Fantastic, thank you!
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Great analysis. Thanks!
Edit: Ouch! Loupé costs almost as much as two of those other pedals.
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I enjoyed this demo quite a bit; love seeing harpists getting experimental.
Another one, this time just the Habit was used (no other chase bliss pedals were harmed or used to manipulate in this clip). All Prophet 5 + one sample, then some reverb…
I’m enjoying it. Maybe over using it to a degree here, but that’s sort of the point on this one. Its taking me somewhere I’ve not been personally, if that makes sense. Funny how a small little effects box can change the feel of something so much.
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Nice.
Do you record the effect in parallel (like on a send) or do you play the Prophet through the Habit and record that?
I got the Habit earlier today and just quickly played a little DFAM beat I had going through it. It removed a lot of the bass… Even on bypass. Did you find that as well?
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Thanks!
No, it’s straight through it (well, via a mini hosa patchbay).
I’ll check to see if I loose any bass in a bit! I’d not noticed it.
Are you using any balanced cables anywhere? Just as a straight delay (No spread or scan or modifiers)?
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Thanks for the reply.
Yip, everything off, I even tried on bypass.
Good call on the cable, I will check that when I’m back home.
Got a surprise Saturday delivery of my Habit and have been messing with it this afternoon: it is really very cool. I think it’s going to take some time to learn how to control it, but just playing Lyra-8 into it and letting the buffer do its thing in the background is pure bliss. Similar immediate sweetness from running my modular through it and twiddling.
Although what it’s doing is very different to the Microcosm, I do think there’s some similarity now that I’ve played with it, just in the sense of it giving you this lush evolving accompaniment that’s related to your playing. Microcosm is a lot more controlled/predictable, though I think that might be my lack of Habit skills atm. Also feels a little like Soma Cosmos in the feeling of your ‘loop’ shifting around in the background. It definitely feels related to the Blooper and Mood but it’s not quite either. Kinda like if Mood’s microloops freely progressed and could be manipulated by Blooper’s modifiers. But yeah, it seems to be very unique and very deep on first impression.
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No bass loss that I can see at a quick glance at the eq in Ableton and a listen. tried with it off, on and then taken out of the chain…
Quick question for any Habit & Mood owners. Which of these do you think is more adept at creating new sequences where the source material is still recognizable. I’m toying with the idea of using one of these to spice up my synth lines/create new but similar sequences. What I envision is playing a few bars into the pedal and then manipulating that source material to get a new sequence to potential use in the same composition.
So for this I wouldn’t want something in another key or with a significantly different feel to it. From what I’ve seen the Mood is adept at creating pads and ambiance but that’s not really what I’m after exactly. The closest comparison I found of this with these pedals came from the youtuber Emily Hopkins playing the harp. Her demo of the Habit seemed to do what I’d like more-so than her demo of the Mood. However, I keep hearing about people who really enjoy the Mood and use it often.
I also recognize that maybe neither of these pedals is good for this use case. I’ve never used an FX pedal with my synths so not sure what exactly to look for. Also I’m not sure if them being mono matters.
Really wonderful!!
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I can’t really see the Mood doing what you want. The Habit is closer to this, but would be a pig to get it in time (not used midi sync yet, so maybe that will help). Or a Blooper.
Sound like an Octatrack would be the best hardware option for you 
Maybe I’ve not understood what you want
Thank you 
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For spicing up a synth both are good, but Habit is probably the one if you want new accompanying sequences.
Mood is more like… it’ll snatch up a tiny micro loop (from a few hundred milliseconds to a couple of seconds). You can then “play” that micro loop by repitching it in stepped fifths and octaves with the clock knob (which also changes the sample rate, sounds v good) and sending it through delay, reverb or “slip” (a kind of delay where an audio buffer is played back at a speed set by a knob). You kinda bounce audio between the loop side and the effect side, it’s a very interesting design. You can make it more playable if you MIDI map a pad/key controller to the clock intervals - then you can play or sequence more interesting melodies than you can get from sweeping the knob. But what it’s not gonna do is generate some new sequences out of what you’re playing - the pedal itself needs to be played like an instrument to get the most out of it. It is very special in any case.
Habit you get a bit closer to generating compatible sequences, cos you’ll get snippets of your past playing from the last three minutes peeking back in. If these are also effected by the modifiers, you get something ‘new’ but related/familiar.
You might want to look into the Microcosm as well, which has a few modes (Seq, Arp, Blocks, Interrupt) which are quite close to the spice up synth/generate complimentary sequences thing you’d like. The biggest downside to it (imo) is that for each effect you basically just have two mysterious macro controls so you’re not really able to get very precise with what it does - it just does its Microcosm thing. Don’t get me wrong, it sounds lush, but YMMV depending how much fine control you like on your effects/sound design.
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Actually, yeah, that’s probably the thing that’s gonna definitely get you where you want, lots of prep required though.
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There’s probably a use case scenario (basis for rationalisation) where I could imagine myself needing/wanting a pedal like this, but then there are loads of scenarios where a Habit pedal wouldn’t be necessary or useful, even. It looks pretty cool, though. I reckon that it’ll make anything sound interesting.
It’d be rad to walk into a casino where all of the slot machines (the audio/sound reports/din) are being processed by Habit pedals that are all randomised and automated somehow. Diff combinations of the dip switches, etc.
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Exactly. And it seems that it will make everything kind of similar.
It seems one of those tools you want to have because eventually you’re going to feel like using.
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Thanks. It was indeed cable issue, I was using balanced cables. 
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That’s great news 
seem to remember my SubH not liking balanced. Yet I need to use one with my Prophet 5 to stop noise, though its not a balanced output. I’ve never understood this shit lol
Habit arrived this afternoon and I’ve been playing with it non-stop. Loving it so far–maybe it’s my experience with other weird gear, but I find the interface easy and intuitive. Beneath the cheery yellow exterior are some dark and depraved depths. If you like things on the experimental side, I think you’ll dig this pedal. It’s highly controllable, but not always predictable. You can be in some chill ambient drone territory, turn a knob–and in an instant you’ve jumped the median headed into oncoming traffic. It feels like an incredible sound design tool with a lot of range. Just like using the Cosmos–it’s easy to flush the buffer to start with a new section for a performance or recording. I’m giving it 5/5 patch cables.
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