With MIDI control and software updates via USB-C, Stratus is the most flexible tool for your pedalboard.
ONE PEDAL, ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES
Stratus is dynamic—quickly switch it to one of 39+ pedals or into a chain of 7+ effects.
NEW SOUNDS ARE A FEW TAPS AWAY
Easily configure your effects with our intuitive mobile app, then close it.
Stratus® handles all the audio processing independently, ensuring pristine, latency-free sound.
7,000,000+ combinations.
Access dozens of effects made by Chaos Audio and 3rd-party brands.
We're always adding more.
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MARINER
Mariner is an analog delay designed to provide lush organic repeats, perfect for thick cascading lead lines, a swirly undercurrent on rhythm, or even murky self oscillation for swells or ambient vibes. Built to emulate vintage analog Bucket Brigade circuitry, there’s plenty of repeats on tap, and a tone knob that helps dial in the darkness or brightness of those repeats for a fully customizable sound.
Time: BPM of the repeat
Repeats: Amount of repeats
Tone: Brightness of repeats
Mix: Amount of effect
ORBITER
Orbiter is a classic chorus. This effect is crafted to offer incredibly lush sonic soundscapes, to layer in depth and width to your tone. Modeled after classic chorus pedals, the Rate and Depth knobs allow you to go from shallow wide washes, to punchy deeper waves. And turn the Delay knob up to expand the width of your signal for even thicker tones.
Rate: Wave speed
Level: Output volume
Depth: The depth of the wave
Delay: Separation between waves
PEGASUS
Pegasus is a boost drive. This effect is made to add low mids that are perfect for thickening up lead lines, and tube-like breakup with plenty of note separation ideal for chords. Using new old stock 0s and 1s, we've created a magical version of a pedal known for its legend and lore. The Drive knob runs from clean boost to cranked tube amp heaven, and the Tone knob helps you dial in your sound to fit perfectly in the mix.
Drive: Amount of breakup
Level: Output gain
Tone: Amount of brightness
COSMOS
Cosmos is a hall reverb. Loaded with celestial decay, this effect allows you to dial in what reverb might sound like in space, if sound could occur in a vacuum. The Space knob ranges from subtle hints of depth, to rich deep space resonance, and the Darkness knob dampens the reverberations, to achieve more mellow and smooth soundscapes.
Space: Size of reverb
Darkness: Amount of dampening
Tone: Brightness of trail
Mix: Amount of effect
gemini
Gemini is a twin overdrive that combines Spacedust and Apollo drive stages. Crafted to easily blend 2 clipping stages together, on one pedal unit. Use one or both stages to create your own unique mix and flavor of breakup. Stage 1 controls the Spacedust stage, and can be used to add rich sparkle tone. Stage 2 controls the Apollo stage, which will add tube-like warmth and breakup. With both stages stacked together, Gemini sounds like the front of a tube amp that’s being pushed. Plus — a Tone knob that alters both stages.
Stage 1: Spacedust breakup
Level: Output gain
Stage 2: Apollo breakup
Tone: Amount of brightness
asteroid
Asteroid is a high gain distortion. Engineered to offer insane amounts of breakup perfect for punchy chugs and screaming lead tones. Inspired by popular metal pedals, this effect offers an incredibly versitile EQ stack for surgical tone shaping. The Low knob controls the amount of air moving thump, while the Highs knob either smooths or adds cut. The mids section uses a Mid Freq knob to select a wide arrange of frequencies for the Mid knob to boost or cut.
Drive: Amount of breakup
Mid Freq: Frequency of mid knob
Level: Output gain
Low: Amount of lows
Mid: Amount of mids
High: Amount of highs
spacedust
Spacedust is a symmetrical clipping overdrive. This pedal was engineered to add thickness, presence, and cut to your tone. It’s modeled after an early overdrive circuit, with a new twist. The Tone knob helps you shape your sound and add plenty of sparkle, while the Mix knob allows for unique tones by blending organic sounding transients with breakup crunchy goodness after.
Drive: Amount of breakup
Level: Output gain
Tone: Amount of brightness
Mix: Blend between clean and drive
WARP SPEED
Warp Speed is a light transparent drive. This effect was built to add grit to your existing tone without coloration or tonal changes. A unique circuit that borrows from engineering of the past, for a drive pedal of the future. The Drive knob adds transparent breakup to any signal, and the Tone knob dials in brightness and brilliance.
Drive: Amount of breakup
Level: Output gain
Low: Amount of lows
Low: Amount of lows
Tone: Amount of brightness
STARLIGHT
Starlight is a shimmer reverb. Designed to produce the wonder of staring up at the night sky, it has the ability to include twinkling octaves on the reverb trail. With loads of Space on tap, this reverb sounds lush and ambient, with or without shimmer dialed in via the Lumens knob. Starlight is perfect for pads or lead lines, and the Tone knob decides exactly how bright the night sky will shine.
Space: Size of reverb
Lumens: Amount of shimmer
Tone: Brightness of trail
Mix: Amount of effect
ares
Ares is a germanium fuzz. This effect is designed to achieve classic sounds from the dawn of stompboxes, from mild distortion, to full on breakup. Modeled after vintage fuzz circuits, this 2 knob pedal keeps it simple. The Fuzz knob helps dial in thickness and depth to your signal, from mild clipping to full on fuzzy furry sounds, while the Level knob controls output gain.
Fuzz: Amount of fuzz
Level: Output gain
CASSINI
Cassini is a harmonic reverb. This pedal was designed to offer huge sonic soundscapes, with rich harmonics added to the trails to increase depth and add unique character to your sound. Perfect for luxurious pads, lush ambient tones, and even light verb tones. The Space knob provides depths from near system stars to deep space, and the Gamma knob takes the harmonics from zero to complete breakup.
Space: Size of reverb
Gamma: Amount of harmonics on trail
Tone: Brightness of trail
Mix: Amount of effect
apollo
Apollo is an asymmetrical clipping overdrive. Classic recognizable tube tone, complete with slight mid hump and crisp drive. Can be used as a boost with the Drive turned down, or use the Drive knob to emulate amp like breakup at lower volumes. The Drive knob goes from clean, all the way to punched-in-the-face pushed-amp overdrive. Tone turned down leads to smoother warmer tones, and when turned up leads to increased presence.
Drive: Amount of breakup
Level: Output gain
Tone: Amount of brightness
SKYLAB
Skylab is a room reverb. Engineered to emulate the best sounding rooms, allowing you to recreate room tone no matter your location. The Space knob ranges from small tight amp closet loaded with early reflections, to a large room with plenty of ambient decay, and the Darkness knob dampens the reverberations to acheive more mellow and smooth soundscapes.
Space: Size of reverb
Darkness: Amount of dampening
Tone: Brightness of trail
Mix: Amount of effect
PIONEER
Pioneer is an optical tremolo, and is engineered to offer pulsing waves of transit peaks and waveform valleys using variable speed low frequency oscillation and signal filtering. The simple trem circuit offers harmonic characteristics in the rise and fall, the Depth knob goes from subtle to full volume cut, and the Rate goes from smooth pulses to choppy rapid fire transients.
Rate: Wave speed
Level: Output volume
Depth: Wave depth
Mix: Level of effect
meteor
Meteor is a hard clipping distortion. With edgy focused clipping, this pedal is designed to produce punchy lead tones, and smooth rhythm tones. Modeled after an old school distortion pedal, Meteor has extra gain on tap with the Drive knob, and an organic Tone knob that will help you jump out or fill out any mix.
Drive: Amount of breakup
Level: Output gain
Tone: Amount of brightness
transit
Transit is a true digital delay. With pure digital high-res repeats, and controls to dial your sound in exactly, this pedal will will help your lead lines soar and fill sonic space. Modeled after vintage digital circuits, Transit’s Tone knob will help you go from dark and layered, to bright and percussive. With plenty of repeats on tap, and Time knob BPM controlled, you’ll be able to dial in to make sure your notes repeat exactly when you want them to.
Time: BPM of the repeat
Repeats: Amount of repeats
Tone: Brightness of repeats
Mix: Amount of effect
supernova
Supernova is a preamp drive. Designed as a robust early stage gain, this effect will help saturate your tone as an always-on, or even as a elad booster. This is modeled after the gain stage of a old tape echo machine. The Pre knob pushes your sound with rich harmonics and presence, and the Post knob can be used to balance your signal to unity, or push the front end of your amp with output gain.
Pre: Saturation and presence
Post: Output gain
TYCHO
Tycho is a vintage phaser. Created to bring swirly oscillation to your sound, this effect pedal offers vintage filter tones that rise and fall to create a sweeping modulation effect, fit for the changing landscape of the moon. The Rate knob lets you go from fast alien-like warbles, to wide depths to match the sea of tranquility.
Rate: Wave speed
Level: Output volume
Mix: Amount of effect
PLUTO
Pluto is a vibrato. Websters dictionary defines vibrato as: a slightly tremulous effect imparted to vocal or instrumental tone for added warmth and expressiveness by slight and rapid variations in pitch. This effect does that well. The Rate knob goes from low and slow, to fast and aggressive, and the Depth knob controls how large the wave goes.
Rate: Wave speed
Level: Output volume
Depth: Wave depth
void
Void is a silicon fuzz. Designed with plenty of fuzz on tap, you can achieve rich saturated fuzz tones, yet it responds nicely with your volume knob rolled back. Modeled after modern takes on old school silicon fuzz circuit, the Fuzz knob starts with mild saturation, and eventually gets into nasty, velcro-like tones. The Tone knob helps smooth up the breakup when dialed down for wooly tones, and increases attack for spitty spluttery tones when turned up.
Fuzz: Amount of fuzz
Level: Output gain
Tone: Amount of attack and brightness
booster
Booster is a clean boost. Designed to be incredibly simple, and perfect for pushing the front of a tube amp or standing out in a mix. This simple booster provides 24dB of clean gain boost.
Boost: Clean output gain
URANUS
Uranus is an auto-wah. This effect was designed to recreate classic sweeping wah tones, without the need for an expression pedal. Uranus can help you achieve lead tones perfect for solos, funky rhythms, and anything else that needs a little extra mojo. The Wah knob lets you control how intense the effect is, from mild filtering, to super intense funky tones.
Wah: Sensitivity and depth of wah
Level: Output gain
Mix: Amount of effect
spectrometer
Spectrometer is a 6 band EQ. Designed to offer complete sonic shaping with at 6 frequencies, intentionally selected for guitar. Each knob offers 12dB of either cut or boost at a fixed frequncy, and the Q for each tuned for optimal tone.
100Hz: +/- 12dB
200Hz: +/- 12dB
400Hz: +/- 12dB
800Hz: +/- 12dB
1.6KHz: +/- 12dB
3.2KHz: +/- 12dB
gravity
Gravity is a dynamic compressor. Engineered to maximize your sustain and provide consistency to your tone. The Threshold knob controls the level where compression kicks in, and when combined with the Ratio knob, it provides subtle squeze to complete squish. The Blend knob lets you blend in dry signal for the best of both worlds.
Threshold: Level where compression kicks in
Level: Amount of makeup gain
Ratio: Amount of compression
Blend: Amount of effect
Pegasus
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Gravity
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