Got a Microcosm about 4 months ago and, quite honestly, there hasn’t been a single time I’ve turned it on when it hasn’t brought a big smile to my face and taken me in some unexpected direction. A remarkable composition tool… I always have Logic running in the background now, even when I’m just noodling, because you never know when something awesome will just appear from nowhere!
Exactly!! It's good at pulling some element out of what you're playing that makes you think about it in a different light. And definitely seconding the idea about running Logic continuously in case something good comes up. I had to go back and try to reconstruct a few moments for this video. The train track originally was *much* more complex, but I lost a recording and setting :(
For a moment, I thought I had tuned into a John Diliberto program. 😁 Great episode! I can imagine sitting down with this pedal for hours on end, creating soundscapes that are, as you explained, temporal. But I find those fleeting grooves so relaxing and cathartic that I don’t mind their short existence. There will always be the next aural journey. Looking forward to additional episodes on the Microcosm!
Nail on the head, AstroDad. I actually made a cut of recordings for the video a week or so ago, when I was dead-set on showing off all of the features of each effect. What I found was that I was stumbling into more interesting combinations just in the process of noodling around, hence the pivot of the video to be kind of wandering and based around the fun. I just wish I had remembered the word "temporal" before recording, that would have made me sound a lot smarter, haha!
I watched lots of demos of this when it first came out, but this is the clearest demo I’ve seen. Excellent work and cool sampling! Looking forward to the follow on vids! ✌️😌🎸
Awesome vid man. Your smile makes it obvious how much fun it is. Love the unlimited capabilities this presents. The wind chime was a genius idea! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I tried to many things to try and get the type of reaction I wanted. I needed something with a hard attack but lots of sustain, but also something tuned to a key. I banged a bunch of hex keys together and they met the first two criteria. Jangling keys almost worked as well. There’s much to explore with small audible calamities in the world around us.
Love this tech, and loving the way you brought it forward for us. The density of the sound design availability here really approaches (r=0) in it's own way. Singularity in stereo, if you will. Godspeed!
It really is an incredibly nerdy pedal. When you first starting playing with it, you're just having a ton of fun reacting to what it does, and once you get more familiar with it, it's still fun, but because you've got the experience to make some of those magic moments happen.
I see this as a tool that creatives can use for soundscapes on video/film projects and as noise generators for art installations. It seems like perfect thing for that sort of stuff. How you were immersed into the Microcosm reminded me a lot of how I used to get sucked in to doing weird stuff with my full rack sized Alesis MidiVerb back in the day. Hours would go by...... Oh! Hey, I forgot to go to work again! Keep up the good work!
That's definitely an application. Something random or environmentally-determined feeding into this could result in something very interesting... and that gives me an idea for some sort of like an occupation sensor plugged into a Raspberry Pi, generating input signals for this... The MidiVerb (I had a Quadraverb, but WAY past its prime) and all of those mega-packed rack units had some really interesting modes to them. I've got a Rocktron Chameleon Online that has some of the thickest, craziest modulations I've ever heard. Hope you made it to work on time!!
People are such babies. You are one of the best pedal reviewers on YT. If they dont like the way you're doing things, then tough luck, watch somebody elses channel, or they can do it themselves. Having fun with pedals/music is literally what it's all about lol. It's not who can play the better scales and solos, or who has the best/most current gear. IMO, the greatest music usually comes from the people/artists who dont have crazy expensive equipment, and just use what they have. A lot of times when i see people with top of the line gear, they're boring and plain as hell. No creativity at all
Wow. With this equipment, anyone can sound like Arcade Fire or Dead Mouse. A little out of my budget but I am looking for something fun for my next purchase.
It sound feels like an old Si-Fi film ))) Besides, I like The Conversation, it's along with Blow-up (1966) my favirite pictures in this genre. But your searches of different sounds reminded me another film - Blow Out (1981) with John Travolta. So you touch all the lines with Microcosm :-)
Yes, I totally agree, this film is really brilliant! Amazing views and filming. Funny, but I saw it first only 2 or 3 years ago, after the Klute, when interested in Pakula's pictures.
Heck yeah! They really hit the balance right in terms of features, fit, and price. I just grabbed another Reverend that’ll make a debut in the next video :)
Its the only pedal i keep warching videos about even after owning it for a year. Yours showed le some nice things. The trains. Still strugglung wirh a couple of algos: what to do with glide? Can tolerate it only slow, drenched in verb. Any ideas? And ne likes warp? Sometimes i wish there was a deep editor to get into the algos. Well it is what it is. Its beautiful. And it plays you.
Thank you! A lot has to do with the input signal. Guitar works for most of them, but for others, the settings really need to have a sharp attack and long sustain. I’m gonna do a follow up video with some synths which might help illustrate that.
That thing is awesome you barely gotta feed anything into it and it makes a huge awesome sound scape anything from hologram is pretty much like that .I would certainly overuse any of there pedals along with anything from red panda,drolo,pladask elektris and chase Bliss or other companies that do the granular insanity.bananana is another
Thanks, Wes! That's a big concern with me as well, over-using the effects. After seeing a demo of the Red Panda Particle last weekend, I know that's gonna be one of my next purchases, and I'm definitely gonna over-use that thing.
Honestly, between the Microcosm, Jets, and Dream Sequence, I was able to find more fun sounds in the Microcosm, but I think the Dream Sequence is great for finding songwriting inspiration. Jets is fun, but I prefer the other two. Haven't tried their latest offering yet.
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Got a Microcosm about 4 months ago and, quite honestly, there hasn’t been a single time I’ve turned it on when it hasn’t brought a big smile to my face and taken me in some unexpected direction. A remarkable composition tool… I always have Logic running in the background now, even when I’m just noodling, because you never know when something awesome will just appear from nowhere!
Exactly!! It's good at pulling some element out of what you're playing that makes you think about it in a different light. And definitely seconding the idea about running Logic continuously in case something good comes up. I had to go back and try to reconstruct a few moments for this video. The train track originally was *much* more complex, but I lost a recording and setting :(
So cool that you have reviewed this thing.
Do not let the keyboard warriors bother you. You are doing it just right. The fun confirms it.
Never had and never will. The fun shall continue :)
Michael Casm is an epic soundscape generator. Seriously amazing pedal. Fantastic demo dude!! *He'll Ye'ah*
😎👍💖🎶
Ha, sounds like I need to check the closed captions?
@@StompboxBreakdown lol no, you're good! Its just what I heard someone call Microcosm once, so now I ALWAYS call it that. 😁
@@sov777 Ooohhh, ha ha ha ha. Well now I’m gonna do it too
@@StompboxBreakdown This is the way🫡
Excellent video. That’s quite the cool effect.
For a moment, I thought I had tuned into a John Diliberto program. 😁 Great episode! I can imagine sitting down with this pedal for hours on end, creating soundscapes that are, as you explained, temporal. But I find those fleeting grooves so relaxing and cathartic that I don’t mind their short existence. There will always be the next aural journey. Looking forward to additional episodes on the Microcosm!
Nail on the head, AstroDad. I actually made a cut of recordings for the video a week or so ago, when I was dead-set on showing off all of the features of each effect. What I found was that I was stumbling into more interesting combinations just in the process of noodling around, hence the pivot of the video to be kind of wandering and based around the fun.
I just wish I had remembered the word "temporal" before recording, that would have made me sound a lot smarter, haha!
I watched lots of demos of this when it first came out, but this is the clearest demo I’ve seen. Excellent work and cool sampling! Looking forward to the follow on vids! ✌️😌🎸
Awesome vid man. Your smile makes it obvious how much fun it is. Love the unlimited capabilities this presents. The wind chime was a genius idea! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I tried to many things to try and get the type of reaction I wanted. I needed something with a hard attack but lots of sustain, but also something tuned to a key. I banged a bunch of hex keys together and they met the first two criteria. Jangling keys almost worked as well. There’s much to explore with small audible calamities in the world around us.
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Best demo of this unique pedal. A second part is needed. Sadly, the Microcosm can't be found in Argentina.
Great job dude. Greetings! ❤
Dude you only can order it directley from hologram. Same in germany. Bite the bullet! I sold some old pedals to get it. Get it.
@@dasczwo 🤗❤️🤗
Love this tech, and loving the way you brought it forward for us. The density of the sound design availability here really approaches (r=0) in it's own way.
Singularity in stereo, if you will. Godspeed!
It really is an incredibly nerdy pedal. When you first starting playing with it, you're just having a ton of fun reacting to what it does, and once you get more familiar with it, it's still fun, but because you've got the experience to make some of those magic moments happen.
I see this as a tool that creatives can use for soundscapes on video/film projects and as noise generators for art installations. It seems like perfect thing for that sort of stuff. How you were immersed into the Microcosm reminded me a lot of how I used to get sucked in to doing weird stuff with my full rack sized Alesis MidiVerb back in the day. Hours would go by...... Oh! Hey, I forgot to go to work again! Keep up the good work!
That's definitely an application. Something random or environmentally-determined feeding into this could result in something very interesting... and that gives me an idea for some sort of like an occupation sensor plugged into a Raspberry Pi, generating input signals for this...
The MidiVerb (I had a Quadraverb, but WAY past its prime) and all of those mega-packed rack units had some really interesting modes to them. I've got a Rocktron Chameleon Online that has some of the thickest, craziest modulations I've ever heard. Hope you made it to work on time!!
@@StompboxBreakdown 😂😂
That sounds like a great idea! 👍
Look forward to it.
Now I want a Thingamagoop 😅 i love my microcosm. I use it with my bass and it sounds amazing
This rocks. I keep trying to decide whether to like these or not, and your demo highlights a lot of sounds that I liked! RIP to my wallet
love this pedal
People are such babies. You are one of the best pedal reviewers on YT. If they dont like the way you're doing things, then tough luck, watch somebody elses channel, or they can do it themselves. Having fun with pedals/music is literally what it's all about lol. It's not who can play the better scales and solos, or who has the best/most current gear. IMO, the greatest music usually comes from the people/artists who dont have crazy expensive equipment, and just use what they have. A lot of times when i see people with top of the line gear, they're boring and plain as hell. No creativity at all
Wow. With this equipment, anyone can sound like Arcade Fire or Dead Mouse. A little out of my budget but I am looking for something fun for my next purchase.
It sound feels like an old Si-Fi film ))) Besides, I like The Conversation, it's along with Blow-up (1966) my favirite pictures in this genre. But your searches of different sounds reminded me another film - Blow Out (1981) with John Travolta. So you touch all the lines with Microcosm :-)
Blow Out is another favorite. Also The Parallax View, all high-anxiety spy/conspiracy/paranoia movies.
Yes, I totally agree, this film is really brilliant! Amazing views and filming. Funny, but I saw it first only 2 or 3 years ago, after the Klute, when interested in Pakula's pictures.
Very inspirational episode. Who's complaining?
People will always find a way to complain
Also a big fan of the Reverends!
Heck yeah! They really hit the balance right in terms of features, fit, and price. I just grabbed another Reverend that’ll make a debut in the next video :)
Its the only pedal i keep warching videos about even after owning it for a year. Yours showed le some nice things. The trains. Still strugglung wirh a couple of algos: what to do with glide? Can tolerate it only slow, drenched in verb. Any ideas? And ne likes warp? Sometimes i wish there was a deep editor to get into the algos. Well it is what it is. Its beautiful. And it plays you.
Thank you! A lot has to do with the input signal. Guitar works for most of them, but for others, the settings really need to have a sharp attack and long sustain. I’m gonna do a follow up video with some synths which might help illustrate that.
That thing is awesome you barely gotta feed anything into it and it makes a huge awesome sound scape anything from hologram is pretty much like that .I would certainly overuse any of there pedals along with anything from red panda,drolo,pladask elektris and chase Bliss or other companies that do the granular insanity.bananana is another
Thanks, Wes! That's a big concern with me as well, over-using the effects. After seeing a demo of the Red Panda Particle last weekend, I know that's gonna be one of my next purchases, and I'm definitely gonna over-use that thing.
Interesting how much they can dress up a delay
Need me this
Yes!!
Im also torn between this and the infinite jets
Honestly, between the Microcosm, Jets, and Dream Sequence, I was able to find more fun sounds in the Microcosm, but I think the Dream Sequence is great for finding songwriting inspiration. Jets is fun, but I prefer the other two. Haven't tried their latest offering yet.
More poetry: Like singing with a stutter.
You should demo the Warped Dimensions by Sonicake. The style and capability will be great for you. It'll fit this channel so well