First batch Kickstarter units shipped with more to follow over the next weeks!
Two months after successfully starting the production process, Berlin-based KOMA Elektronik is happy to announce that our latest machine, the Field Kit FX, is officially shipping! First we will ship out all the Kickstarter rewards, after which we will start shipping all pre-orders and dealer orders. Have a sneak peak in our office on the busiest shipping day of this year so far.
The new KOMA Elektronik Field Kit FX is a powerhouse of an effect with an on board Looper, Frequency Shifter, Bit Crusher, Digital Delay, Spring Reverb, 4 Channel VCA Mixer, 4 Step Sequencer, Mini ADSR and all of that under CV control! Wanna hear what that sounds like!? Over the past weeks we added a bunch of new videos to our YouTube channel. [below]
We are very much looking forward to see what all our customers will do with their Field Kit FX’s; to learn new techniques and see musical creativity in action! All units are hand assembled in Berlin, Germany and the Field Kit FX, in both boxed and Eurorack version, is now available for order from the KOMA Elektronik website, all orders made from now onwards will ship earliest in May 2018.
"Isabella runs through the different features of the KOMA Elektronik Field Kit FX, this time around the Roll-O-Decks Sequencer and Spring Reverb! The Field Kit FX will be shipping later this month to all Kickstarter backers and soon also to all people who pre-ordered!
Make your tracks less boring with this powerhouse of modular effects! The Field Kit FX boasts a Spring Reverb, Digital Delay, 4ch VCA Mixer with Tone control, Frequency Shifter, Looper, Bit Crusher, ADSR and Mini Sequencer! All under CV control! Hell yeah!"
"Wouter has been working on his 2018 setup lately, which consists out of a Field Kit, a Korg Volca with MIDI Out mod controlling a Yamaha FB-01 soundmodule and a Field Kit FX for all the effects. In this video the Yamaha FB-01 is ran through the Frequency Shifter and the Aux from the Field Kit runs through the Digital Delay and 4ch mixer on the Field Kit FX! So many possibilities!"
"Isabella runs through the different features of the KOMA Elektronik Field Kit FX, this time around the Looper and Digital Delay! The Field Kit FX will be shipping later this month to all Kickstarter backers and soon also to all people who pre-ordered!
Make your tracks less boring with this powerhouse of modular effects! The Field Kit FX boasts a Spring Reverb, Digital Delay, 4ch VCA Mixer with Tone control, Frequency Shifter, Looper, Bit Crusher, ADSR and Mini Sequencer! All under CV control! Hell yeah!"
Playlist:
FIELD KIT ACTION - LOOPER & DIGITAL DELAY
FIELD KIT FX ACTION - DIGITAL DELAY & SPRING REVERB
FIELD KIT FX ACTION - ROLL-O-DECKS SEQUENCER & SPRING REVERB
FIELD KIT FX ACTION - ROLL-O-DECKS, DELAY & SPRING REVERB
"Isabella runs through the different features of the KOMA Elektronik Field Kit FX, which will be shipping later this month to all Kickstarter backers and soon also to all people who pre-ordered! Make your tracks less boring with this powerhouse of modular effects! The Field Kit FX boasts a Spring Reverb, Digital Delay, 4ch VCA Mixer with Tone control, Frequency Shifter, Looper, Bit Crusher, ADSR and Mini Sequencer! All under CV control! Hell yeah!"
"Berlin in winter is grey and sad, until the sun comes out! Woutr enjoys the afternoon making some drones in Tempelhof with the Field Kit FX and Bastl Kastl, powered by our upcoming mobile power solution Strom Mobile!
"Our latest machine the Field Kit FX has been funded through the community at Kickstarter and is now available for pre-order here on the KOMA website.
PLEASE NOTE: This item will be shipped from April 2018. Any items purchased in the same order will also be shipped then. If you want to have the available items sooner, then please order them separately.
The Field Kit FX is more fun with the right tools! You could add the FX Expansion Pack, which offers a spring reverb tank and other goodies!"
"Following up a successful NAMM 2018, our European Invasion event kicked off with the fine folks from Koma Elektronik. They dropped by to show us their new modules and share some laughs. A big thanks to Wouter Jaspers and Robert Kunz. From Germany with love.
"Four new patches on the new Field Kit FX highlighting the Frequency Shifter, Looper, Spring Reverb and Digital Delay together with the Make Noise o-coast!
The Field Kit FX is currently in production and will be shipping from March 2018 onwards."
"Here's another video with sound. Sometimes the sounds are quiet then loud, so watch out. It's not too bad though, I did level things out a bit. All sound is from the Ants! directly into the BD101, directly into a Focusrite Scarlett 18i6. No processing was done...except for the previously mentioned leveling of the levels.
And now let's do some unnecessary and wordy descriptions of all the boring stuff that happens in this video.
0:00 Intro. Fully dry signal from the Ants! through the BD101. Two oscillators played duophonically: one sine, one triangle. The AD envelope is controlling the filter (in highpass mode.) The ASR envelope is controlling the VCA.
0:20 From now to the end of the video it is the fully wet signal from the BD101. One LFO from Ants! is providing square wave modulation of the delay time. Another LFO (2 regular oscillators also have an LFO mode) is providing a little vibrato for the sine wave oscillator. Yet another LFO is used as the clock for the sample-and-hold. This is prepatched in the Ants!.
1:18 Playing high notes, YEEEEEAHHH. Also, introducing the gater from the BD101, the speed of which is being controlled by random sample-and-hold from Ants! You might notice I am playing notes that aren't sounding. This is because you can't really play legato via MIDI with Ants!, you have to make sure you articulate each note separately. I play like crap so I mess up a lot. :)
1:37 Pulling cable with the triangle wave from the filter mixer section. This is now the input for the sawtooth wave from that oscillator, which is prepatched internally to the 2nd input of the filter.
1:56 Taking that darn triangle wave and putting it into the filter cv input for audio rate filter fm. This breaks the connection of the AD envelope to the filter but hey, such is life. Always breaking normalized connections, am I right?
2:25 No more filter fm, triangle wave patched back into the filter, so no more sawtooth either. Lots of random gating effects going on.
3:02 Pulling the cable from the square wave of the LFO and using the triangle wave instead. So no more rhythmic pulse, but you do get some flangery stuff happening.
3:34 Edit! Jump to where I set the filter resonance to max. This got pretty loud so I turned this part down. This kind of crap continues until the end where it fades out with some random gating noise.
The Ants! is a semi-modular synth with oscillators that don't play in tune over a wide range, but it does have four of them, and lots of other stuff. It's a fun synth if you don't mind the limited oscillator tracking.
The BD101 is a very lo-fi analog delay. With very short delay times you can get chorus and flanging effects, but if you are hoping for a clean longer delay, you won't find it. But what it does have is lots of modulation possibilities. It also has a tremolo/gate. And I went to the Koma website and just found out it is discontinued as of December 13, 2017. Huh."
"BERLIN, GERMANY – December 13, 2017 – KOMA Elektronik GmbH today announced the discontinuation of the BD101 and FT201 effect pedals. KOMA plans to continue building a limited quantity of units while parts and materials last, which is not expected to be more than one month, after which the pedals will not be available anymore.
The BD101 Analog Gate/Delay and FT201 State Variable Filter / 10 Step Sequencer pedals were released in 2011 as the first two products put out by KOMA Elektronik and offer powerful and unique sounding effects for producers and electronic musicians.
Over the course of their seven-year existence, the BD101 and FT201 have gone through four production runs, including a 50 unit special black edition and a special edition for Scottish post rock band Mogwai. Their sonic signature can be heard on a ton of records, and its signature white enclosures can be found in top notch recording studios as well as on stage with amongst others electronic musicians Alessandro Cortini, Pole, Addison Groove, Henning Baer, RAC, Jimmy Edgar and more rock oriented musicians like Lee Ranaldo, Vessels, Chvrches and a bunch of noise music legends!
“Discontinuation is necessary, it gives us the peace of mind and financial runway to invest in our new products. We have a bunch of new machines with completely new designs lined up for release in 2018.” said KOMA’s CEO and product architect Wouter Jaspers. “The development process of the KOMA pedals has taught us a lot: not only how to make music machines, but also pointed us in the direction of the sound we think KOMA products represent and how to make those sounds as accessible as possible for the end user. A lot of this knowledge has gone into our latest products: the Field Kit and Field Kit FX. We will miss the pedals in our overall line-up for a bit, but we are sure what will come next will be super exciting!”
The BD101 & FT201 are still available in limited quantity from the KOMA Elektronik webshop at www.koma-elektronik.com and at stocking dealers while supplies last."
"The ETC and Pocket Piano are wonderful hosts! Invite other instruments to the table and see what happens when connected to an Organelle, Koma Elektronik Field Kit, Dwarfcraft Gears, Panasonic RR-830 and electric guitar."
"If you have been following my channel you might have seen the outdoors video I made with the KOMA Elektronik Field Kit FX prototype. In this video, I explain the techniques I used and give my opinion on the FKFX."
"This video shows the Koma Field Kit with the expansion pack which includes contact mics, actuators, a speaker and electromagnetic pickups. The Field Kit has circuitry designed to be used with electro-acoustic devices as well as a voltage controlled radio.
Join KOMA's Wouter while he takes a walk around Schillerkiez, Berlin with his latest creation: the "Fieldkitar," a mixture of the Field Kit and Field Kit FX, taped together with a strap so you can wear it and play it as an electro-acoustic keytar! Find sounds anywhere!
All audio was recorded directly on a Zoom recorder and normalized for levels, without any additional editing.
This portable setup is powered by the upcoming STROM Mobile (in stores January 2018), which allows you to power any 9V/12V music device from any type of 5V USB power bank, giving Field Kit and Field Kit FX users the possibility to really take their kits to the Field!"
"Koma Elektronik lent me a prototype Field Kit FX and their new power solution for mobile music making. I took them all out to the Tempelhofer Flugfeld for some outdoors music making. NEW TAPE ALERT: http://www.ultravioletlight.blue/prod...
Preliminary specs on the power thingie:
Two independent power lines with the following specs:
-adjustable voltage for each line (9V or 12V)
maximum output current:
~1,2A @ 9V (up to ~2,4 A with two power banks)
~0,9A @ 12V (up to ~ 1,8 A with two power banks)
Those output currents correspond to 2.4A @ 5V at the input, which is the maximum output current of most power banks.
Input current consumption displayed with an LED Bar. Allows to safely use power banks with various output currents.
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Using HOSA Hopscotch cables for multiplying the signals and allow more complex FX routing."
"Koma Elektronik lent me a prototype Field Kit FX and their new power solution for mobile music making. I took them all out to the Tempelhofer Flugfeld for some outdoors music making.
Preliminary specs on the power thingie:
Two independent power lines with the following specs:
-adjustable voltage for each line (9V or 12V)
maximum output current:
~1,2A @ 9V (up to ~2,4 A with two power banks)
~0,9A @ 12V (up to ~ 1,8 A with two power banks)
Those output currents correspond to 2.4A @ 5V at the input, which is the maximum output current of most power banks.
Input current consumption displayed with an LED Bar. Allows to safely use power banks with various output currents.
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Using HOSA Hopscotch cables for multiplying the signals and allow more complex FX routing."
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