First Look at OBNE Iota

video upload by Duskmos

"Today I'm pumped to share in the launch day festivities for the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Iota - a pedal shaped synth with big sound and bigger features. Hang out while I go through the controls and then do a play through and exploration!"

00:00 Intro
02:04 Controls
10:49 Sound Demos
23:50 Thoughts

"Iota is a tone generator, which is to say, a synth for your pedalboard. It is designed to make playing easy: regardless of your skill level or familiarity with synthesizers, you’ll quickly be making fun sounds, and running them through all your favorite effects. Pick the character of your sound, some notes, and some parameters for how Iota moves through those notes, then set it in motion. Music theory? Sound design? Fret not, just have some fun!

Iota has:

Presets

Expression control over every knob

MIDI control over everything in the pedal, including tempo via MIDI clock and root note via MIDI notes

Mono or stereo output

Aux footswitch for manual triggering of notes, tap tempo, or preset switching

Controls include:

A bank of 12 pushbuttons to set your root note, scale intervals, or one of 12 onboard presets

Osc, Noise, Octave and Volume to shape the core sound

Rate, Range, and Direction to control the speed, range, and direction Iota moves through its sequence of notes

Skip and Hold to create random or patterned skips within the sequence

Bend, Glide and Swing to add a bit more interest to the way the notes move

Env Length, Shape, and Mix to set the way each note swells in or out

Scramble to shuffle the notes around"