Phonic Relapse

This is the Phonic Relapse.

Step into a glowing tide pool of echoes and movement…

A blur of city lights in slow motion… a dim lit journey from the bar of a cute quiet town, back into the warmth of home, with the breeze rustling the grass and trees, and the streetlights guiding you home

The reflection of moonlight on water, gently rippling in time.

Phonic Relapse is an atmospheric mood shaping device Like stepping into a world where gravity is drunk, color is infinite, and mushrooms hum in symphony with the stars. It’s not sterile and linear, it has a life of its own and is lofi in the best way.

Dusty, soft-edged, and warm, both sides utilize the PT2399 for its unique voice. The relapse side is voiced to feel worn-in, like a memory just out of reach. With depth at zero, it’s a ghost delay — raw and simple. But turn that depth knob, and you enter a realm of slow warbles and faded dreams- layering your previous musical thoughts in swirling color.

Even cooler? the time and the depth knob interact with each other for a everchanging feel.

Turning the repeats high and the time low and it transforms into a fragile chorus-verb hybrid, drenching your dry tone in a faded and unusual vivid reverb, with a boingy, almost spring like nature.

On the phonic side, a carefully tuned circuit provides the colorful mirror— one that’s warm, cracked at the edges, and completely hypnotic. In V2 we opened up the range, but with V3, we pushed the wave deeper. As the depth increases, the modulation begins to drift and bend — not just wobble, but sway, as if pulled by lunar gravity. You get that woozy, fluttering feel that’s rare and elusive, the kind that sounds like it’s barely holding itself together.

Blast the depth max and you stretch the chip to its limits and make it implode on itself.

This is for players who want their sound to melt a little. To drift into abstraction. To feel like you’re floating in slow-motion, wrapped in the afterglow of something half-remembered.