2026 playlist(s)

[dubkitty]

but the big drawback is no Bloom patches like the MV II.

[echorec]

Native Audio has been retooling their line, and they've just announced a stereo looper with reverse. $299 (get 15% off, if you sign up for their newsletter. code should take 5 minutes to arrive)

https://www.nativeaudio.com/shop/p/pattern-keeper (info, sound clips)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QejLgZg2U_g (designer intro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62fCv2 ... 4ga2VlcGVy (Emily's walk-through)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeVGgBx ... 4ga2VlcGVy (Boring Gear Reviews)

[echorec]

A new one for the trem-verb showdown?

https://sourceaudio.net/products/pathwa ... G5NA8ZMrSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn368EtwpQk (via Source Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ahGDADzxWw (Nobes Music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr9zO7mnfVY (ambienttrash)

[dubkitty]

i didn't particularly care for the reverbs on these demos, finding them a bit artificial. the Pedal Zone demo sounds much better and makes me more interested. the lack of squarewave Vox-style tremolo is a big miss, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAyFDhIZE2Y

[dubkitty]

the level of control on the Pattern Keeper is really interesting. for me to use it i'd have to totally rethink how i use loopers. hopefully it'd be better than my Rickenbacker 360, a lovely instrument that needed a different style of playing to bring out its best while i wasn't willing to revamp my entire approach which worked on everything else. even though i use the reverse and half-speed options on the loopers i have, it's hard for me to think of a looper as a signal processor rather than a tiny tape recorder.