designing and getting out into the world!

Not really for everything it does. It’s also a new custom design so there’s extra costs involved there. And stuff is always more expensive at launch. Wasn’t EQ2 (another custom design) around £299 at launch?

https://www.andertons.co.uk/source-audio-artifakt-lofi-elements--modulatio-reverb-bit-reduction-and-filter-pedal/?search_query=Artifakt £349

Well this has made my day.

Artifakt’s envelope is plenty responsive too. A fairer test would have been to record a clean audio signal and use the same recording to trigger each pedal; there’s no guarantee of my playing each clip with exactly the same dynamics.

Thanks for being the first to venture a guess. Curious as to what pushed you to that choice; do tell. That recording was done before I better matched the EQ, as it was non-functional at that point. I think they are even closer now. The only difference was a slight difference in envelope response at different dynamics, mostly in the decay time. Sadly I don’t have the MuTron any more to do a new more accurate comparison.

Indeed it is. I only just came across it myself as I’m on the Jazz Cafe mailing list and she’s playing there this year and it sounded interesting. Am checking out the album too.

I posted this elsewhere a while ago but couldn't say what it was. Here's Artifakt and Mutron Microtron IV side by side; can you tell which is which? Audio-822.mp3

I’m not sure now, but maybe not. I’ve never owned a Data Corrupter, only played one in a shop. Most of my presets are prefixed with “QM” except some of my early ones (or ones where another user has cheekily posted mine as their own).

Sorry, wrong thread, video removed.

Copying this from a TB post I made earlier: I think this may be the best thing SA has made to date, this is coming from someone who loves the C4 very much. (I ordered that pedal as soon as it was announced and spent a lot of time getting right inside it.) One thing I really like about the new pedal is the level of hands-on control, which, for me, recaptures the immediacy of the Soundblox 2 series; I loved those and the Manta is what got me into Source Audio pedals in the first place. With the move to One Series, lots of deeper possibilities opened up via the editor software, but at the expense of a loss of some of the immediacy and stand-alone nature of the SB2 series. This new pedal is a kind of marriage between the two ways of interacting: there’s all the depth and tweakability of the One Series pedals, but you can set up or use a few presets (hell, even just a single preset) that have so much variation possible via the panel controls alone that you’d never need to dig into the editor if you didn’t want to. However, if you do want to explore, there’s a whole universe of sound in there, and this pedal invites exploration.

I’m not into glitch/lo-fi at all but I love this and it’s staying for everything else it does. Worth it just for the lowpass filter on its own.

The middle knob is much like the toggle switch on the other pedals: it’s populated with some well thought-out starting points which you can then tweak and save to one of the preset slots. However, last time I tried, those 7 bases are fully replaceable too so you can design your own starting points too. Time-based effects are only one at a time, so delay or chorus or reverb. The other stuff is mostly available together. There is something to do with the glitch section that has a minor limitation, but I forget what that is exactly. And yes, all controls are fully assignable to be whatever you want. There are two soft control sections, each of which allows a knob or footswitch (and hopefully in an update the bandwidth toggle switch too) to control up to three different parameters with customisable ranges (both in parameter values and to which portion of the knob travel it is assigned). It’s so powerful. Definitely wish the C4 had some of this ability. Hopefully an updated/revised version will bring some of this innovation in.

There’s a basic but useable compressor in here. The “clean” clip I posted used it.

I haven't yet tried it on keys but I'm sure it'll be great.

Oh yeah, if you haven't guessed from clip 1, this is what replaced my Mutron!

Oh and the vinyl noise was my idea.

It does so much for bass. It's way deeper than its name suggests.

Introducing ARTIFAKT - Lo-Fi Elements: https://www.sourceaudio.net/gear-artifakt-lofi-elements.html Watch your ears on clip 12! QM Artifakt clip 1.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 2.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 3.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 4.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 5.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 6.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 7.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 8.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 9.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 10.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 11.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 12.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 13.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 14.mp3 QM Artifakt clip 15.mp3