About the ‘Desintegration loop’ Touch Mode. From the description I understood the recorded loop disintegrates a bit more with each repeat (inspired by the Desintegration Loops by William Basinski perhaps?). But the loop itself is not impacted by the settings of the pedal. Is there a way to use this mode as a progressive desintegrating effect on the loops?
Hey there and thanks for posting on the Kinotone forum. Just to clarify - with Disintegration Loop, the loop is absolutely affected by the pedal’s settings with each pass.
The core idea behind this mode is exactly that: every time the loop repeats, it’s re-recorded through the current state of the effect chain. So if you’ve dialed in filtering, flutter, distortion, or reverb, those will cumulatively build up over time. For example:
- Add a lowpass filter, and the loop will get progressively darker with each repeat.
- Introduce flutter, and you’ll hear increasing warble and instability.
- Turn up reverb pre-mix and each repeat will get more smeared over time.
This gradual degradation is very much in the spirit of Basinski’s Disintegration Loops, but implemented as a more interactive process rather than passive tape decay.
Thanks for the answer. So after I recorded a piece of audio, I have to re-engage the footswitch (and hold it) to start the degeneration. I didn’t do that indeed. I can now hear the progressive degeneration, which sounds fantastic. Is there a way to trigger this without keeping the Touch button pressed?
The Touch footswitch has to be engaged for your loop to degrade.
You don’t need to keep it physically pressed down though - just quick tap to engage / tap again to disengage.
Yup! As @carl_cat said, quick tap to latch it. 
Thanks guys for the help!!
I have a few extra questions re disintegration loop, as I want to repeat a loop I recorded live and would like to repeat.. it was a simple mofif in ‘E’:
- Is it possible to separate the Touch from the Bypass - I say this as I am using a CB Mood2 to make microloop to complement my Ribbons loops, the issue I have is you need to engage the ‘effect’ part of the the Ribbons and this causes a volume drop, it would be FANTASTIC if you could ‘mix’ levels for the loop and Ribbons affected guitar signal independently!
- Is there a way to add volume/output to the whole pedal? I understand that the Mood2 itself is degrading the ‘tone’ of the Ribbons, but I can compensate on that pedal.
- The ‘loop’ disintegrates, as a result so does the sound, I noticed that if I fiddle the ‘EQ’ page on the Ribbons the degraded loops come back with starling effects and degradation, what is the best way to taper the volume in this instance?
What you tried the hidden options on Ribbons yet? Hold Bypass and twist the top right knob to boost or cut the output level.
yeah i tried it.. Not such a great volume boost, I will need to use a mixer, or maybe a booster between the Ribbons and the Mood2..
it would be great if you could switch off the effected guitar/input signal and let the microloop continue on it’s own and just alter that interactively. Probably asking a bit much there..!