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Gotharman's Little deFormer

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NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Granular workstation with sampler, synth, effects processor and sequencer

Gotharman's Little deFormer combines a granular effects processor with special effects like TimeStretcher, Step-Granulator and PitchShaper and more usual effects like Reverb, delay, distortion, compressor, filters and bit manipulation, with some special parameters, with a 100 minutes sampler, a synth and a step sequencer. A MIDI Note Randomizer is also included.

Both the samplings and external gear, connected to it's 2 audio input can be effected. A complete list of effects can be found in the specs section below. Watch and hear Little deFormer in action, in the video's section. I have planned to use the Little deFormer as a platform for engineering new effects, so additional effects will be added now and then, which will be available as free downloads on this site. These updates will be available as MIDI sysex files in".syx" format, and you will need a program like Midi-Ox to download these to Little deFormer.

The 4-note polyphonic sampler makes it possible to record your own samplings directly from the 2 audio inputs, or re-sample it's audio output. Samplings are stored in FLASH RAM for instant recall, without any loading times. Up to 100 minutes/999 samplings can be kept. Start and end points can be changed in realtime and modulated, and it also has functions like AutoChop, for a conveniant and easy way to cut up long samplings. Each sampling has it's own Phaze effect and filter with LPF, LFP2, BPF, BPF8, HPF, ADD, BEF, BASS, LO-FI and SHAPER modes, and a filter mix parameter. It is also possible to adjust the filter response, to create filter types, that have never been heard before. The Little deFormer comes loaded with samplings of other Gotharman gear. Instead of samplings, it is also possible to use Little deFormers build-in oscillators for sound generation. They can morph from sinewave to triangle to sawtooth to squarewave to noise. Pulsewidth modulation is possible on all waveforms.

The Little deFormer comes with an expansion port. Right now, only an analogue expansion box, that adds CV inputs and trigger inputs/outputs are available, but it is my plan, to add more expansions later.

Make sure to check out the AnaX - Analog Expander for Little deFormer too

Little deFormer specs:

Sampling section

-Will come loaded with samplings of other Gotharman machines - See list below!

-Non-volatile internal storage of 100 minutes of samplings / max 999.

-Maximum possible sample time for one sampling is 100 minutes.

-When samplings are recorded, they can be selected just like waveforms on a synth - NO loading times!

-16 samplings can be assigned to the step buttons for each preset (512 presets)

-Build-in Oscillators can be selected per step button instead of a sampling. These can morph from sine to triangle to saw to square to noise, and all waves can be pulsewidth modulated.

-4 note polyphonic

-Each sampling has its own filter - All of the filter types from deMOON plus some new odd ones, with added filter shape adjustment and positive/negative mix

-Samples start and end points can be adjusted in realtime and modulated

-Non-destructive Auto-Chop - After auto-chop is performed, it is possible to adjust, add or delete chop-points

-Resampling with effects

-Quick Record mode lets you instantly record a sampling, whenever you want, just by pressing the "Exit" and "Freeze" buttons at the same time.

Effects section

-Both sample/oscillator voices and external audio sources connected the audio inputs can be processed through the effects.

-Sample/oscillator voices and audio inputs can be assigned to one of four effect busses. Each effect are assigned to a bus.

-Audio can be saved together with an effect preset, for easy recall of THAT perfect moment!

-Gotharman's granulator with zero-point detection and 2 granulating tracks.

-Gotharman's Variator effect. A granular effect that will create variations of the audio input.

-Gotharman's Abstruct0 effect. A triple random granular effect.

-TimeStretch - Grainy realtime timestretching of any input signal.

-Delays with some new odd parameters like "delay box depth" and "beam" and "Freeze". When a delay is frozen, it's audio contents can be saved as a sampling.

-Reverb - Not a clean convolution one, but a FAT synthesized reverb with many sound possibilities

-Bit manipulation effects like "bit reduction" (of course) and a newly designed Gotharman effect "Obscembler" -a bit weird.

-Various distortion effects

-Glitch Shifter - It is definately not a pitchshifter, so it MUST be a.....

-Gotharman's PitchShaper - From my eurorack module with the same name, with some new added parameters, plus a new one-input variation.

-Gotharman's MIDI triggered compressor

-Filterbank with some newly engineered filter types, filter shape adjustment and both positive and negative mix

Sequencer section

-32 track, 32 step TR-style step sequencer

-4 controller tracks - Assignable to most parameters

-Able to control both the internal samplings as well as external MIDI gear

-Control tracks can be linked directly to note step tracks, for melodic playback

Note Randomizer

-4 channel randomizer attached to the step sequencer

-Each channel has: Note-on probability, velocity and time parameters.

Modulation

-10 LFO's with morphing between waveforms: Triangle, saw, square, pulse, unlinear high-frequency waves and random. LFO's rate, wave and mod amount can be modulated. The LFO's can also be key-synced, and they can loop or only run one time.

-16 voice trigged random modulators - One for each sampling/oscillator.

-4 Sequencer tracks.

-8 knobs.

-MIDI CC's.

-Velocity.

-Modulation matrix with 32 sources and destinations at a time. Allmost all parameters can be a destination.

Presets

-512 - All user re-writable. Stored in FLASH RAM, so like all other Gotharman products, no battery back-up is needed.

-When an effect preset is saved, and "Freeze" is on, audio is saved together with the preset.

MIDI

-OS can be updated via MIDI. I have planned to use the Little deFormer as my platform for engineering new effects. These will be available as updates.

-Receive and transmits note on/off messages for triggering of samplings and grains.

-Most parameters can be assigned to MIDI CC's.

-Receives, tranmits and re-transmit MIDI clock.

Connections

-MIDI: In and out

-Audio: 2 x Mono in, stereo out. A/D and D/A 24 bit, 44.1 KHz, internal processing 40 bit, sample resolution 16 bit.

-Expansion: For connecting tha AnaX analog expander, and future expanders.

Size

-Standard model: (W) 17 x (D) 13 x (H) 7 cm

-Special edition model: (W) 27 x (D) 22 x (H) 8 cm

Warranty

-Comes with 2 years of standard european warranty