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 will 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 sound
is much different than most modern day pitch shifting devices. It was
imagineered to be wild and out of control and slightly imperfect while
still tracking up and down the guitar neck without glitching out. A cold
digital beast made to pretend it has feelings. It will do basic
polyphonic harmonies from a 4th down through a 3rd up and every atonal
pitch in between. You may add in an accompanying
octave to the harmony by bringing up the Secondary function control. You
can take it way beyond and open up your third eye by bringing in the
Magic. The Magic is the heart of the Rainbow Machine. In conjunction
with the Tracking control, the Magic creates wild pitch take offs and
descend’s, chaos chorusing, shrieks, pixie trails and wealth of other
general mayhem inducing noises. The pitch can be controled by an
external expression pedal for extra fun! The Rainbow Machine can be used
on bass, keys, vocals or anything else you can dream up!
Power
A standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel, no battery option.
Expression Pedal
We recommend the Moog Expression pedal for the Rainbow Machine and can not gaurantee that any others will work.
