Butterfly Effects Dobbo Granular FX Pedal

When pedals are hard to put into any true category or genre, you know you’re in for a real treat. When someone asks you to describe these types of effects, and your mind fills with so many different options, some of which you might not even understand, you know you have a real innovative creation at your fingertips. Such is the case with today’s wild, experimental and thought-provoking pedal, the Dobbo Granular FX from Butterfly Effects. As it really is difficult to put into words, let’s see what the creators have to say about this ingenious sonic machine…

Welcome to Dobbo: Butterfly Effects’ first habitat, made for playful discovery. Dive into lush clouds or listen to rhythmic crystals forming. Dobbo is a granular effect that takes small bits of sound and rearranges them. It can stretch, pitch and blur the bits, or transform them into rhythmic textures. What makes this one special is that you can decide to let it take control. Based on chance, Dobbo finds infinitely new and exciting ways to interact with your sound. It’s a creative partner with endless surprises up its sleeve.

At its core, Dobbo is a granular effect that constantly records your playing and uses this iterative capture to create captivating rearrangements of sound. With a versatile range of controls, Dobbo lets you stretch and repitch sounds, send them into rhythmic sputters, and create infinite textures from momentary impulses. Beyond these intentional interventions, Dobbo invites chance as an operator of sonic discovery and divination, providing a perfect partner for playful improvisation.

Granular effect pedal

Constantly captures audio in a 5 second buffer for immediate manipulation

Rate sets speed at which grains are triggered, with synchronized time divisions in tap tempo or MIDI clock modes

Time sets delay time of grains up to 5 seconds

Size sets size of grains from 10ms to 1 second

Pitch sets pitch of grains with tape-like re-pitching

Mix sets blend of input and granular signals

Space adds stereo panning to grains and reverb for spatial sound

Forward, ping-pong, and reverse grain playback

Pitch can be set with smooth, stepped, or octave-only modes

Grain envelope modes for percussive or textural sound design

Chance control adds random modulation to Rate, Time, Size, and Pitch with independent depths

Tap tempo footswitch

Hold mode temporarily freezes audio stored in Dobbo’s buffer

Expression pedal or MIDI external control

8 preset slots for storing and recalling settings

The looooong demo video I made shows you a smidgen of what the Dobbo Granular FX Pedal contains, and what it’s capable of doing. It’s one of the lengthiest demos I’ve ever done, and I try to show off a portion of the auditory prowess this unit can produce, twisting knobs and flipping switches until odd, crazy and unique sounds coming pouring out. The creativity this thing sparks and the new sounds it can produce are truly revolutionary – I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do! Be sure to grab your headphones before you watch, ’cause this thing sounds INCREDIBLE IN STEREO. Check out the Butterfly Effects website for ordering and more info, too – if you want to know kinda what you’re getting into with Dobbo, take a read through the manual, too – it’s a mere 27 pages long… 🙂 Cheers!!