Mine just arrived.
After a few weeks with the Blooper - which is really useful, inspiring and in its considerable thoughtfulness, distinguished from ‘standard’ looper approaches - I’m naively amazed how significantly different Mood is - even though that’s pretty clear from everyone from CBA themselves to the whole internet.
I had still expected Mood to feel like a related pedal but just with a shorter loop, reverb and some chirpy quirks.
However so far, just with an hour of no manual reading and getting stuck into it, it seems to be just what I was hoping. Not so much a granular tool box (which it might yet still be) but moreso a really nice delay with verb combined with a way of capturing short motifs and riffs and affecting/dissecting them whilst playing over them and then doing the same thing again.
Because of the verb, delay and microlooping (so far I mean several seconds rather than granular) combo it is one of the most comfortable organic auto-accompaniment tools I’ve ever used. Not simply click-riff-click-loop-play like a regular looper … I won’t try to explain but hopefully you get the sense of it.
As a noob to CBA I can see that whilst the hardware is top notch quality and design, it is the thought process and sound quality you are also paying for. They have that extra inspirational aura that elektron has. It’s not the machine so much as the way it inspires you to use it.
I’ll check back in a week after I’ve given it a thorough going over with sources other than guitar and have read the manual.
Nice to get the delivery on a friday afternoon!