Jomox T-Resonator Analog Filter Delay Synth Effect with Original Box

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"Here is a fabulously powerful analog filter box/delay effect/synthesizer from Jomox...

Inside its heavy-duty metal casing, it's a pair of excellent sounding analog Moog filters, LFO, envelope follower, and delay lines. But it's a lot more than that.

I called this device a synthesizer because you can use the feedback routings to generate tones.

You can feed almost everything into everything else, and there is some frequency modulation going on too. There are probably more routings in this box than in any other analog device of the same side without menus. All the controls are completely 1-knob-per-function.

When you start using this machine, you stop thinking of it as a pair of filters. And it starts to become in your mind an organism of interwoven, feedback-based tone generators. You learn to subtly play the feedback. You can make some incredibly beautiful, ethereal sounds when you carefully tweak the knobs to make a delicate matrix of filtering, delays, and feedback.

The sounds of the the original input can become just one theme in a beautiful shifting landscape of sound.

And the various delay-based algorithms sound great. The delays are digital (all the other audio circuitry is analog) and they always pass through the analog filters before feeding back, so you never have harsh or thin delay sounds. . . though they can be shimmering and lovely.

I recommend this instrument to guitarists who are looking for something really, really different, for experimentalists, for digital musicians looking for something really warm and organic to process or create sound, and for anyone who loves sound design and tweaking.

Can take a line level or instrument level input.

S/N 20080218

-Stereo In
-Stereo Out
-Envelope follower with LFO
-2 analog filters
-2 delay lines /chorus /reverb
-8 Algorithms
-Positive feedback loops
-Cross feedback
-FM feedback
-Power 9V~ AC

The following description is written by the creator of the T-Resonator, J. Michaelis.


T-Resonator

"T" stands for Time.

The T-Resonator transforms timely events into an analog feedbacked filter network.

What comes out of this you can hear in the audio samples.

The T-Resonator is something like an M-Resonator + Digital Delay. But you can select 8 different delay algorithms, each with different delays and different feedbacks and modulate them even with an LFO.
Delays reach from less than a millisecond to 1 second, range and structure is depending on the algorithm.

The delay feedback comes across the analog filters, of course.

You can create gaining analog echoes, "klingon parties" by extremely feedbacked wave guide algorithm and much more.
By the analog feedback everything sounds organic.
The screaming analog feedbacks can delay themselves and thereby form new sound patterns.

The sine LFO gets retriggered by the audio signal and can be shaped with the audio envelope or just run alone.
In center position the amount is 0, to the left it's envelope-shaped LFO, to the right it's only LFO.

The filters are made from discreet parts and form a 24 dB pole lowpass filter transistor cascade.

They can - in any thinkable way - be self feedbacked and be coupled or feedbacked with each other, so that extreme sounds and chaotic states create - all what you need today for creative analog sound design.

Incredible bass gains or screaming scratch sounds are no problem.
The mix pots are zeroed in center position; any other angle will couple or feedback negatively or positively. FM in both directions is also available.

The input has an adjustable gain and a Hi-Z input to plug in a guitar directly. Any line level signal can be processed, be it either mono or stereo."