Tri Pedal Reviews | 5 months ago

Today we will be taking a listen to Source Audio's Artifakt - Lofi Elements pedal. The primary purpose of this video is to give you an idea of the many sounds that can be achieved. This is not just a Lofi pedal. This is beyond lofi. This is a toolbox you can use to craft both traditional sounds, and sounds you've never heard previously. This video is not a deep dive of the pedal and does not go over everything the Artifakt can do, this is just a small taste. I'll be doing an additional video that will be doing that when the editor is out. So don't worry, that will be coming!

What are the tools within this toolbox?

Volume Level Control, Overdrive, Distortion, Foldover Distortion, Fuzz, Octave Fuzz, Sample Rate Reduction, Bit Reduction, Bit Error, Compression, EQ with dialed in profiles, Tremolo, Chorus, Delay, Reverb, Flanger, Filter, LFO Control with your choice of shapes, Envelope control with reversible behavior, Noise Generation, Signal Dropouts, Vinyl Pops, Tape Mangles, Tape Stop, Glitching, Freeze.

These elements can be combined to create complex effects or used on their own to create traditional effects. You also have the ability to assign any switch or knob to any function you like.

Timestamps below for hopping around.

00:00 - Dry Signal

Preset Showcase
00:21 - #1 Ghost Radio (Signal Loss, Noise Generation, EQ, Bit Loss, Sample Rate Reduction)
05:38 - #2 Gated Reverb (Envelope Controlled Reverb)
07:28 - #3 Save us Jon (Foldover Distortion & Delay)
08:44 - #4 Through The Static (Noise Generation, Gated Fuzz, Delay)
09:51 - #5 Intense Fuzz Flange (Distortion, Flanger)
11:15 - #6 Haunted Reverb (Reverb, Tremolo)
12:38 - #7 Warped Vinyl (EQ, Modulation, Noise Generation)
14:10 - #8 Slow Filter (Distortion, LPF Filter)
14:46 - #9 Bells (Ring Modulation)
15:15 - #10 Broken CE-1 (Chorus, Overdrive, Flange)
16:19 - #11 Doubler Detune (Chorus, Flange)
16:56 - #12 Cosmic Rays (Noise Generation, LFO, Delay)
18:00 - #13 Gramophone (Modulation, Noise Generation, EQ)
18:46 - #14 Cool Noise (Noise Generation, Filter)
19:50 - #15 Tile Room Trash Can (Driven Reverb)
20:47 - #16 Area 51 (EQ, Modulation)
21:33 - #17 EDM (Noise Generation, Filter)
26:39 - #18 Rainstorm 1 (Noise Generation, EQ, Filter)
27:34 - #19 Resonant Bells(???)
29:06 - #20 Deceptively Tame (Filter, Delay, Distortion?)
30:19 - #21 LFO Glitch Computer (Sample Rate Reduction, Glitch)
31:21 - #22 Unstable Chorus - (Bit Error, Chorus, EQ)
31:51 - #23 Hurt (Tremolo, Random LFO)
32:55 - #24 Bleep Bloop Supreme (Glitch)
34:17 - #25 Analog Echo (Delay)
35:28 - #26 Gate Keeper (Bit Error, Distortion, Delay)
37:07 - #27 UFO Doom (Envelope Filter, Aliens)
38:02 - #28 Microtron 4 (Envelope Filter, Delay)
39:46 - #29 Skriffy 4 (Filter)
42:33 - #30 Tremolo (Tremolo)

I participated in the beta testing of this pedal.