KliptorTremolo / Filter
Kliptor is two pedals in one: a precision tremolo and a DJ-style resonant filter that can move with it. From silky swells to hard rhythmic chopping, its pattern and sweep controls give your playing motion. Add an expression pedal and you can ride the filter, the rate, or both at once.
Switch 1 · Shape
Three shapes of motion
The Shape switch sets how each pulse rises and falls. Flip it to see the same signal chopped, struck or breathed.
Select
Hard on and off. Each pulse cuts cleanly for sharp, rhythmic chopping and gating.
Audio demos
Listen
Straight from the pedal. Headphones help.
Kliptor alongside the Kascade Echo Bender.
Kliptor in a chain with Karousel and Kascade.
Watch Kliptor in action on YouTube.
Watch the videoControls
The panel
Two knobs run the gate, three run the filter, and Pattern sets the rhythm. The switches choose the shape, what your expression pedal controls and where the tempo comes from.
- Pot 1
- RateSpeed of the gating, from slow swells to fast chopping and flutter.
- Pot 2
- DepthHow deeply each pulse cuts the signal.
- Pot 3
- SweepHow far the filter travels as the effect moves.
- Pot 4
- CutoffThe filter's tonal center, darker through brighter.
- Pot 5
- ResonanceEmphasis at the filter peak, from smooth to vocal.
- Pot 6
- PatternThe rhythm of the gate, from even pulses to syncopated, chopped patterns.
- Switch 1
- ShapeSquare, envelope or ambient tremolo.
- Switch 2
- Expression ModeExpression pedal controls the filter, the rate, or both.
- Switch 3
- Timing ModeMIDI clock, tap or free.
- Left switch
- Tap TempoTap in time to lock the gate and filter to the song.
- Right switch
- Effect On/OffEngages or bypasses Kliptor.
Specifications
Built for your whole rig
- Tremolo
- Square, envelope and ambient shapes with pattern control
- Filter
- Resonant, with cutoff and sweep
- Expression
- Filter, rate or both, chosen on the fly
- Timing
- MIDI clock, tap and free
- Audio
- Mono or stereo
- MIDI
- Type-A TRS In and Thru, full CC control
- Expression
- APEX: assign any supported knob to an expression pedal
- Presets
- 128 onboard, managed in Keystone Control Center
- Updates
- Free lifetime firmware over USB
- Power
- 9V DC center-negative, regulated
- Warranty
- One year
Kliptor is one of seven dynamic effects from Keystone Musical Instruments, an American company based in Bensalem, PA. Every Keystone pedal shares the same small enclosure, MIDI control, APEX expression and free firmware updates, so they work together on one board. Its LED glows orange, its signature color.
Put Kliptor on your board
Try it in your rig for 30 days. If it isn't for you, send it back.