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We have the enclosures for the first production run.  All of the components are here, and circuit boards being assembled (control board in Taiwan, main board in metro Detroit).  While we wai…

Join us June 17-18 at the Portland Synth & Pedal Expo.  It's a free show where you can try our pedals in a quiet, headphone-only room and ask questions.  Bring your own guitar or use one…

The new Cinematic Ambient preset pack takes advantage of Particle firmware 2.2 random grain panning, pitch quantization, and feedback.  Available on our website or patchstorage.com.Demo…

Miles Away explains granular synthesis and granular delay in this great tutorial and demo, using Logic Alchemy and Particle 2 with examples of the new features in firmware version 2.2.…

Tensor firmware 1.2.3 is available for download.  This is a small update that adds improved MIDI control for the Tensor's loop sampler functions, fixes a volume boost while overdubbing, and…

Within a few months of releasing the first batch, we began hearing from artists who were taking the Particle on the road. (Read more about the development and building the first batch in parts&nb…

Particle 2 OG is a limited edition Particle 2 colorway in ghost black / orange / gray.  The graphics from the original 25 Particles built in 2011, combined with the popular ghost black translucen…

In January, 2011, I had a working Particle prototype that did freeze, stutter, random, reverse, and pitch shifted delays - most of the effects now associated with granular delay pedals. I initially d…

Red Panda started in 2009 with a list of 60 pedals I wanted to make, with a granular synthesis pedal on top of the list. I ended up doing a bitcrusher and octave/suboctave generator first, but starte…