This strong frame is a design which simplifies putting Mescaline together. Designed by Arius Blaze and manufactured by a metal shop in Portland, Oregon. Powder coated black and easily assembled with included nuts and bolts.
Working with synth enthusiasts here in town, we're puting together a very thorough outline of how everything works. Patch examples include patches created by Arius Blaze to get the ball rolling and provide an understanding of some good ways to meditate on Mescaline.
Expect more sound to be added.
Worth noting is that no external effects or processing have been used. These are straight recordings into the mixer, flaws and all.
The possibilities are vast so bringing you fresh sound is a task best not stuffed into a day or two. We'll be exploring here and sharing things we discover as the weeks progress.
Via soundcloud:
added 3/27 This is Channel alone, playing through the internal reverb. Live recording, no external processing:
https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/sounds-of-folktek-mescaline-3-the-soft-pretty-ambient-reverbed-channel
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added 3/26 At play with little clicky beats. Single sequence, live recording, no external processing:
https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/the-sounds-of-folktek-mescaline-2
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added 3/25 This one in particular explores more of the synthesis of Channel and toys with the clock divisions of the Motion sequencers. Live recording, no external processing:
https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/folktek-mecaline-straight-live-recording
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New sounds will also be posted to the update page as well. (Soundcloud embedding won't work on indiegogo.)
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Why Here?
These are expensive boards to create. By pre-ordering, you're helping Folktek make it a reality for you. And you get it first. First run, before dealers and before anyone else and you're essentially getting it lower than wholesale.
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What you get?
What do you want? You can order each board individually, get a couple boards that you like to go into your system or get the entire system with the metal enclosure. Up to you.
An entire system gets all of the parts and bits and pieces and nuts and bolts to make it all work, plenty of dupont patch cables, a small pack of components like resistors and capacitors, 12v power adapter (wall wart), the nicely printed manual and we'll probably throw in something special as a thank you. You'll need to put it together yourself...but it couldn't be simpler. You can even just hand screw, so no tools required.
We've also gone to great detail to include a manual for each module if purchased individually. If you're not ordering the complete system, the complete Mescaline system manual will not be included.
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When you get it?
Having gone through this Indiegogo system before, we have a better understanding of the *actual* timeline to completion and from past experience (Conduit on Indiegogo). We're laying it out here and adding a week here and there because you just never know what will get held up for a minute. From our understanding it works roughly like this:
Indiegogo campaign: 2 weeks (starting 3/22/2017)
Payment completion (when we actually get the money to beging ordering things): 3 weeks
Manufacturing (circuit boards, components, metal work, manuals, boxes): 6-10 weeks
Testing, cleaning, boxing: 1-2 weeks
Shipping (in the order in which orders were received): 1-2 weeks
So from the time this campaign ends, to the time we ship is 11-17 weeks. That's an estimate - any number of those things could go faster or could take a hair longer, but we've made it a point to give the long estimate for a reason.
That puts our estimated ship date between June and mid-August.
If you're not into paying and waiting, we completely understand but we ask that if you do proceed, please have patience. We'll post updates as there's something to update about. If you'd rather wait to see these things in the hands of others we encourage it, but we cannot offer this campaign price beyond the campaign.
You WILL get your mescaline or modules and we WILL put 100% of our energy into not only getting them finished and out to you asap, but also putting love into the package and making things especially nice.