#Hologram microcosm vs infinite jets manuals

I love it and it integrates into my board and workflow perfectly for what I do. I've had an IJ for a few months now and bought it over a Microcosm. Which isn’t great for a live performance that you want to keep on the rails (if your band specializes in intentionally going off the rails, maybe that’s another matter). The IJ is the exact opposite of that, it’s whole point is to give you things that you don’t expect and that force you to change your approach. Things have to be expected within the bounds of the song. In that context I have to communicate with other musicians with my playing. That’s why it doesn’t work for me on a live playing board. I really use the IJ to break up my thinking about guitar. The whole point is showing you new sounds, not you imposing the sounds you want out of it. You have to go into it with an open mind to the sounds it wants to give. You can’t really go into it with a certain sound in mind and try to achieve that. You have to find inspiration in it and adapt to it, not the other way around. That is, they want to dial up one of their go to songs or riffs or whatever and the IJ make it sound amazing. The thing about it that I think puts a lot of people off is that they want it to fit in their playing. But an hour later and entire 9 layer song was written. I I’d no idea what was going to come down when I sat down. I wrote an entire song yesterday just based on these two pedals and a beat machine. Would never have it on my board, but it’s so inspiring at home. I recently got a Evil Pumpkin and it’s the same sort of thing. But it’s indispensable for sitting at home on a table. fortunately there’s a thriving and friendly community around their gear.For me, it’s a pedal that would never go on my board.

#Hologram microcosm vs infinite jets manuals

Also, Elektron’s manuals are not fun to read and annoyingly shallow – the important information is all there, but they really need more tutorials and workflow guidance, so expect to join a support forum and read a lot of third party tutorials, and expect this to be a long-term learning process. The only negative things I would say are that for storage it relies on the now somewhat antique compact flash cards – but they’re stupid cheap now so just buy a huge one and a couple spares and forget about it. It’s equally good at dialed-in precision and performance/improvisation/exploration. The learning curve is quite a bit steeper than the Hologram but there are many different ways to use it rather than needing to follow a particular workflow exactly, and I would say it is the ultimate in real-time sampling/audio mangling flexibility. If you like the capabilities of this device but not the form factor then I’d say save up for an Elektron Octatrack. The Microcosm is available to pre-order now for $449 USD.Īgreed. Choose between True Bypass Switching / Buffered Bypass with trails.“Hold” sampler function to freeze effects and patterns.16 User Preset slots for saving loops and settings.

Phrase Looper with many configuration options MIDI In/Out/Thru, clock synchronization.Expression Input, mappable to many controls.11 granular and looping effects with 44 preset variations.

Cascading microloops can be locked into tight tap-tempo synced rhythms, diffused into glacial ambient textures, woven into hypnotic drones, and much more.Īll loops, overdubs, and settings can be saved and recalled later using the pedal’s 16 user presets. Microcosm rearranges and reinterprets your sound in new and exciting ways using a variety of granular sampling, delay, and looping techniques. You can tweak the sound further using Microcosm’s built-in pitch modulation, stereo reverb (with 4 selectable modes) and resonant lowpass filter.

The effects let you slice, stretch, rearrange, and manipulate your audio in a variety of ways. The Microcosm offers 11 different effects and a looper that can capture up to 60 seconds of stereo audio. Hologram Electronics has introduced Microcosm, a new ‘effects toolkit for adventurous musicians’.