A mysterious & resonant artifact found on the surface of a distant moon. Euphonic wonders await…
what it does
Everything on one stone
Three sounds at once*
Each row of lights is a sound. Run them one into the next, or side by side.
Two states of everything
Set every knob twice. Stand on MORPH and the whole pedal glides from one to the other.
A speed for every row
The delay can take its time getting there while the drive jumps straight away.
Expression pedal
Plug one into EXPR and rock between the two states with your foot.
Tap tempo
Tap WARP a few times and the delays and modulation lock to you. The lights flash white on the beat.
Motion
Record yourself turning a knob and the stone keeps turning it, round and round.
Nine lights, no screen
Delays are green, reverbs blue, drives orange, so you can read the whole chain from across the stage.
Every sound has a sigil
Pick a sound and the lights play its own short pattern, so you know which one you've landed on.
81 presets, named
Nine banks of nine. Stand on both switches to save.
Stereo out
Mono in, stereo out, and true bypass on relays.
Hackable
There are more sounds in it than the ones on show. You have to find those.
Finished by hand
Every body is printed, wet sanded and waxed by hand, so each one comes out a little different.
* Some sounds are big enough that not every three fit together; the stone only offers the ones that do.
where it came from
From the deck: the two cards behind the first.
the stone
Three sounds, nine lights, two feet
The moonstone plays three sounds at once*, one into the next, the way three pedals would sit on a board. Each row of lights is one of them, top to bottom, in the order your guitar meets them.
Three knobs, X, Y and Z, reach every control of the row you're on: turn one alone, or hold another while you turn. Nine controls to a sound, and no menu to find them in.
The two feet are MORPH and WARP. WARP taps the tempo and opens your presets. MORPH, on the left, is where the stone is unlike anything else on your board.
* Some sounds are big enough that not every three fit together; the stone only offers the ones that do.
the morph
Two states, and a foot between them
Every sound on the stone keeps two settings of all its controls. The first is what you hear when you plug in. Stand on MORPH and the whole chain travels to the second. Lift your foot and it travels home.
Each row travels at its own speed, so a delay can drift slowly into its second state while the drive above it gets there at once. You hear the way between them, not a jump.
To shape the second state, stand on MORPH and turn the knobs: you're changing it while you listen to it. Tap MORPH twice and the stone stays there, drawing a magenta ring every few seconds so you know. Tap twice again to come home.
hold the foot · tap it twice to stay
expression
Or rock it with your foot
Plug an expression pedal into EXPR, on the right side, and it does the morph for you. Rock back for the first state, forward for the second, and stop wherever it sounds best.
MORPH still works with it plugged in. Double tap it and the stone stays in its second state whatever your foot does. Double tap again and the pedal takes over from where it is.
light
No screen. Nine lights.
Everything the stone has to tell you, it tells you in light. There's no screen to read and no menu to learn: once you know what the colours mean, you can read the stone from across a dark stage.
Each sound also has a sigil: a one-second figure of light that belongs to it and to no other sound. Choose a sound and it plays its sigil. After a while you know your sounds by their sigils before you hear them.
Plug the stone into your computer and the editor shows the same nine lights, frame for frame, with every control named and every preset in reach. Close the laptop and the stone carries on as it was.
the sounds
The sounds it shows you
Delays are green, reverbs blue, modulation purple, drives orange, pitch red. Each sound is a card: tap one to turn it over and see its nine controls.
Not everything on this moon has been found.
made by hand
No two are the same
The stone isn't moulded. Each body is printed, about eight hours on the printer, then sanded wet by hand from 400 to 600 grit and polished with beeswax. There's no paint on it: what you hold is the printed stone itself, smoothed and waxed.
Because hands do the work, every one comes out a little different. You may find a faint layer line, or a softer edge where the paper went round a corner. Please don't expect a factory finish. Expect one that someone made.
inside
The same code, wherever it plays
Inside is a Daisy Seed: a 480 MHz Arm processor that runs every sound at 48 kHz, thirty-two samples at a time. The editor on your computer runs the very same code, so what you hear there is what the stone plays.
The first run is coming
Leave your name and we'll write when yours can be made.