Get Greater Versatility and Deeper Chorus Tones with the EarthQuaker Devices Rainbow Machine Polyphonic Pitch Mesmerizer V2

Welcome to the Rainbow Machine, in all its synthetic glory! This one is for experimenters, adventurists, and noisemakers. Totally not for purists and/or tone hounds. There are no “natural sounds” that come from this box. It takes modern DSP and uses it as a tool of future past to create real-time pitch shifting using digital oscillators.

The Rainbow Machine has been completely re-imagineered from the pixie dust-covered ground up to be more versatile, twice as loud as the original, with an extended delay time, deeper chorus tones, silent flexiswitch footswitches on both the Activate and Magic functions, and most of all, more Magic.

The Pitch control adjusts the frequency of the polyphonic pitch-warped harmony from a fourth below your input, to a third above, and every atonal pitch in-between. Noon is the unison position. Pitch may also be controlled via expression pedal. Use the Primary function control to adjust the volume of the polyphonic harmony.

The Tracking control adjusts the lag time between the wet and dry signals. Tone rolls off some treble for a darker, “vintage” sound. Clockwise Tone settings are bright, counterclockwise is dark.

The Secondary control adds an octave of the Primary harmony. When the Pitch control is above noon, Secondary adds an octave above the harmony. When the Pitch control is below noon, the Secondary control will add one octave below the harmony. With the Pitch set to noon, the Secondary control adds an additional chorus voice for modulated, triple-tracked tones. Use this control to blend in faux-shimmer sounds or a low-frequency rumble. It’s up to you. From there, it’s only a matter of how weird you wanna get.

And you can choose how weird you get with the Magic control. This is a regeneration control that creates aliasing (among other things) by feeding the Primary and Secondary signals back on themselves and each other, and a bunch of other stuff no one understands.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Dimensions: 4.65 x 3.65 x 2.25 in. (118 x 93 x 57 mm) with knobs
• Power: This device takes a standard 9 volt DC power supply with a 2.1mm negative center barrel

Manufacturer: EarthQuaker Devices
Model: RAINBOW MACHINE V2
SKU: I501188-N-1-WHXB
UPC: 855755007237

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