#109

Check out the Vongon Ultrasheer. It’s another 70’s inspired reverb, but also has a vibrato section. I’m really enjoying it so far.

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#110

anyone using a chase bliss midi box (or something like that) with norns? thinking about diving into that world

#111

wasn’t aware of this but looks useful if you have a few trs midi pedals you want to control w/ norns (though this looks more useful?).

I just went through with buying most of the adapters needed to send midi both ways w/ Zoia & norns - I guess with the box you lose out on two way communication? (I’m a midi noob)

I do use norns to control volante. that’s a simple usb cable. modulating something like 20 params with lfos and clocked random is ridiculously fun.

#112

You might take a look at the Morningstar controllers. I don’t have one, but they look really cool!

I do have a chase bliss midi box, and have thought about trying to hack together a script meant for modulating pedals. Just haven’t gotten around to it.

#113

I use one on my guitar board along with a Morningstar MC6 to control Dark World and a Tonal Recall. Works very well.

#114

yeah, the disaster area box is a little more universal. i already have the chase bliss midi box though. i think you’re correct that using something like this is just one way communication.

i’d be interested in whatever script you come up with! i haven’t dipped into scripting yet, but down the line might end up working on something. modulating specific channels and CC’s (synced to a clock or free rates) would be super fun.

would you mind going into a little more detail here? are you having the norns control anything parameters on the pedals or is the morningstar doing most of the lifting?

#115

I only use the MC6 as it is really ease to use.

I have it set up like this with banks/pages:

The video should show this well enough in terms of the usage but hopefully this will help too:

So Bank 1 is “Home”
This has switches to several other banks which I have generally done as a bank per pedal.

So Bank 2 is Drive (Preamp MKII) as an example. Bank 6 is space (Tonal Recall and Dark World).

All banks have a page toggle which I have put as a + in the top right.

When inside that page there are more switches available and a Back in the bottom left.

All banks other than home have a Home button in bottom left too.

Home also has a page of switches too on the + and a Back option as well.

Really it is done using bank jump and toggle page.

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#116

I recently discovered the joys of plugging LFOs into the expression pedal input on guitar pedals and have become a little obsessed with the possibilities.

I’ve got an EHX Deluxe Memory Boy on the way that I picked up cheaply which looks impressive in terms of how flexible the expression pedal input is. I’m wondering if it can go a step or two (/four) further, though…

At present the DMB has one CV input for expression which can be assigned to any one of four delay controls via a selection toggle button. I’m wondering if anyone knows whether it could be modified to provide access to all four of the controls at once rather than only one at a time. Has anyone tried? It strikes me as the perfect pedal delay partner for a synth if that could be achieved!

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#117

Don’t sleep on the Adventure Audio Again pedal. It has five (5) CV ins, one for each control knob, right on top of the pedal. So you can throw all of your sequencers/LFOs at it, and the control knobs work as offsets.

The other cool thing about it is that the out sends the dry signal to ring and the wet signal to tip on a TRS y-cable. So you can process both after if you want to.

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#118

That sounds incredible! Not easy to come by over here, alas & I tend to get hit with significant import duties whenever I buy anything from the US, but I’m very interested!

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#119

Just tried running my Matriarch through @Vongon’s new vibrato/reverb pedal and…oof. Blown away.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHJBvYPhz-i/?igshid=exy9z91i3ean

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#120

Boss DC2W and Fromel Seraph Deluxe - Always loved Dimension style choruses and this works great with synths, I love it on high/fizzy/airy pad sounds the most.

Moog MiniFooger Drive - Very underappreciated/under the radar device, absolutely NUTS pedal that has clean boost, distorted FET boost/overdrive, the classic transistor ladder filter (with Res), CV input, and another crazy EQ style filter. A huge array of sounds can be had. I like to pair it with my Mood Grandmother doing dirty bass and leads. Insane on electric guitar too.

NOS Germanium FuzzFace - My friend Gael from TouellSkouarn built for me in return for some mastering work, but I only use it when I really want to destroy things!

Eventide H9 Max - Works as well for synths as it does for guitars.

I also have a reamp box from Orchid Electronics permanently hooked up so I can send any balanced line level tracks from the PC through it and into the tube amp or the pedals (or both!)

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#121

I’m a junkie for the Recovery Effects stuff. Many of the designs are explorations of what you can do with an envelope follower + delay plus some distortion. They go incredibly extreme but each has a variety of sweet spots as well. Fantastic on all kinds of sources. Just finished an EP that makes extensive use of their Viktrolux (no longer made but could get maybe get close to it with Cutting Room Floor).

#122

Anyone have recs for a flanger that can stay relatively static? Looking for a comb filter effect.

#123

I had the original EHX Electric Mistress once. It had some setting that didn’t move. “FIlter matrix” - or something?

Yes, here it is at 4:40

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#124

I only just got onto the latest Tensor firmware update, making it stereo and accepting midi in the expression input, pretty epic update.

I want to control the the loop decay time using midi. I tried using a faderfox UC4 connecting direct from the mini trs midi out into the Tensor but no joy, do I still need something like an Empress Midi Box? I have a couple of Chase Bliss pedals too I’d like to control.

#125

I believe it’s just midi over USB on those guys.

#126

I have a Tensor (not updated yet) a Darkworld, and a Dimension D i‘m dying to try out on my new Protools rig with the insert points on a Cranborne Audio interface…these will be my ‚special‘ sound design weapons for my line level daily work with voices/mixes/foley. These three are great with guitars or synths/modular as we know already, totally fresh approaches to FX.
The Tensor to me has great potential with precise midi tweaking for my approach. I have a Torso Electronics T-1 incoming, that would bring euclid/random probability to the Tensor and my Protools/line levels :sunglasses:
Hi im a Soundesigner that got very bored with stock libraries and in 2021 (the decade of the aquarius just started😆) i think my shenanigans with my modular paid off-anything can be tried from digital to analogue, midi to cv on a very high level of audio quality. Its here to be abused-feedbackloop on the Dimension D anyone?

I‘m a big n00b on fuzz/distortion/overdrives though. I‘ve a black ash that sounds wonderful on guitar but not very cool on synths or rather not like something that I’d want…will have to listen to different things. Maybe what i want is to have the sound distort through an amp with a cabinet and then miked? A la Suicide?

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#127

Not any more midi is accepted at the exp pedal input as of the last update.

#128

Hi! I’m newer to the forum (been on Elektronauts for a while, lurked here but signed up because I purchased a Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter 2 and this is a great place for that stuff) and I’ve started a new series reviewing pedals with synths, drum machines, and samplers. Trying to go for a casual brief intro, knob & button overview, then a long session of just trying them out, followed by a quick overview/summary. Really just trying to provide the type of review/demo videos I like. Dropping a new episode every 2 weeks, with 2 already live (Recovery Effects Dirty Murals and another with the Walrus Audio Slo), another coming on the 15th! I have some good stuff coming too: a Demedash T-120 V2, Montreal Assembly Count to Five, OTO Machines BIM, a few Dwarfcraft Devices pedals, and the AC Noises AMA V2 - just for starters. Anyway let me know what you all think! Happy and ready for suggestions and criticism and all the above haha. Thanks for checking it out and I definitely think this might be of interest of anyone on this thread. =)

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