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Stardust Cosmic Tape Looper
Q-Bit Electronix introduces Stardust — turning to the stars as inspiration for its introduction as a cosmic tape looper that energizes interaction with recorded audio in the Eurorack format.
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
As a stereo recorder and looper, essentially, Stardust is, at its core, capable of capturing (48kHz, 24-bit hardware/32-bit internal) high-fidelity audio — up to 10 minutes maximum (mono)/five minutes maximum (stereo) — and replaying it. Its rock-solid fundamentals notwithstanding, the conditions in which the looper can find itself showcases the ethereal beauty of the module since Stardust can take any recorded sound and reconstruct a new sonic canvas from those original recordings. After all, this technique — known as musique concrète — dates back to the early 1940s, developed by French composer Pierre Schaeffer and his associates as a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material. Melding both old and new forms of sound processing to re-envision what can be done in the recording medium, Stardust builds upon this tape technique.
