Butterfly Effects Dobbo Granular FX Pedal

Butterfly Effects Dobbo

Dobbo from Butterfly Effects is your granular companion for sonic journeys into the unknown, reshaping musical gestures into blurred landscapes, crystalized lattices, and playful interactions. At its core, Dobbo is a granular effect that constantly records your playing and uses this iterative capture to create captivating rearrangements of sound. With a versatile range of controls, Dobbo lets you stretch and repitch sounds, send them into rhythmic sputters, and create infinite textures from momentary impulses. Beyond these intentional interventions, Dobbo invites chance as an operator of sonic discovery and divination, providing a perfect partner for playful improvisation.

 

Dobbo's straightforward controls offer plenty to the intuitive explorer, while deep practice rewards even greater capabilities. The Rate knob sets a speed at which grains of sound are triggered for playback, with the ability to clock these time divisions using tap tempo or MIDI clock. Time sets a delay time for grain playback, from immediate real time performance to a five second delay. Size sets the window of musical time each grain inhabits, from 10ms microsounds to full one-second samples. Using these three controls together, Dobbo enables anything from swarms of layered sounds which follow your playing closely to slapback memories of musical gestures. The Pitch knob introduces pitch modulation with smooth, octave, and stepped settings, perfect for blooming low end clouds or shimmering, crystalline echoes. Finally, Mix sets a blend between the input signal and Dobbo's creations, while Space adds a unique spatial character and reverb to your sounds.

 

At the bottom of Dobbo, the Chance knob sets an amount of random modulation for Rate, Time, Size, and Pitch. Using the button in the middle of the four LED indicators, the random modulation depth can be set for each parameter, allowing you to fine tune which aspects of Dobbo's engine develop over time. Using these powerful chance modulators, Dobbo becomes at once an instrument itself and an improvising partner, serving up unique inflections and recontextualizations of your playing that beget further musical interactions. Hold mode allows you to capture Dobbo's always-recording buffer and hold onto the last five seconds, letting you explore this captured moment with endless manipulation. With the ability to save your favorite presets and control Dobbo's settings via MIDI or expression control, even more opportunities for creative discovery abound, giving you nuanced control to recall and affect Dobbo's unique granular environments. Whether you need a dedicated centerpiece for improvisatory exploration or are looking for a unique granular effect to take your sound into new directions, Dobbo from Butterfly Effects is here to play.

 

Dobbo Features

Granular effect pedal

Constantly captures audio in a 5 second buffer for immediate manipulation

Rate sets speed at which grains are triggered, with synchronized time divisions in tap tempo or MIDI clock modes

Time sets delay time of grains up to 5 seconds

Size sets size of grains from 10ms to 1 second

Pitch sets pitch of grains with tape-like repitching

Mix sets blend of input and granular signals

Space adds stereo panning to grains and reverb for spatial sound

Forward, ping-pong, and reverse grain playback

Pitch can be set with smooth, stepped, or octave-only modes

Grain envelope modes for percussive or textural sound design

Chance control adds random modulation to Rate, Time, Size, and Pitch with independent depths

Tap tempo footswitch

Hold mode temporarily freezes audio stored in Dobbo's buffer

Expression pedal or MIDI external control

8 preset slots for storing and recalling settings