Red Panda pedals are renowned market leaders when it comes to innovative new sound. Their granular delay/pitch shifting pedal, the Particle, has been blowing peoples minds for a couple of years. The Red Panda Particle 2 (granular delay & pitch shift) chops your signal into small grains, using the techniques of granular synthesis in real time. Results range from radical pitch and delay modulation to shimmering repeats to stutter/glitch sounds. The Particle has had little in way of competition for the the experimentalist connoisseur due to its seemingly unending soundscape possibilities. Red Panda must of decided that a little in house competition was healthy. Up step the Red Panda Raster 2 delay & pitch shifter.
The Red Panda Raster is a digital delay with a pitch shifter integrated into the feedback loop. It delivers a wide range of sounds including harmonized delays, reverse delays, chorus, arpeggios, infinite descents, chaotic self-oscillation, and continuously evolving soundscapes. Raster excels with short delay times and high feedback. Knob responses are carefully tuned for exploration of self-oscillation and feedback on the verge of blowing up. At maximum feedback settings, dirt in the feedback loop causes repeats to decay into a wash of noise. Two reverse delay modes can be used for reverse melodies or with pitch shifting for crystal echoes. Delay can be minimized to use the Raster as an old-school pitch shifter. Using a phase shifter in the feedback loop creates subtle evolving repeats, phase shifting, and barber pole flanging. it can be pushed to extremes for inharmonically shifted delays that distort and break apart. When used as a conventional delay, small shifts allow repeats to evolve in subtle ways.
Capable of extreme sonic mayhem, it can also be used with restraint to add character to your sound.
If the Raster doesn’t do it for you , shop delay pedals here and shop pitch shift pedals here.
