Qu-Bit Mojave: Granular sandstorms pulled from vast swathes of desert
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Mojave is a swirl of live granular processing with a sound design palette that places each microscopic grain into a compositional context. Prepare yourself for some landscapes of sonic beauty.
Mojave
Named after the deserts of the American Southwest, Qu-Bit is leaning heavily into concepts of sand and landscapes for its granular processor. We’re talking about dune fields of sound, sonic rainfall, and environmental microsounds of dust-filled explorations and such like. Personally, I find it all rather thrilling. Some Qu-Bit modules can embed themselves deeply into your everyday modular soundscape, while others can be completely baffling. It’s difficult to know at first glance which way it’s going to go.
Mojave is an evolution of the Nebulae granular looper but goes all-in on the manipulation. The fundamentals are all in place with the generation of grains, the sizing and shaping pulled from sampling the input; what sets Mojave apart is the baked-in Qu-Bit weirdness. Mojave brandishes a stochastic event generator, enabling it to discover feedback-driven textures of glitch, granular delays and time-bending scrubs. The Distribute knob will flirt with rhythmic displacement; the Structure knob plays with pitch within a defined system. Meanwhile, Drift and Whirl massage the stereo field to push out into the epic and cinematic.
Qu-Bit Mojave
DSP Platform
The module is based on the same DSP platform as the Nautilus and has a very similar front end. This includes access to the Narwhal editor for deep configurations and explorations of Mojave’s different modes. A nice touch is the built-in microphone for instant grain creation from any nearby sound source. The curious Dune output released voltage based on the result of the environmental conditions within the module. What could that mean? Like many things from Qu-Bit, the press release rarely does them justice, and in order to get a sense of anything, we need to spend time absorbing the videos.
Thankfully, we have Jeremy from Red Means Recording to guide us through (below).
Availability
Mojave is fascinating and granular has gotten really interesting in modular lately. There’s some stiff competition from the Instruo Arbhar and the This is Not Rocket Science Brinta, but I get the feeling Qu-Bit are all over this. Mojave is available now for $399.
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- Qu-Bit Mojave: Qu-Bit
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