Kastle 2 FX Wizard

The Kastle 2 FX WIZARD is a compact, patchable stereo multi-effects unit that empowers you to explore the limits of sound processing through modulation and modularity. Use simple yet refined stereo effects, or go nuts with modulation and immerse in powerful glitch and sound design heaven. Instead of navigating thru preset effects, you can craft your own unique effects with dynamic behavior using modulation. The FX WIZARD embraces happy accidents, sparking excitement with unexpected and unheard sonic transformations.

There are three loose main categories of effects, each offering both finely controlled parameters and exciting extremes that you wouldn’t typically find elsewhere:

• DELAY FX family (blue/green): Includes a clean stereo delay, a flanger with stereo chorus capabilities and some spicy extremes, and a freezer to capture and hold moments of time in a fun modular way.
• AMPLITUDE FX family (bright colors): Features an autopanner with ring modulation possibilities, a crunchy digital crusher with powerful feedback, and a rhythmic slicer that can create dynamic transients from any drone.
• PITCH-SHIFTING FX family (red colors): Contains a dirty pitcher that shifts signals up in either tonal or rhythmic patterns, a fun replayer effect that reverses audio and introduces lots of pitch-shifting artifacts, and last but not least, a nuanced shifter that adjusts the pitch up or down to achieve detuned sounds and feedback pitch slopes.

With modulation and the right FX MODE, the gates to extreme sound design and glitch territory open wide. Effect parameters can be modulated using the built-in LFO or a surprisingly powerful pattern generator. For dynamic effects that respond to incoming audio (hello, ducking), there’s also an envelope follower.

Each effect can widen the STEREO field by detuning some of its core, while the FILTER allows you to brighten or darken the sound. All effects react to triggers or clocks in both predictable and exciting ways.

• 9 FX modes
  — delay (max time in stereo is 1.15s — with 1.1 FW update )
  — flanger
  — freezer
  — panner
  — crusher
  — slicer
  — pitcher
  — replayer
  — shifter
• Stereo audio processing at 44kHz/16-bits
• Time parameter with attenuverting modulation (S&H or free)
• Feedback parameter with attenuverting modulation
• AMOUNT mix with attenuverting modulation
• FILTER in the feedback with Lowpass/Highpass
• STEREO detuning for each FX MODE
• FX MODE cv input with attenuation to change modes with CV
• TRIG input to synchronize effects with tempo
• LFO – triangle and pulse output, reset input, attenuverting modulation, synced or free
• Tempo generator with tap tempo and divider with external clock
• Pattern generator (tempo synced) with GATE and CV output and patch programmability
• patchable envelope follower
• stereo input with input gain (up to +12db), accepts up to 6 Vpp signal
• stereo output capable of driving headphones up to 250 Ohm
• analog sync input
• analog sync output
• USB-C (firmware updates, power)
• 3x AA battery power (both rechargeable and non)
• Power consumption approx. 100-150 mA, should last up to 15-18 hours on 3x AA batteries.