AC NOISES CONTINUA: A New Band Member

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"Sometimes a device that gives back comes along. One that acts like a band member, with its own ideas and fresh input.
This is one of those. But you still get to tell this band member what to do, if you like.
There is a great potential for sound design and sparks for new ideas right beneath the surface. Awesome."



CONTINUA is a stereo dynamic sampler and multi-effect that doesn’t just play your sound back: it listens to how you play and reacts in real time, capturing, shaping and transforming your repeats through a wide range of controls including mix, tempo (TAP function included), pitch, sustain, freeze, glitch, dimension, lo-fi, downsampling, reverb, smear and filter.

In the meantime, your dry signal can remain completely untouched or be routed through the multi-effect section for further processing.

Born from the collaboration between AC noises and Andrea Degli Esposti from BunkerNoise, CONTINUA is designed for deep and hands-on interaction. It gives you access to both primary and secondary parameters, allowing you to sculpt your sound with precision. Shape its response by adjusting in-fx, sensibility, threshold, attack, release and stereo spread, or dive into effect-specific controls like lo-fi modulation, reverb decay and more.

Decide whether your repeats move forward or in reverse, and whether they emerge in full or dissolve into ghostly tails. Also, when things need to break apart, unleash pure chaos with the momentary tilt function.

CONTINUA offers two onboard presets, full MIDI implementation with input and output (mini-jack) and a USB-C connection for MIDI integration and firmware updates.

Routing options include:

Mono Input → Mono Output
Mono Input → Stereo Output
Stereo Input → Stereo Output
It also features selectable buffered (which can be set in tail or hard bypass mode) or true bypass.

Power: 9v center negative

Current draw: ~ 250mA"