Enterprising and adventerous musicians everywhere are drooling…
The OWL is an open source, open hardware, reprogrammable effects pedal designed for musicians, coders, and hackers.
With a little bit of C++ hackery the OWL can be made to sound like just about anything. This is music hardware for the serious music hacker.
The campaign was launched by Rebel Technologies, a London-based tech collective with a handful of products already on the market.
The really interesting thing about this project is the fact that it is open source. Because of this unique feature, people from around the world are free to create their own patches and share them at will. With a bit of work multiple effects can also be loaded onto the pedal. It ends up being a very configurable package. There is even a stretch goal to allow other types of pedals to piggyback on the OWL, and it’s already been reached.
As far as testing your sounds, the Rebel Technology team has backers covered there, too…
We developed a C++ project called the Owl Simulator (OwlSim), that makes it easy to test your patch. The OwlSim uses the Juce library and is cross-platform (Mac / Windows / Linux). Put your patch in the OwlSim and you will be able to run it as a VST/VSTi/AU in your favorite DAW (Reaper, Logic, Live, Nuendo, Ardour…). The OwlSim allows easy testing, debugging, or just being able to run your favorite patches on your computer for a home studio session!
The OWL can currently be preordered for £195, but there is a limited supply at that price. £210 gets one shipped to the USA. Delivery is expected by the end of 2013.
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