Hologram Electronics Microcosm Performance Rear panel jacks consist of a single mono/stereo TRS 1/4-inch input, left/mono and right 1/4-inch outputs, 1/4-inch expression pedal input, full-size five-pin DIN MIDI In and MIDI out/thru and a standard 9VDC center negative power input for the provided adapter. The three footswitches control tap tempo, bypass and hold/sampler in regular effects mode and record/play/dub, activate looper and stop/erase functions when the looper is engaged.
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There’s a 60-second phrase looper with pre-FX, looper only, burst and quantize modes plus a reverse button that instantly plays your loops backwards. Parameter adjustments are made via eight knobs at the upper left, consisting of Activity, Shape, Filter, Mix, Time, Repeats, Space and Loop Level controls. Whereas most stompboxes provide effects that are like frosting on a cake, the Hologram Microcosm is an entire instrument that’s more like the cake itselfĮach of the 11 effects has four preset variations to provide a total of 44 presets plus 16 user programmable presets.
When Hologram says that the Microcosm generates new sounds, the company is not kidding: this unit offers effects that are truly unlike anything else out there. The Microcosm is Hologram’s latest offering, described as a “granular effects pedal” that employs delay, looping, pitch shifting and sampling as well as reverb, modulation and filtering to generate truly fascinating tones, textures and rhythmic patterns.
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Hologram is part of this new breed of boutique builder, founded in 2015 by Jason Campbell and Ryan Schaefer, who have backgrounds in engineering and software design but are also musicians. However, recently the boutique pedal realm has undergone a renaissance of sorts where a growing number of smaller companies are developing some truly cutting-edge stompboxes with intensely progressive technology and features.
Sophisticated, high-tech effects were the domain of bigger companies with bigger budgets and armies of engineers, which led to some stellar innovations that unfortunately often lacked the personality and quirk that comes from more individual creativity.
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