Red Panda Particle V2...

BintyTwanger77

Anyone heard any more news on this, on a grapevine or otherwise, release dates, etc?

This is one that is etched in stone as one to add to the board, now that my V1 is sold.

From Red Panda:

New in Particle Version 2 (subject to change):

• Stereo in/out (TRS)
• 1.8 second delay time
• Soft touch footswitches
• Freeze footswitch
• Tap tempo with divisions
• Assignable expression pedal
• USB MIDI and firmware updates
• Additional parameters via MIDI
• Presets (4 on front, 128 via MIDI)
• Smoother pitch shifting
• Higher sampling rate
• Higher headroom, lower noise
• Smaller enclosure (3” x 4.6”)

Especially interested in the presets element, the smoother pitch-shifting....well everything about it really.

meltedbuzzbox

owww interesting
TGP might be worth a look?

VJIves

RP said July initially, so far I haven't even been able to find a photo. 

tweaknoob

I've been trying to find updates since the announcement. No news

BintyTwanger77

Taken from RP’s Facebook page. I think the unpainted silver one second from the right, bottom row, might be a V2 prototype. The 4 LEDs may be for the 4 presets available on the front: https://imgur.com/gallery/03SZB3s

VJIves

Makes sense, it's in the new Tensor-size enclosure too. Exciting!

BintyTwanger77

VJIves said:

Makes sense, it's in the new Tensor-size enclosure too. Exciting!

It really is! Did have a thought: whether the smoother pitch-shifting mode will have parameters whereby you can set the note intervals, like the Thermae.

tweaknoob

They said a month or so ago that there was going to be a prototype at a guitar show in New York but I couldn't find any evidence of this happening.

More controllable pitch shifting would be great. Also there's a setting I really like on the delay LFO mode where you can get a pulsating drone type sound. Curious if it'll be easier to dial in the pitch to the key you're playing in.

tweaknoob

Asked Red Panda for an update earlier. End of July has been pushed out a bit, I'm sure it'll be worth the wait though:

'The Particle V2 will be out by the end of the year, we will be sure to keep everybody updated on demos and preorders when we are ready and they are available. Thank you for your interest, we are really looking forward to getting this into musicians hands.'

VJIves

They had to do a whole bunch of updates to the Tensor in the weeks following that pedal being released, I imagine that ate into Particle 2 time.

tweaknoob

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5k6WivAqL48 First demo