2025 2 LYFE ::FINGERS WAGGIN'::

[dubkitty]

the Stylophone CPM-DF8 filter unit finally dropped. at $300 i can’t afford it until i pay shit off, but it’s a beastly little thing. i’m dying to run my guitar through it. and obviously my Stylophone Drone Synth wants to have its babies.

https://youtu.be/jc3DIadd0j0?si=EEo4piN2kT55N9fX

[echorec]

The description is intriguing, as I can't recall any delay+verb boxes that added a vowel filter, but I need to hear more. The light show and the aesthetics are certainly sleek though.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ydRSSxoSk (designer video intro)

https://mentha.works/store/monk-echo/?v=0b3b97fa6688

special pre-order price [$380] — limited to the first 500 units
shipping february 2026

manual or automatic responsive vowel selection
male, female and children voice characters
infinite reverb decay and delay repeats
granular reverb pitch shifting
reverse delay
static or responsive modulation
distortion – from mild to brutal
degradation – musical artefacts and signal dropouts

Umm...what?

Mentha Works is an independent music technology studio/workshop founded by musicians and sound designers Toms Lazdovskis and Matiss Tazans. After helping build and shape one of the most inventive brands in the industry — Gamechanger Audio – we are now dedicated to designing our own line of expressive, attention-to-design instruments for pedalboard and desktop that celebrates both classic values and a fresh approach.

We have assembled a team of some of the top talent from across Europe, with experience at companies such as Neural DSP, Darkglass and Marshall.

[dubkitty]

super Miku Stomp?

[Tall Walls]

You can tell they used to be with Gamechanger because they made a demo that doesn't demonstrate shit. The pedal seems kind of interesting, but I couldn't hear enough of the vocalesque effect to be able to tell if it's something I could work with. I imagine the "male, female and children voice characters" thing is kind of like the "Gender" knob on the EHX vocoder.

[echorec]

super Miku Stomp?

Thought about that, too. ---Could you take the most useless and one-dimensional novelty devices and blend them with ubiquitous effects for something new and unexpected?

You can tell they used to be with Gamechanger because they made a demo that doesn't demonstrate shit. The pedal seems kind of interesting, but I couldn't hear enough of the vocalesque effect to be able to tell if it's something I could work with. I imagine the "male, female and children voice characters" thing is kind of like the "Gender" knob on the EHX vocoder.

Maybe they got high and watched the TE choir module videos. They thought, "What if we turned these wooden dolls into guitar pedals?"

The light grid from the Monk Echo is similar to the speaker opening on the TE Miki, and they both incorporate machine-generated choral sounds.

[Tall Walls]

Maybe they got high and watched the TE choir module videos. They thought, "What if we turned these wooden dolls into guitar pedals?"

The light grid from the Monk Echo is similar to the speaker opening on the TE Miki, and they both incorporate machine-generated choral sounds.

The "monk echo" name makes me think they were inspired by the Delay Lama VST http://www.audionerdz.nl/index2.htm

[dubkitty]

could be interesting, but that demo was utterly useless.

[le lambin]

What a mish mash! It really does look like a teenage engineering pedal. I’m all for more formant filters in pedals though. And assignable macros for digital pedals should be a thing, and they got a big ol macro knob so good on them for that.

I’m now going to recreate this in ableton for the low price of $0.

[echorec]

Here's three new DBA offerings. They're $250 each, but will be discounted in your cart.

Thee Treble Overload revives the coveted treble boost circuit from the infamous limited-edition pedal, Thee Fuzz Warr Overload - this time packed with extra features and unleashed as its own weapon.

The Moonbeam is a 1-6 stage phaser. (each stage option has its own unique LED color, so you get a corresponding light show)

The Dream Station is a gritty reverb+delay.

https://deathbyaudio.com/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ehy6i3ipG4c (shorts, audio-only)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDIGuxDmEGI (Will It Shoegaze? // Death By Audio - Destroyer Series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38sFsiMAN4 (all 3 pedals at Pedalgaze, isolated and combined)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCra75PbWFk (Moonbeam + Dream Station via Duskmos)

[oldangelmidnight]

Speaking of Gamechanger, they don't even bother making a useless demo with this one:
https://gamechangeraudio.com/shop/recoder-pedal/

[dubkitty]

i confess to being entirely confuzzled by this product page. so this basically chews up your micro-loops?

[echorec]

Speaking of Gamechanger, they don't even bother making a useless demo with this one:

I'm intrigued by it, but two spectral plugins came out last month...for less money and they offer downloadable demos.

Transfigure isn't a part of the holiday sale, so you'd need to wait a couple of months for a discount. (maybe 40% off) That one is nuts---it's a spectral effect / resynthesizer. It does lots of spooky carnival sounds---it will turn basic sounds or single notes into wayward, arpeggiating soundscapes. I've used that one on percussion and keys. That is one of the deepest spectral tools I've tried---it really does a lot of exotic mangling/glitch stuff. It can do ambient/spacey stuff, too, but I've only had an hour or so with it.

https://sugar-bytes.de/transfigure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6U9uvrUyfc (teaser clip with extreme settings)



I've enjoyed my other Lese purchases, but haven't had time to test this one yet.

https://lese.io/plugin/smear/ (BLACK40 for discount)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wELCfCANNc (audio, no talking)

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Is "spectral" the new "granular"?

(I mean, I'm basically on board with that, so...)

[echorec]

Last chance to get a Part Garden from MAE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYnnpwFh3aw

https://maskaudioelectronics.com/collec ... 8410302641

[BitchPudding]

I’m now going to recreate this in ableton for the low price of $0.

I LOL'd