Anyone own this and the microcosm? I only have the microcosm.
What I don’t like about the chase bliss mood is that its mono only (microcosm is also stereo) and that there is no midi DIN port (microcosm has this).
So what does this bring that the microcosm doesnt?
Well they are not much comparable.
Microcosm sort of processes incoming signal consequently, while MOOD is based on capturing and altering loops from the incoming audio. Moreover, there are two channels (fx and granular) and many modes of combining them, which is not similar to any hardware device.
Some modes on Microcosm may resemble Mood’s chopping and micro-looping, but, for example, there is no such thing as slowed or timestretched loops in it. The looper in MicroC. works rather as independent block and has no option to modify the recorded sound (except for the overdubs).
Mood for me is associated with sound and techniques of Zoviet France
I don’t own the MOOD pedal but loved your comparison to Zoviet France, very apt! Now it makes me want to check this out even more! 
Not their classical, but rather current works with a lot of ‘microsound’, to be clear 
I used to own the MOOD, sold it for the Microcosm. I mistakenly thought the Microcosm would be a more feature-heavy MOOD but they’re not really comparable at all (as @Moonwax nailed the differences above) other than that they both can manipulate sound in unusual ways.
There are times when I miss the MOOD but ultimately its powers were too difficult to tame for my tastes. Your two points about the lack of stereo on the MOOD and no MIDI DIN port were actually the dealbreakers for me and what sold me on the Microcosm.
I spend so much time with my hands on my MOOD, that I forget it’s plugged into a midi box. I saved some presets early on, but it is just begging to be “played” …yeah, ramping, but the way the micro looper time and pitch stretching and the musical quantization of the clock… yeah. EFF yeah.
seems like I’m going to have to buy one and try for myself
what is your favorite instrument to run through it?
a sequence from a synth? which one? bassy or high pitched?
a guitar?
Mine gets mostly saxophone through it. Perfect for harmonizing and odd ball stretching.
You may want to remove the space between "odd’ and “ball”.
I found one on sale yesterday and am looking forward to getting this pedal and seeing if I gel with it.
Edit: I have just started to really understand this pedal, but it took a long time… and some frustration. The Youtube show Read the Manual helped a lot. I’ve seen some comments where people sell their Chase Bliss pedal after only having it a week or two… that’s just not long enough… it’s like a college class… it’s going to take a semester… maybe two
Underworld meets Múm 
I think the MOOD is probably my most utilised pedal and one which I always enjoy tweaking.
My favourite setting is reverb + tape.
I nearly always play it through a stereo reverb (Polara) to widen things out a bit,
though do enjoy going dry and lo-fi with just the looper section and nothing else.
I’ve hardly explored the stretch and slip settings and have owned it for a few years now.
My last two uploads are pretty well seasoned with fragrance a la MOOD.
(shameless plug, but it’s true!)
Love the MOOD. Got it after picking up a Chase Bliss Midibox to control my Meris Ottobit Jr. Both of those pedals provide so much glitchy goodness and the midi control expands their already substantial powers exponentially. Even just being able to sync to clock opens them up in all kinds of interesting, creative ways.
Highly agree! I think that MIDI brings the MOOD to life - been sending conditional trigs and MIDI LFOs from Elektron gear and it’s fantastic fun. I’d love an Ottobit Jr sometime!
Yes you can do all that with the MC. Time stretch is available. And you can run the looper pre FX to effect the looped material.
I’m looking forward to testing a mood next week and see how they compare in detail.
That’s cool. Was it the new firmware or just all along?
oh yes…damn. Apologies for misleading comment. But this is different from microlooping, looks like standard looper behaviour - static values, not continious changes
It looks like the Mood MkII actually offers quite a bit of new features, beyond just stereo – double the sample length, and the ability to play the tape loops with a MIDI keyboard? Pretty cool.
The one thing I’m not sure about is how (if I understood the documentation correctly), tape loops are reversed in the left channel and forward in the right channel. There’s no way to bounce/alternate them or anything? I’m having a hard time imagining what that sounds like but it feels like my left ear would get tired of the reverse loop after a while. But surely CB has spent a lot of time testing it and it’s just an imaginary problem?
Btw, if there was another thread where all the Mood MkII discussion is happening, let me know.
I think most of the talk has been on the ‘Chase Bliss pedals’ thread.
Thanks. I did actually find that shortly after I posted this, and felt a little sheepish for not searching further first. 
