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Jan. 26th, 2010 - Happy New Year and thanks for your support in 2009. I'm once again running Lightfoot Labs fulltime, hopefully permanently this time. New goatkeepers with diecast enclosure and new circuitboards are still a few months off, but I'm trying to get them out as soon as possible. New pedal and two new eurorack synth modules in development, for release later in the year. Also have a prototype GK2 pedal up on ebay here: ebay auction. All of the final sale price goes to Partners in Health.
Jul. 30th, 2009 - GK2s at Analogue Haven sold out in an hour this time. If you're in Japan, there is a chance 2ndStaff might have a couple left. Other than that, that's it for this run of the GK2. I'll be starting another run of Goatkeepers later in the year and hopefully also release a new design or two. The GK3 will be the same as the GK2, except in a slightly larger, but lighter weight diecast enclosure. Thank you for your support.
Jul. 12th, 2009 - GK2s will be on sale at Analogue Haven at 6:30PM Pacific time, Monday the 13th (tomorrow). Sorry for the short notice.
Jun. 19th, 2009 - Crush the Button has received their order of 20 GK2's. I believe most of their stock was preordered, but as of right now they appear to have 4 left in stock. In the next few days I'm going to be shipping an order to 2ndStaff in Japan. After that I'll be getting Analogue Haven's second order ready to ship in around 2-3 weeks.
Jun. 1st, 2009 - Yudy Chen has a nice review of the GK2 up at glitchathon with demo videos. He also has the GK audio samples with descriptions in a much easier to read format here and a review of the 4ms Atoner.
May 31st, 2009 - Away from production for a little while, but getting back on track now. Should be shipping some GK2's to 2nd Staff and Crush the Button a week from now. Added a dealers page.
Apr. 14th, 2009 - GK2s were delivered yesterday and sold out 2 hours later. I knew they wouldn't be collecting dust on the shelves, but this was very unexpected. Looking at adding a European dealer to receive a portion of the next 50. Thanks to everyone for your support and watch for more details in a couple weeks.
Apr. 11th, 2009 - 50 GK2s are built up, tested and will be delivered to analoguehaven.com in the next few days. Price is $340 US. Download the user's guide.
Mar. 28th, 2009 - GK2 is in production now. Boards are finished, pots need soldering, final assembly and testing needs to be done. Availability should be 2 weeks. Click here for alternate view.
Goatkeeper 2 (click for original GK overview) is an advanced tremolo effect with two major pieces: the analog Voltage Controlled Amplifier (VCA) section and the digital Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO) section. The VCA is simlar to one that would be found in an analog synthesizer and simply varies the amplitude of the audio with the LFO signal as the control. The digital LFO is what makes Goatkeeper unique. It has eleven waveforms with five having the capability of being generated by the Wave Shaping function. Waveshapes/waveforms are constructed using the Depth/Wave knob to record the amplitude level over a period of up to six seconds. Goatkeeper's expression/CV input can also be used as the source for waveshape recording. A four step sequencer multiplies the LFO's rate by either 1,2,3,4,5,6,8, or 16. A step can also be set to Full amplitude or Minimum Amplitude. LFO rate is set by tap tempo (requiring two or more taps), the expression/CV input, or external sync input.
Huge thanks to Yudy Chen (Click for sample descriptions) for these recordings.
Note these are clips from the original Goatkeeper.
planet_telex.mp3
2_stage_stutter.mp3
pinched.mp3
ramped_up_rambling.mp3
screechingswells.mp3
fuzz_pitched.mp3
ultra_short_staccatto.mp3
tremsample1.mp3
tremsample2.mp3
trem-doom.mp3
trem-harmony.mp3
