How do you demo or document something like KOMA Elektronik’s Field Kit FX? Well, you treat it like the mad experimental sound laboratory it is.
KOMA’s Field Kit FX was a massive hit even as a crowd funding project. It’s still listed as preorder, but will start to ship this month, beginning with backers.
In the meantime, our friends and music mavens Isabella and Zuzana (the latter a sometimes CDM contributor) have been working on helping document what you can do with this beast, from deep inside the Neukölln lair of the indie manufacturer.
And… yeah, it’s darned cool.
The “manual” isn’t a dry technical doc, either. It’s a recipe book full of creative ideas:
And the videos show how you can build ideas with this, as well. The whole package is the very opposite of a uni-tasker. So there’s a spring reverb, digital delay, a four-channel mixer with tone control, frequency shifter, looper, bit crusher, envelope generator, and a little sequencer. And both digital and analog effects have copious mappings to control voltage, so you can manipulate and automate effects from other gear (including modular devices). That means there’s a whole lot to look at.
There’s a video featuring the looper & digital delay:
And the delay and the spring reverb (the rectangular tank you see attached):
Sequencing is included, too, for some rhythmic effects, so you can add that in:
Check out the hardware:
https://koma-elektronik.com/?product=field-kit-fx-modular-multi-effects-processor
Previously:
Koma just unveiled a whole patchable analog effects toolkit