Walrus released my favorite effect! | Walrus Audio Fable Granular Soundscape Generator Demo
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Walrus just released my favorite kind of effect - FABLE is a granular soundscape generator and it's a beautiful exploration in granular synthesis and delay. 5 unique modes to create glitchy, stuttery, pitch-shifted or reversed granular soundscapes. Come on a textural and ethereal journey and explore all the sights and sounds FABLE has to offer.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Sketch
02:09 Introduction
03:36 What is granular synthesis?
05:20 FABLE Overview
09:10 MODE I
12:57 MODE II
15:16 MODE III
17:45 MODE IV
20:35 MODE V
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1975 Fender Musicmaster Bass
Chase Bliss Blooper
Bondi Compressor
Walrus Audio Fable
Neunaber Wet v5
Universal Audio Dream 65 Reverb-Amp
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Post-Production
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Recorded using a Focusrite 18i20 interface into Reaper DAW
Video captured with Nikon D5300 and D7500 DSLR and edited in DaVinci Resolve 18
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This video totally sold it for me. Fable sounds so good!
Aw that’s great - it’s a really fun pedal!
Andrew, love your contributions to the ambient space!
Thanks so much! Appreciate the support 🙏🏼
Unreal! I just want to spend a lifetime in the fey realm soundscaping peoples dreams.
Damn man, not again. Walrus always does this to me. I'm going to be broke for soooo long if they keep on releasing these amazing pedals. Seriously though this one sounds beautiful.
Right? Same
So glad to see other people making ambient beauty with guitar
cheers man! :)
My goodness that's beautiful. This and the Lore would be glitch ambient heaven! Although it does feel like an oversight that they aren't at least including 3 presets like with the Slotva. This and the Lore have SO many setting options and having to use your fingers to adjust everything kinda rules out live use for me personally. Would be a super fun studio desk toy though.
Presets would be really useful for sure. It's a really fun "turn some knobs and see what comes" kind of pedal too, maybe that's what they're encouraging.
what's the difference between the lore and fable?
@@exploringwithasmrLore is primarily reverse reverb/delay based..this more delays /granular based
Sound good bro!! Amazing content.
Thanks man!
Can’t get enough of walrus 😩
Great job on this video. I love my Fable but I feel its limits. But you are amazing at showing us the real application
Thanks for watching! Yeah this one was one of my favorite releases of this past year; love the granular delay thing.
@@AmbientEndeavors I'd love to support the channel anyway possible.
Great demo, this sounds amazing! I've been using the Count to 5 (which I actually bought from you a year or two ago!) for these types of sounds, but this seems both more powerful and more intuitive. Having the modulation and filter control available is awesome, not to mention the actual meat of the processing. Count to 5 feels decidedly and intentionally unintuitive a lot of the time, and I often feel like some of the controls are over-tuned in a way that gives you access to an enormous range of largely unusable sounds. That range is fun to play with, but works against usability for me most of the time. Might have to replace it with one of these soon!
Yeah , they really are different animals, with some small similarities. Ct5 is its own thing, and especially if you use mode 2 or 3 for micro-looping you can use it in ways that Fable just can't compare, but there is definitely some overlap. Fable is a great exploration in granular sounds and lots of fun.
@@AmbientEndeavors Definitely very different beasts. Hope to get my hands on a Fable soon :)
Yup. That’s why I sold the count to five in my opinion was just way too much . I’d like things to be a little bit more subtle. Also, I will add that there is a low pass filter on the count to five.
Fable can't do at all what the CT5 does, maybe some minor overlap with Mode 1 but that's all.
CT5 is very easy to use and understand i think. But for granular stuff this Fable seems a better choice.
Would love to see a full rundown of your go-to sunday board
Same!
noted! I gotta get to that one of these days. It's a busy time over here, but that would be a fun video to shoot.
Yes for sure!
These new lines of pedals from Walrus are so insanely good. If there were presets, the fable would have a similar utility to something like the Mood from Chase Bliss. This company just keeps on pumping out killer products at a decent price, they might just be the most value for money brand out there. Good playing and soundscapes (as always)
I really love these bleep bloop pedals. I need to get at least one ha
join the party man!
“Bleep bloop” stealing that term. 👍🏼😄
sold me on it 👍
It’s a fun one!! Thanks for watching 🙏🏼
Awesome, glad I waited and didn't get the Lore. It's cool and all but I want this so much more. I have never seen a granulator pedal before
Red Panda had something out already and a few others, granular is really another word for spliced, and the length of a grain is the amount of time a splice is.
I got the Lore and it's magical..So is this...
Glad to see another granular effect hit the playing field! Does the Fable by chance have stereo-out, or is the stereo image in the demo from the Neunaber W3t? Also, if I may have the audacity, one point of feedback. During the "overview" section at about 5:20, it'd help to see an image of the pedal while you discuss the knobs and parameters; I struggled to "see" what you were talking about since it's a new effect. Thanks for a cool demo as usual!
Hey thanks for the constructive feedback, that's a very fair point.
Fable is mono, I'm running it through a mono Wet as well, so perhaps just dimension from the reverb is what you're hearing. Thanks for watching!
For further clarification, my intro sketches are nearly always multi-tracked and mixed, sometimes featuring loop beds and other elements across the stereo spectrum so that's a different story, but the sound samples portion is all in mono.
@@AmbientEndeavors Hey thanks for responding! And the clarification. That makes sense. Cheers!
Walrus love to release great sounding ambient pedals in Mono, seriously, mono?
Sheeeeeeeeesh
you're telling me...
It’s beautiful. But damn. W habit and microcosm and Thermae already in possession….hard to justify buying But I’ll probably buy it. 😂. It does sound reeeaaally good
omg what in the hell is that guitar its fucking beautiful
that's the Harmony Silhouette w/ Bigsby and it's GREAT.
@@AmbientEndeavors I dunno about the pedal, but the harmony and the musicmaster are nice bro
I have the WET is it redundant to get a Boss Rv5 or a Mr Black Bloodmoon?
a little. although WET is one of my all time favorite reverb sounds. Bloodmoon might get close. WET just is voiced so beautifully for lush ambient sounds. If you don't need them all, maybe swap the one you like less and try a WET or an older Immerse.
I have like 5 expensive reverb pedals and normally I end up just using the Wet setting on the Reverberator, it sounds like a studio Reverb.
It makes such a specific sound that to me it makes this a ambient only pedal. Which is a shame, returning mine because I think a normal delay like the canyon is cheaper and more suited to rock/blues and metal playing.
hi, sorry to bother you, do you use some tipe of scale? how do you studyambient music?
working up a video as sort of an "intro to ambient guitar" writing and composition, hang tight!
They gotta stop releasing pedals every month lol
hahaha I hear ya.
For real im going broke 😂
Dudes are KILLING me!😂
Especially if they are crappy like everything walrus puts out
@@iosifkalpaktsoglou2045I think you are in the minority opinion on that one :/
How does it compare to the Red Panda Particle?
I haven't done a side-by-side compare, but they're in the same vein for sure. This essentially has two delay lines and I *think* particle just has one going, but don't quote me on that.
Not so sure about the price friendly entrance point for new granular users. It’s the same as fabrikat, tensor, CT5 is under 200 (!), even mood is just over 300!
I don't think I said "price-friendly". My point was it presents 5 unique takes on granular sounds while being relatively user-friendly, making it a nice introduction to players that maybe don't want to go down a rabbit hole of obscure granular effects but want a nice cross-section of sounds. Fabrikat is perhaps a fair comparison, but Tensor, Ct5, and Mood are completely different animals in my opinion.
It's showing as $299, the same as the Tensor I just bought, and less expensive than other granular like the Microcosm. Those other pedals are different types of effects.
man...WHY ISN'T THIS STEREO???
My biggest beef with Walrus. Slo is mono. Lore is mono. Now this. And they market them as “ambient” pedals. Shows how far out of touch this company is with ambient guitarists. Maybe Strymon or Neunaber’s can outdo them on this effect.
@@jasonhudson73 I know that the majority of players run mono. i get that.
but why not add the option for stereo? so many other pedal makers, themselves included, do this.
@@joshuabenton3785 Agreed since the R1 and D1 sound beautiful in stereo, I’m sure this one would also.
It’s much more complex than just “adding an option” and likely they were wanting to hit a price point that’s more accessible. I love a good stereo effect too, but I’m also stretching to think of a stereo granular pedal that isn’t like $450 with tons more features?
@@AmbientEndeavors don’t bother making something this good if you’re gonna cut corners, people will pay if it’s worth it
Is there a difference between the lore and fable?
yep! Fable is a granular synthesis type effect, Lore is a reverse delay style effect. There are some similarities in the textures you can produce, but different effects altogether. Here's a video I did on the Lore if you're interested - ua-cam.com/video/6gMDujqxRLI/v-deo.html
@@AmbientEndeavors Thank you! Appreciate it. I'll check it out. Do you have a favorite out of the two?
I would prefer they not put those peculiar graphics on all of their pedals. I know it’s probably stupid and nitpicky, but it just is not appealing to me. It’s something you’re gonna look at a lot too so, that’s a negative. I have a couple friends who love it. I don’t.
I do like almost all of their pedals.
totally, pedal art is so subjective. I like how Walrus chooses themes and stays pretty consistent within those themes/series...but I get that folks might be hot or cold on the actual art.
@@AmbientEndeavors there’s no denying the quality and uniqueness of the pedals. They are great.
i have a feeling that your favorite effect is the one by whoever just paid you.
Hey thanks for leaving this comment. What did YOU think about the pedal? Did you like the sounds? Some people don’t like the graphic (I’m not a huge fan of it either to be honest) or that it’s not stereo (doesn’t bug me that much, I can throw a delay or reverb after it, but I can see the complaint.) The title is alluding to the fact that granular pedals as a category are my favorite, and Walrus just released one. I happen to think it’s a really fun and solid pedal - but don’t believe I ever said it was my “favorite pedal” in the video. But hey I guess the beauty of this whole thing is you get to believe what you want. Regardless, thanks for watching ✌🏼
$300 for a mono pedal. Pass.
Would you pay $399 for it in stereo ?
@@AmbientEndeavors Most definitely. I’ve paid more than that for Strymon stereo units. Love the e concept that Walrus does but mono is useless to me since I record and don’t gig
Beautiful sound. Terrible graphics.