about to pick one up?
Just curious on,
-your uses.
-hit rate on transforming your stock shit into mojo.
-can it do nice and aggressive?
-any other bits of wisdom you can impart…
house/techno/ambient/warped
No T Res love huh?
great for techno ambient. you can do these cool spacey reverb strings with it. it can be a bit hard to control however
yeah think it might be a bit wild and distracting. I get distracted easily… too many cross mod/effects/searching ra ra. Need to get in and get out 
Using a limiter is a good idea - things can get wild very quickly:-)
Have one … it’s great … and it’s a bit of a vanguard sound tool.
Very important, take time and try out as many different combinations of all of those knobs as possible and try to get a feeling about what can happen. Some people say it’s a bit of a chaotic behaviour. There is some truth to it, but the T-Res has it’s rules, which can be discovered.
Most important - use a limiter. Those two resonant filters are dangerous. There is no pre-warning and you can easily stumble over some “sweet-spots” of extremly high volumes. Protect your ears and your loudspeakers! It’s anolog filter technology without saveguard, after all!
Some suggestions:
- Try to send a short repeated pulse of sound to it, anything percussive with some broad frequency spectrum like punchy kicks, snares, toms or even the click of a metronome will do.
Then move the knobs, change the phases, play with the modulation, the feedbacks and the resonances. I like most FX3 and FX4, which are a kind of resonator circuit emulation. A simple ping can be changed to a ringing sound with lot’s of added harmonics, ranging from sweet to crunchy.
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Try to send two very different sound sources to the unit, like a pad-sound on the right channel and a percussive sound on the left channel.
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Use a bit of overdrive/overload. The amount of signal input can have significant impact to the output signal.
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Use the T-Res as a parallel FX chain and mix the output back to the original sound.
If your “aggressive” sound is ment to be something like a snarling crunchy bass, yes, this works too and it’s quite easy. Try the “negative” resonances of the filter, apply some crossmodulation, some feedback and phasing on an almost clean bass sound …
There would be much more to tell …
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Ended up buying a Sherman/Rodec Restyler in the end. Thanks for all the info!
Just bought one. It’s ace. Anyone else using one?
Actually I also thought of buying one because everyone tells how great it is. However I could not find any demos that really convinced me yet…
The demos online are all strangely awful. I went more on what other people were saying in forums. And the fact that Skee Mask used one on the drums on his album.
It is really fun for experimenting and you can coax some pretty drastic results from it if you are into drones, soundscapes etc.
Yes, T-Resonator is very nice thing for drones and soundscapes. Like this demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX_IBkZ8uRg
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I have T-Resonator mkI. I love it and use it always.
It has pretty powerful dsp chip on board, FV-1. I think, i’ll hack it some day (with help of FV-1 development kit).
Anyways i use it mainly as some subtle space layer in the mix. I send some stuff to it via send from my mackie 1604 vlz and return to subgroup (since it’s noisey a bit). I’d call it’s main role as dimensional bouillon maker which glues mix and gives it some organic qualities.
https://clyp.it/rks03trf some resonating atmosphere here was made with t-resonator.
I also plan to make sort of selfgenerating feedback ecosystem with it and boss rsd-10. Mainly as experiment though.
I used to have one (MK I) until very recently - I wasn’t using it all that much, so I sold it to save up for an Analog Heat, wich I think will suit me better for now, as a companion for my Octatrack.
to be honest, I had a hard time selling it - it’s a really nice instrument, and I’ve used it on and off a lot over the years… it takes time to master it, but once you do it, you can get completely absorbed into it - tweaking it in a very zen, minimalistic way… unfortunately most videos online don’t show this -they’re either recorded really badly, or they tweak everything like crazy… not the appropiate instrument for that, in my opinion.
on the downside, it added a lot of noise to the signal, and a significant high frequency cut - this issues are supposedly improved in MK II - can someone confirm this? I wonder how big is the improvement compared to MK I…
on the FX side, I LOVED the delays (specially 5), and I was recently asking for a similar delay unit, that might have the same chip, or a similar sound… if any of you knows one, please let me know!
otherwise, who knows… maybe I’ll end up buying another one sometime…
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Hello there!
Any update on this?
Cheers 
Hello! Welcome to Elektronauts.
What sort of update would you like? In my experience everything already posted above pretty much covers most things to know about the unit, especially the need for a limiter to protect your output.