{"product_id":"rainger-fx-minidrone-incl-igor","title":"RAINGER FX MINIDRONE SYNTHESIZER PEDAL","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"ProductItem-details-title\" data-content-field=\"title\" data-test=\"pdp-title\"\u003eMinidrone (incl. 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It’s really fun to play over, and is a great foundation for improvisation, songwriting and dramatic live performance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIt’s a deep and huge analogue synth, with modulation, made of up to three low-pitched triangle-wave oscillators mixed together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eTwo of these oscillators are always in unison whatever the pitch - this is Drone 1 - though very slightly out-of-tune with each other. This creates ‘beats’ between them, a slow, wide-band modulation that keeps the drone very listenable. The pitch is controlled by ‘Pitch1’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAdd in the other tone generator - Drone2 - and you can make any kind of musical interval between the drones; major and minor thirds, a fifth, octaves, or thick unison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAnd all points in between - including tasty discordant chords, modulating fast and strangely…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eDrone1 and Drone2 are fully independently tuneable - with sweepable knobs - by tuner, or by ear (low volume is recommended for accuracy), with a range of approximately two octaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIgor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIt comes with an Igor controller - a small pressure sensitive pad - which, when pressed, drops the overall pitch down a tone (two frets), rising back up on release. This creates a darkly atmospheric starting point for writing songs, riffs, or improvising…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePress the ‘1\/2Tone’ switch and this drop-down becomes only a semitone. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThese two drop-down options actually make the pedal work in every kind of musical mode - dark and sinister, or happy up-beat ones, weird minor ones, blissed-out ones… the Minidrone is very musical and inspiring to play over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLow end\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThere’s tons of bass - 70Hz down to 30Hz (approximately) is the fundamental note from Drone1, which has chorusing harmonics, but with Drone2 added there’s all kinds of tones and ‘beats’; the sound is deep and electro…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIt’s like hitting a low note on some big-ass old synth (Korg MS-20? 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