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The Time Scape is an "on the fly" remix machine, huge and fat analog style delay and also a work with thousands of different effect possibilities when just seeking to process external sound. It has a 27 point patchbay to determine timing change ups, modulations, and odd granular effects of either a sampled sound (from extremely tight to up to about 5 seconds) or a direct incoming signal altered with either minimal delay or phenomenol analog style. Time is selectable between 3 ranges to allow for more range on the timing knob. This is a digital piece with a very warm sound and very analog characteristics. A sample can be slowed to grumbles or sped up a great deal. Patches can be made directly point to point.

When the Time Scape is being used specifically for making rhythmic parts via the sampler, it's as simple as pressing a button, sampling and adding bits and pieces - then further altering those parts with timing patches, granulation and modulation. When certain patches are set, they'll provide a time-based glitch effect which will displace segments of the incoming signal in different time formats depending on how it's patched, slicing one snippet and placing it before the next etc. When sampling in a time based patch, the incoming part will automatically be placed within the timing of the Time Scape, making a coherent loop.

In addition, there are patchable automated controls built in which toggle between two selectable patches, allowing for any variation of mod style effect. This can be used to bounce back and fourth between two ring mod effect, for example, or tap into the timing and cipher through parts of a sample.

By adding the Scape Sequencer to the mix and patching into the patchbay, thousands of possibilities are present for automated manipulation. This results in time based alterations of a sample, an incoming signal, or for use with the folktek Touchboard. When resampling or adding parts to a sample, the bits and pieces of the incoming signal are displaced into new order, in turn creating an instant remix of whatever you send in. Straight rhythmic, textured loops or seemingly chaotic polyrhythms - however you like.

The excess feedback potential allows for the possibility of using this work as a standalone piece - without any incoming signal. There are three touch points on the Time Scape which allow for excess low pass or high pass feedback - dub style.

Add the folktek Touchboard addition and it IS entirely standalone if desired. Each of the points on the board control different oscillators, noise or excessive feedback - which acts as your ASDR (attack, sustain, decay and release). In conjunction with the sequencer, you now how strange arpegiated sequences to control.

The Time Scape has all custom lamps, buttons and switches and all necessary standard controls - mix, feedback, level controls, sample on, delay on, add sample, auto patching, 1/4" input, 1/4" output, trigger jack. Includes 9v ac adapter , manual and patch cable.

All of the following Future upgrade options breathe entirely new life into this piece, making it more playable and allowing for thousands more possibilities. Each will be housed in a custom hardwood box. Since these upgrades are optional, the buyer will have to let me know if he/she would like the ports added on the side to fascilitate these upgrades. The additional ports are free but I was reluctant to add them, not knowing whether the buyer would want any future upgrades - Lest I be wasting my time and energy.

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= The all touch-based playable keyboard - polyphonic and feeding through the circuitry of the time machine to turn this piece into a samplable synthesizer.

= The 8 part sequencer (like that on the time scape sequencer) allows the the effects to be played in time - each part is patchable to the main patchbay generating some of the instant craziest hardware shit you've ever heard. There is no other piece of hardware that does anything like this when the sequencer is added. an amazing thing.

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Here is a broad array of sound sample still covering just a bit of the possibility of the time scape. Making an attempt to express something with such a wide range of potential is impossible without just making albums about it. Still, these samples attempt to portray a number of the various methods in which the Time Scape can be used - as a sampling remix tool, as a real time processor, as an analog delay and as a standalone sound source.

Below you'll find the samples (medium quality mp3) as well as some explanation of what's happening. Please excuse any clipping or peaked levels in the recording - I'm experimenting with new recording software. None of this is edited except where it says otherwise and no external processing is ever used.

These first three samples are the internalsounds of the Time Scape - no external processing, no incoming sound and no use of the Scape Sequencer. They do utilize the onboard auto patching and excess feedback.

Time Scape Waves 1

Time Scape Waves 2

Time Scape Waves 3

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These next samples go through some of the real-time, time-based alteration using the auto patch and auto add funtions, no sequencer, no external effects. The sound source is from my mp3 player - John Zorn, Satie, something unknown - the alteration is great enough to where it doesn't much matter what the sound source is, except that it be hard or soft - most of this is on the soft side.

Time Scape auto patching 1

Time Scape auto patching 2

Time Scape auto patching 3

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Here, bits of Satie are sent into the analog style delay and the excess feedback potential (utilizing the high pass and low pass feedback touch points) is explored

Time Scape delay

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The following are all loop-based recordings with the sample source being whatever's playing on the mp3 player, no external processing.

The first is a recordings of a single loop captured and altered by patching the Scape Sequencer into the patchbay on the Time Scape. John Zorn, a simple beat which begins with a subtle exploration of the use of the sequencer and time based patches but as the recording goes on the beat gets gradually more twisted, adding some ring mod, IDM madness, repeats of beat parts and finally returning to its source.

Time Scape loop 1

This recording is another captured beat twisted up gradually with the use of the sequencer - adding parts, subtracting parts, changing patches.

Time Scape loop 2

Here is Missisippi John Hurt live looped - "Candy Man" being altered by the sequencer. A bit long and perhaps annoying, but still it shows some of the timing variations

Time Scape loop 3

Here is John Zorn looped, fuqt with on the sequencer for awhile, later added to and eventually becoming a chaotic insane mess.

Time Scape loop 4

Last but not least, sections of longer recordings where playing the entire mess would be redundant - This is whatever is playing on the mp3 player being looped and altered with the use of the sequencer.

Time Scape loops 5

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There are four MP3 sound samples below. These were taken from a 38 minute recording of me playing the Wave Front Inverter (created in 2002). You can find the inverter on the main Delay page. While these two pieces are based on similar circuitry, the two are still quite different. The Time Scape is designed in a much different way - with the intention of expansion possibilities. Also having built multiple models since this original work, the design has advanced and the improvements have been integrated. That said, the Time Scape is capable of all of the sounds and processing recorded here as well.

The original recording being altered is a cassette recording of a friend and I playing piano at the pub - so there is a bit of noise in the original recording - nothing that I thought was too much to be of use for these recordings. On one of the tracks I simply laid a beat over top - you'll know when you hear it. Some of the samples sound overloaded but this was completely a result of converting a stereo recording (2 tracks) into mono (1 track).

The MP3's are medium quality to save space - each is around 4 minutes:

Wave Front Inverter 1

Wave Front Inverter 2

Wave Front Inverter 3

Wave Front Inverter 4

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