BallRoomX Kinetic FX Ball Looper
Rooming loops & FX
- • BallRoom plus FX cannons that infect your loops
- • 10 motion-linked effects with contagion
- • Gravity, flow, ball size and collision functions
BallRoomX is BallRoom with everything turned up.
It has the full BallRoom: six balls that record your audio and play it back in loops at the speed they move, a centre arena with function walls, a ring of cells that change speed, direction and pitch, and eight doors that open by hand, at random or by CV.
Then come the FX cannons. Three cannons in the corners of the arena fire effect balls into the room. When an effect ball touches a loop ball, that loop is infected: it plays through the effect for a time you set, from half a second to permanently, and a ring of dots around the ball shows how long is left. Choose from ten effects (drive, wavefolder, bitcrusher, granular, stutter, comb filter, ring modulator, resonant sweep, echo and chop), each one linked to the motion of the ball it is on. Faster balls drive harder, the sweep follows the ball’s height, the echo follows the time between wall hits, the stutter grabs a new slice at every bounce. Switch on CONTAGION and infected balls pass their effects to the balls they hit, so outbreaks spread through the room and fade out on their own.
Bend the physics too. Give the balls gravity, change their size, set their launch aim and spread, add a current that sweeps them around the ring, apply a function to every ball-to-ball collision, and give each wall a chance of firing. Four new wall functions (Bump, Damp, Cure and Kick), selectable pitch-cell intervals, keep-or-restore behaviour for each strip and an adjustable door width complete the set.
BallRoomX is a looper, an effects playground and a generative arranger in a single device.
Part of the Room Loopers Bundle
BallRoomX is also available in the Room Loopers Bundle, together with Ballooper and BallRoom: three kinetic loopers for the price of one.