Cosmodio Instruments Splinter Twin Time Modulator

We’ve got another magical creation from our friends at Cosmodio Instruments for you all today, and, as usual, this one pulls out all the stops. Continuing their blistering reign on the unlikely and unusual, the Splinter Twin Time Modulator takes everything up a notch, then pushes it right over the sonic cliff, resulting in yet another unruly, impressive and downright fun effects pedal. Hold onto your hats, or capes, or robes, or magic 8 ball, or wand, or outer space vehicle – it’s about to get CRAZY…

The Splinter Twin Time Modulator is your sonic familiar. It clones your signal, alters that clone in time, pitch, texture, phase and feedback, and then re-combines the altered clone with your original signal to create something altogether new. Functionally, Splinter Twin is a time modulation workstation. A musical sandbox that lets you manipulate delay lines in highly flexible, extremely precise, and sometimes unusual ways.

Time modulation and short delay lines are the basic building blocks of many widely used and timeless effects: phase offset, flanger, chorus, vibrato, doubling and of course, echo/delay. Splinter Twin achieves all of these and more. But it is not a multi-effect. Rather, it lets you modelessly move within, around and between these iconic sounds, and then invites you to push beyond them to discover many more exotic, hybrid, novel and experimental effects. Through-zero phase cancellation, randomized poly-chorus ensembles, glissando warbling self-oscillation, stochastic time jumps and pitched resonators are all among the endless possibilities.

Splinter Twin’s hybrid architecture allows it to wield both extraordinary power and a rich musical character. It delays your signal a maximum of 340ms and a minimum of 0ms, fluidly traversing the entire spectrum of time-based effects. As you shorten the delay time, it moves seamlessly from spacious echoes, through the shifting territory of phase and comb textures, all the way down to absolute zero — an instantaneous double — locked in perfect alignment with your dry signal. Very few pedals reach this point, and fewer still with this kind of smooth, musical continuity. Add in creative modulation options and performative feedback controls, and you have a staggering range of sonic possibilities.

The Splinter Twin’s all-analog preamp, feedback paths, tone shaping, and mixing circuits keep every sound — whether pristine, saturated, bright, or dark — rooted in unmistakable analog soul. The boundaries are so broad and the controls are so responsive that you will certainly find sounds that neither you, nor us, nor anyone else in this dimension has ever heard before. It’s always a blast having some Cosmodio Instruments gear to experiment with – thanks as always to those guys for sending the Splinter Twin my way. More info and ordering on their website, plus our demo video over on YouTube – don’t sleep on this one!!