MIME II - should we use AI to create beauty?
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- MIME II
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Mímir (or Mime), renowned for his knowledge and wisdom was beheaded during the Æsir-Vanir War. Odin picked up his severed head and would use it for councel, as a sort of oracle. In the early 2020s man created a new sort of oracle for himself despite of all its potential dangers.
MIME was an experiment in using the then-novel and now very controversial early artificial intelligence chatbot systems to create something potentially useful in the pedal realm. Countless hours of nudging and tweaking eventually created a pretty harsh, but interesting reverb algorithm and after adding analogue feedback and mix controls, MIME was born. To further explore this domain we also created a warm and dark reverb with a dynamic engine around it, using nothing but our good old fashioned human brains, but never told anybody which of the algorithms was actually made by us and which was generated by the AI.
It was a sort of battle between man and machine in the curious form of a reverb pedal.
We have never created a more controversial product.
The second iteration of MIME refines both of the original algorithms and adds a third, chirpy, quacky spring reverb to go along with it. The AI generated section has been greatly altered, essentially seeing man reclaim from the machine, what was previously his, I suppose.
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This is awesome
I love my Mime I! Picked it up about a month ago on Reverb! What I always heard in my head for reverb! Paired it with the Loke and was in heaven! Wish I knew there was a V2!
Just bought Mime II on Little Box. Can’t wait to stack Mime I into it!
Haha that’s glorious!
Sounds beautiful! Love my MIME I! Both modes!
I believe the pursuit of beauty is more than just a human endeavor, it is a basic human need. This very human need is the only reason any machine anywhere exists with any inkling of that endeavor, and its only there because a human seeking beauty on some level caused it to be there. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" -almost cliche but that doesnt mean it has any less truth.
Sounds about right!
What overdrive are you using? LOVE IT!
That’s just a fuzz pedal. I haven’t released it yet, actually!
Just take my money.