Red Panda Subdivision is an octave divider/subharmonic generator. It creates octave fuzz tones, synth sounds, or just fattens up your signal.

Mix any combination of:

• input signal
• octave up
• octave down
• two octaves down
• third or fifth down

The Subdivision doesn't convert your signal to a square wave or do digital pitch shifting. It's not a digital model of an analog octave fuzz or octave divider. Instead, we thought about the native digital way to accomplish the same effect and developed a new algorithm from scratch. The generated signals are synthetic, but retain the character of your input signal. There is an independent filter for each one, with a single frequency control. A sub tone control makes subtle changes in the harmonics.

Controls

Dry level: off to +12 dB
+1 octave level: off to +12 dB
-1 octave level: off to +12 dB
-2 octave level: off to +12 dB
Subharmonic level: off to +12 dB
Filter

Bypass LED

Suboctave tone (3 positions)
Subharmonic (5th down, 5th below suboctave, 3rd below suboctave)

Samples

Guitar synth (by eti)
Clean > reverb; sd > reverb; sd > chorus > reverb
MP3

Octavia sound (by eti)
sd > echo
MP3

'70s jam sound ( by eti)
fuzz; sd > fuzz
MP3

Subharmonics (by eti)
sd only: 5th below suboctave, 5th below fundamental, 3rd below suboctave, then flipping between them on the last note.
MP3

Drum loop
Ensoniq ASR-X > sd
MP3

Playing tips

The subdivision does not like chords. It prefers neck pickups and clean playing near the middle of the string.

Technical Specs

Generates new signals with the following frequencies:
- One octave up
- One octave down
- Two octaves down
- Subharmonic, one of:

• (_5th) A fifth below one octave down (a just perfect fourth above two octaves down)
• (-5th) A fifth down (a just perfect fourth above one octave down)
• (_3rd) A just major third below one octave down (a just minor sixth above two octaves down)

100 MIPS DSP
Stereo or mono operation
Tap/bypass switch
Requires 90 mA, center negative 9V DC power supply or 9V battery
(we recommend using the Line 6 DC1 power supply)

90 day warranty.

Download the instructions here (PDF).
We also have a patch sheet (PDF) to record your favorite settings.