AARP v2 - Fully featured pitch shifter/ 16 step arpeggiator

[Teej212]

I guess its time to start getting the details with this one down on paper. The new AARP is an extremely functional and fully featured polyphonic pitch shifter and arpeggiator.

Features -
- 16 Steps, selectable from 1-16
- +/-1 octave
- Multiple directional modes - forwards, backwards, ping pong, and random
- Mix and Feedback controls
- Portamento/glide/glissando/slide/whatever you want to call it
- Tap tempo - improved over the previous version, averages up to 10 taps for increased accuracy
- Multipliers - 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 3/2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Actually some feedback here would be nice, not sure what multipliers/dividers you guys like)
- Tempo can also be incrementally increased by 1 for fine tuning
- Freeze sequence, push switch to advance - the tap tempo switch has a secondary function, hold for 200ms to pause the sequence, press to advance sequence by one, hold again to automate sequence again.
- 4 presets - wish I could do more, but the microcontroller's eeprom only had enough bytes to store all the parameters of four presets
- Quantization to Major, Minor, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, Chromatic scales as well as the option for no quantization
- clock sync output
- 1590 BBM enclosure

to fit all this in the enclosure I wanted to fit it in, I had to make a few unorthodox (to the pedal world at least) choices . Rotary Encoders instead of potentiometers, I dont like the feel of them as much but it was the only way I could figure out how to fit 27 parameters onto four knobs. Also an LCD screen was necessary to indicate what controls were assigned to which knob on each menu page. Overall I think it is extremely intuitive despite having to navigate a menu, I am looking forward to hearing some feedback on this because I think it may be a good thing to incorporate into future products.

Hoping for December or January sales

Price will be around $275

[$harkToootth]

Oh my...

[cantremember]

[Jwar]

Dude, that thing is sick as fuck.

[damnableman]

FULLY FEATURED

[Seance]

Seen a few video clips and this is stupendously FULLY FEATURED.

[AlexGlassLungs]

Stoked on this!!!!

[molokaio]

Holyshiat!!!! Killer update man. Even just looking at the startup screan on Instagram got me excited

[AlexGlassLungs]

How can I get a huge alert that you’re taking orders so I don’t miss it? I can’t fuck this one up!

[Teej212]

Mailing list is the best bet. Don’t hold your breath, a bit more work to be done!

[thesneakup]

In this time of new products and demos, wouldn't it be cool to get another peek at the v2 doin' what it does? And maybe even some updated release info? I think it would!

[Teej212]

ah yes i suppose I should give an update.

so again its undergoing a major redesign using a new hardware platform. this will allow for a lot more features. the main one that I've implemented is per step parameters - mix, glide, fbk, multiplier.

working on a few other features that havent been seen in any product (as far as I know) so i'll keep those under wraps for now. starting to think of this more as a sequence machine rather than an arpeggiator.

[damnableman]

xo

[thesneakup]

starting to think of this more as a sequence machine rather than an arpeggiator.

That sounds really good, like something I've hoped other things would do that eventually fell short or went somewhere simpler.

I check The Tank whenever I visit just in case this thread moves. Onward and outward!

[molokaio]

you mean it will also sent out cv? That'd be killer.
A korg sq1 on steroids!