Polyend Mess Multi-Effect Step Sequencer

Polyend Mess

Polyend's Mess is a multi-effects pedal with four independent tracks, over 120 assignable effects, and a powerful sixteen-step sequencer for real-time, hands-on sound design. It is a machine at once clinical and explosive: a sleek box of stainless intent that can either treat your tone with delicate, surgical reverence or shred it into ecstatic, shimmering debris. In the studio or on the stage, Mess feels less like discovering a secret backchannel to the deepest structures of your sound—a place where texture, rhythm, and chance collide.

 

At its heart, Mess is a shape-shifter. Turn off its sequencer, and it behaves like a particularly versatile multi-effects unit, offering lush reverbs, analog-style delays, classic modulations, brutal distortions, and spectral smears that twist familiar timbres into otherworldly forms. But turn on the sequencer, and Mess becomes a living, breathing entity: effects parameters dance to shifting patterns, tracks stretch and fold into polyrhythms, and probabilities breathe randomness into otherwise mechanical loops. It's a musical alchemist's kit where looping fragments can become seething swarms, granular bursts can whisper or scream, and every shift of a knob can tip the balance from order to sublime chaos.

 

Controls are immediate and tactile, demanding little and offering much: a 16-step grid pad for sequencing, stomp switches for swapping effects and scrolling presets, and expression pedal support for live manipulation. Every track can operate at its own speed and length, opening up possibilities for polyrhythms, polymeters, and granular time experiments. Want to slow one effect to a glacial crawl while another spits and slices in frantic stutters? Easy. Feel like sequencing a shimmering delay wash while a distorted, bitcrushed loop glitches in another corner? Child's play. No matter your musical goals, Polyend's Mess invites you to tinker, to shape, to abandon caution, and to discover new sounds just one misstep away from brilliance.

 

Mess Features

4-Track Multi-effect sequencer with per-step parameter control

Over 120 studio-quality stereo effects

Deep customization: adjustable track speed, length, probability, and more

MIDI clock sync and CC control for seamless integration

Expression pedal support with assignable destinations

Save and scroll through up to 1000 presets

Quick effect swap and reorder function for live flexibility