Hello!
Performing ambient music in unusual, unexpected and unused places.
Power to the people!
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Welcome @Emil @M0ld @shittykids ! Thanks so much for joining the forum 
So grateful for that video from Jorb! They did such a great job summarizing Ribbons and how it works and I’m so thankful they shared it with their community.
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Hi all, glad to meet you. 
My name’s Mike, and I make [aspirationally] Warp Records-ish electronic music under the name Mute City and noise rock with my band Hex Map; I use a lot of lo-fi, warbly, glitchy textures in both projects. I think Ribbons would be a great addition to my tonal palette and am hopeful about nabbing one in the next preorder drop! 
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Hey everyone, I’m Carmen. Seems like this is a pretty compact community at the moment so I figured I’d join while things get off the ground for this awesome new company. I discovered Kinotone just by searching for lo-fi pedals, and I was blown away by Ribbons. Just placed my preorder for the next batch and can’t wait to dive into this awesome piece of gear and discover what it will do. Looking forward to seeing what others create as well.
Well done for making what seems to be an incredibly capable new pedal/instrument, Kinotone!
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@sawtoothwave, @Dharmander - thank you for joining the forum! So glad you discovered us, we appreciate the support. 
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Hi everyone! I’m Drew. I too enjoy making Warp/90s electronic-inspired music - Lake Villain - as well as vocal electronic tunes with my long-time writing partner under Drax Industries. I also want to say a big thanks to Jorb because I hadn’t heard about Ribbons before, and it seems to be exactly what I was looking for. (I had GenLossMkII for a hot sec but realized it was not the right tool for the sound I’m working toward.) Nabbed a pink Ribbons during the first few minutes of pre-order! Was worried they’d disappear. Looking forward to putting it to use!
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Hi all, my name is Chris and I am a member of the Seattle band Hollow Bodies. We play shoe gazy/jangly power pop/ indie rock. I love pedals, guitars and synths. I also came across Ribbons by way of Jorb (thanks YouTube). I am excited for my pink Ribbons to arrive later this spring!
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Welcome @cdew and @lakevillain ! So happy you decided to join the forum 
We’ll be posting an update regarding the current Ribbons production run this week - (hint: lots of good news!)
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Hi all, Chris here in the UK. Really looking forward to having the ribbons on my desk. I make a mix of genres and post to exploring_notes and Instagram etc.
I’ve had a couple of Generation Loss in the past and also I’m a long time Shallow Water owner, almost always on.
Really looking forward to the Ribbon looping, random repeater and now saturation 
great news.
Hope everything goes smoothly.
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Hey, happy I discovered this device and community. I’ll admit that I’ve only learned of the company and ribbons recently and missed out on all of the pre-order fun. However, this looks like a cool place to hang and share things in the meantime. If anyone reads this and happens to have a spare one for sale, feel free to send me a message.
Excited to experience more of this device and community.
-Augustus
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Hello all.
I heard someone mention Ribbons in an FB post. They didn’t say anything about it other than mention the other pedals on the board (MOOD II, Microcosm etc) and that the ribbons was end of chain. I wondered what pedal I hadn’t heard of would make sense end of chain after some of those others.
I googled the ribbons and I’m impressed! It sounds excellent and unique. I’d love to grab one. I try to push my guitar sound into uncharted realms but still keep it relatively listenable + work in a band context.
I use an assortment of chase bliss and other zeitgeisty fx pedals controlled by a morningstar mc6 pro.
Working on my next album and building my sound palette right now. Here’s my latest release “Psychedelala”:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sunbunny/psychedelala-2/
I’d love to base an album around the sounds of the ribbons!
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Hi @piljilaki and welcome to the Kinotone forum.
We will have a small amount of b-stock units going into the webstore this Friday August 4th at 11 a.m. Central time. There are 13 available; 3 aqua and 10 pink units. We won’t be announcing it on social media, just the forum. They usually go pretty quick but if you order right when they go live I think your chances of getting one are pretty good.
Outside of this we likely won’t have stock of Ribbons for several months.
Thanks for your interest in Kinotone!
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Hey Jaak and all, brought here by the Ribbons–I’ve been lusting after one, admiring demo videos, trawling Reverb with no luck–and mighty excited for the new release. I mostly make ambient and synthwave with a lofi/cinematic vibe, relying heavily on my beloved Zoom CDR70 and Empress Zoia. Most frequently on Instagram as good_._sunset.
Looking forward to adding a Kinotone to the chain just as soon as I can.
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Hello! I am here because I’m very interested in the Ribbons pedal. It seems like the exact “lo-fi” pedal I’ve been searching for. Most are filters but this one sounds very inspiring.
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Hi from Switzerland! I’m into noise- and soundscapes and when Sparks was launched, boy I didn’t even think twice
It’s going to sit in what is fast becoming a hyper crazy experimental suite of assorted noisemaker (Glou Glou Loupè + Flancher 5D, CXM 1978 reverb, Empress ZOIA, Mood II, Meris Enzo, Cooper FX Outward V2 just to name the wilder ones).
Now, what is sorely missed is a Ribbons 
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Hello,
My intro is kinda long, but that’s because I am OLD… like, “End of The Boomers” OLD,
I’ve had two careers : one in the high-tech world of the late 70’s thru the mid-90s,
then took a left turn and became a dentist, fulltime faculty at the med/dent school, then finally moving to private practice.
Grew up as the son of a 50’s/60’s Botany Prof in the mid-Willamette Valley, OR.
Parents split 'round '70, and I followed my mother (Emergency Intake Caseworker for State Childrens Services) to a very lumber-oriented southern Oregon town for my high school years. Played in the Jazz Lab there (guitar) and my first pedal was a Mutron III (well, I MADE my first pedal… a raspy 1-transistor distortion/fuzz). Also played in a band covering ZZ Top, Kiss, Sabbath and early 70’s metalish tunes.
At 17 I entered engineering school at Portland State, and ended up working nights at Tektronix while doing 12-14 day-time credits at PSU. Exhausting. Never finished my degree, but in the crazy booming world of Electronics in PDX in the late 70’s, it was “if you can prove you can do it, you got the job” regardless of degree-status.
I have worked at :
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Rodgers Organ Co (electronic voices> 150 stops, massively parallel circuitry, plus actual pipes, air-box controls and vibrato) 81-82
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Cardiac Resuscitator - we created the first AED and got it thru FDA approval, '82- 84
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Mentor Graphics - 11+ years. First in the Hardware design group, doing radiated/conducted emissions design/test, interface to the mech and manufacturing side, plus design of the Hardware Modeling Library’s hands-on user interface (ability to plug in 1st-silicon in package sizes up to 64, 128 and 400 pins (256 active) and throw sim-vectors at the Chip under test and read back it’s response in real time (TTL high/low AND high-Z state-sensing, 5 nsec accuracy for edge-placement claimed… actual was 2 -nsec, measured, across all active 256 pin-drivers/receivers) … and up to 16 devices-under-test per HML, network sharable… a fair accomplishment for 1984-7 tech.
(my avatar picture is of my IC Interface PCB for 2 devices, up to 128 active pins.
12 layers total, 4 planes and 8 controlled impedance signal layers.
Oh yeah… it also had 4 power rails available.)
I also did a large amount of PCB ‘architecture design’ (this enabled the implementation of these massively parallel PCBs) and LIVED the life of a PCB designer for a year, often at an offsight design house during the HML project.
After Mentor closed the Hardware Group, I did Software QA for the design of Full Custom IC tools (including parametric extraction from layout geometry and edge-case/fault analysis) and finally PCB Design tools division working on a product for ‘high speed artifact analysis/parameter extraction tools’ that were integrated into the interactive tools, so the user got feedback about crosstalk, length-constraints, net-to-net-type parallelism violations, AS they routed up the critical nets on the PCB. (this is the group where I was given a Chairman’s Achievement Award for doing all this testing inline AND as a high-end user, automating it, and helped in creating a large, product/platform-independent test-automation environment that was adopted by many groups/product-lines at Mentor.
We had approx 3 major-enhancement releases per year in the groups I worked in.
I wasn’t a death-march pace… it was a death-sprint.
I left Mentor because they wanted me to go back to school for an advanced degree just to “keep my same old job”.
Ahem… boss?
No one was teaching this stuff in the late 80’s/early 90’s… At least, no one on the west coast.
So instead I took a couple years of Mgmt-related classes (they had me on a mgmt track at Mentor) then quit and dove full-tilt into finishing a Biology-related degree w/target of getting into med, dental, or PharmD school (target on simulation of meds/receptors, metabolic processes, etc).
Dental school won out (can be my own boss, custom design for every patient, tons of fun biology)
Got accepted into OHSU and did their DMD program, and showed an interest in Pathology.
But I didn’t want a microscope/white-coat job (watched my dad do that at OSU) so I got a Faculty position doing clinical work with medically compromised people, complex med cases from the Indigent Populations projects, and taught students on rotation how to work with those folks (in hopes that the students wouldn’t refer every damn dental-hangnail to OHSU) Did that for 3 years. But the over-arching mgmt there kept putting my clinic on the chopping block as ‘bait’ to get the public and pols riled up and increase funding for the kind of outreach we were doing…but they got me all stressed out doing it.
So I found a small rural practice in the mid-Willamette Valley about 30 miles from where my 80+ yo mother lived (still had the old family house in Corvallis), so I could help her out.
Been here 20 years, just doing general dental stuff, plus things like Emergency Treatment Coordinator for 2 counties (via the ADA/ODA) during the pandemic, and I still get involved in interesting medical cases, pre-CA Tx triage and treatment, etc.
As hobbies, Jan and I have 7 acres and a herd of Shetland Sheep (raised for wool), I get to feed them daily, do vet services, and do the barn cleaning/property mgmt stuff.
To keep my volto-side happy, I do mental design of effects pedals… I have some software to do the design capture/sim/pcb layout, but never seem to have the hours.
I have done a little informal consulting with a couple pedal designers on noise issues.
I also give frequent, informal soliloquies on aspects of design and noise issues over at thegearpage under the moniker ‘lefort_1’
I promise to be nicer here than I am over there.
This is a nice, narrowcast atmosphere and that will be a breath of fresh air.
BTW: I type a lot.
Sorry.
They say my SATs for English were higher than my science scores… maybe I shoulda been a writer?
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hello folks! hope all is well with you. looking forward to sharing an appreciation for these exceptionally nifty effects pedals and the sonic creations they inspire with everyone.
currently am working on developing a couple projects to the point of having finished music to share. pretty sure the name for my solo downtempo and ambient project is going to be Slow Dog. am also in a post rock/shogaze style band that is collectively hemming and hawing over what name to pick… will add links to check out some sounds on my profile sooner than later!
when i’m not in the home studio with a cat in the lap working on music, you might find me riding my bike in the Bosque, working with kiddos at a community garden, at the park reading a book in my hammock, camping in the mountians, or on either end of a music lesson.
have been playing guitar for about 15 years and keybaord for the last couple years. quite green to production and recording, leaning into that very strongly. also can hold my own on the drums or the bass, will take any opportunity playing whatever is needed to jam out with folks!
that’s all for now, feel free to reach out if you feel compelled to ask any questions or make any comments. keep on shining brightly in the mean time.
-Desert_Moss
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Hi @RandallJones - that was a pretty epic introduction! Thanks for taking the time to share. I’m jealous you have a herd of sheep. We have dreams of having sheep one day but are very much in the wrong place (Minneapolis). Maybe one day.
And welcome to the forum @Desert_Moss. Our boy Sid looks a lot like the kitty in your picture. He is a sweetie and a menace.
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Hi, I’m Rob. I’m from Shropshire in the UK. Father of 4, so very little spare time, but what I do have I love spending with guitar and pedals creating things. Former Ribbons owner soon to be Ribbons owner once more.
Favourite band is Radiohead, love the way they create intricate sonic landscapes that still work very well as songs, but I listen to a reasonably broad spectrum of music.
Enjoy cooking, sport, videogames, craft beer. I’m a bit of a homebody at heart.
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