Walrus Audio Fable Granular Soundscape Generator Pedal Overview
With its granular sampling algorithms and unique delay programs, the Walrus Audio Fable offers endless possibilities for creating unique and rich soundscapes.
The Walrus Audio Fable Granular Soundscape Generator Pedal is a unique addition to Walrus Audio’s “storybook adventure/soundscape generator” range. Following the success of Lore, the Fable is an effects pedal that offers a variety of features to help musicians create bizarrely beautiful networks of sampled and resampled sounds. It is perfect for guitarists who love experimenting with different effects to create unique soundscapes.
Fable’s Mystical Power
The Fable’s powerful dual DSP architecture combines delay programs in series with granular sampling algorithms. The pedal features five all-new programs centred around the sample and chops delay algorithms to create unusual soundscapes. From smooth, flowing ambience to bizarre, organic reverberance, and chaotic, glitchy swarms, the Fable offers musicians the opportunity to create rich soundscapes with ease.
Granular Sampling Techniques
The Fable’s granular effect is a digital processing technique of micro-sampling, where short samples called grains are read from a delay buffer. In the Fable, musicians can adjust these grains by manipulating their sampling length, position, and buffer size from which they’re read. They can be played at double or half speed for pitch shift and time stretching effects, played in reverse, read from multiple positions, and more, to achieve different effects.
Explore The Programs
Walrus Audio has created five streamlined programs in the Fable that explore different aspects of its sonic range. Program 1 runs a reverse delay into a reverse granular algorithm, in which sampled grains are played backwards. Program 2 runs a forward delay into an octave-up granular program, in which sampled grains are played at double speed. Program 3 runs a warm, dark analogue-style delay into an octave-down granular program, in which sampled grains are played back at half speed. Program 4 runs two multi-tap granular algorithms in series, and program 5 runs a forward delay into a randomized pitch granular program.
Slate Gray Aesthetic
The Fable comes coated in a slate grey enclosure with white, black, cream, red, and orange ink with art by David Hüttner. The die-cast enclosure’s exact size is 3.62” x 4.79” x 2.25” including knobs. The pedal offers buffered bypass and requires 9VDC, centre negative (300mA minimum) power supply. The use of an isolated power supply is recommended for powering all Walrus Audio Pedals.
- Granular soundscape generator
- Unique soundscapes ranging from smooth ambience to bizarre reverberance to chaotic glitchy swarms
- Powerful dual DSP architecture with individual feedback paths
- Combine delay programs in series with granular sampling algorithms
- 5 programs centred around sample and chop delay algorithms
- Program 1: Reverse Delay into Reverse Granular
- Program 2: Forward Delay into Octave Up Granular
- Program 3: Analog Delay into Octave Down Granular
- Program 4: Multi-Tap Granular into Multi-Tap Granular (Grain-Verb)
- Program 5: Forward Delay into Randomized Pitch Granular
- Manipulate sampling length, position and buffer size of grains (short samples)
- Play grains at double- or half-speed, reverse or from multiple positions to achieve different effects
- Tap Tempo switch
- Top-mounted Input and Output
- Coated in a slate grey enclosure with white, black, cream, red, and orange ink
- 9-volt DC, Centre Negative, 300mA minimum
- Buffered bypass
- Power supply not included.
- Designed and assembled in USA
