#35

so whats going to happen now? Im now interested and will back it but your not gonna make it…
Can you have a second kickstarter? I guess why not?
Can you see the amount of interest since youve done videos Bert?

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#36

Kickstarter will generally allow you to restructure and try again, but trying again without changing anything, or even explaining why you expect to be twice as successful the next time around, they’re never too keen on.

I’d say wait a bit, and come back when you can…

  • Put the new editor front and center

  • Show the next hardware iteration, and highlight its changes (red cursor buttons for clarity, higher screen framerate for LFOs), just to quickly demonstrate that the product has improved since we’ve last seen it

  • Make a new “overview” video, and place that in the “campaign video” slot since many users don’t even scroll far enough into the description to where your videos were this time.

  • Demonstrate specific hardware integrations (MPE demos w/ roli, linnstrument, sensel morph, Jouee, maybe KMI) and coordinate with those manufacturers to have them share your demos before and during the next campaign.

That’s more or less all I can think of right now.

(Out of curiosity, would there be any interest in a self contained version, like a more affordable System 8? Something midi-centric, perhaps? That would potentially create extra pledge levels, and draw interest from different markets.)

Anyway, I’d be happy to help on the video front, and I can bring an assortment of MPE controllers by.

Plus, NAMM’s just around the corner. Who knows what opportunities might arise there?

So, yeah. Running theme: don’t give up yet.

I’m sure you’re exhausted right now, but maybe hold off on a “the project is dead” announcement until NAMM is behind you.

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#37

2 hours left… come on everyone … lets make this happen :slight_smile:

lets focus on the positive…
without doubt in the last few days Percussa have been doing the right things, thats positively shown by how many new backers have come on board in the last few days/hours.

I think anyone that wants this to happen, should back it now…

even IF it doesn’t make target, the more people that back it, the more Percussa will be able to see that their is the demand required, and will be much more likely to find a way to make it happen.

so… back it now, even if you think it might not make it :slight_smile:

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#38

Precisely! It is so easy to armchair quarterback the particulars here. This is a huge thing for the modular world, and for synthesis in general. DSP power to the masses!

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#39

Even the prototype is an amazing accomplishment, and I commend Bert for insisting on a harder path for himself to make the unit affordable for more of us. (That the armchair quarterbacks keep attacking this particular detail is frustrating, to say the least.)

I hope I haven’t crossed that line myself. It’s certainly possible. I’m trying to be constructive, and aim my comments squarely forward.

(Perhaps more important, my offer to help is real. We’re both in SoCal, and I’d make all of my skills and equipment available, if there’s a second rally to be had.)

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#40

Some follow-up on Facebook:

Just confirmed, no account is required to read that, though you will need one if you want to reply there.

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#41

happy new year, good health and success to all of you !

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#42

New presentation video from yesterday at Perfect Circuit, Burbank, CA -

If you missed the one at Analogue Haven, Santa Monica, CA, here it is -

MATTHS aka matthew hodson just started a live stream series on the SSP -

new multichannel USB streaming update coming up tomorrow -

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#43

i’m becoming more and more interested in the percussa SSP as a replacement for my ER-301 which i have not gotten along terribly well with. i just find it too non-intuitive. i’ll have a great a-ha moment with it and then forget how to use it.

the discussion of the SSP over at muffs is negative, at best. people complaining that no one has made youtube videos about it (who the fuck cares?.. well, ok, youtube videos are certainly helpful, but lack of them is no reason to say bad shit about a manufacturer) and, of course, the price. but, youtube and price aside, does anyone have any constructive opinion on the SSP? ideally in relation to the ER-301?

it seems to be able to do very similar things but in a much more user-friendly way and actually does have quite a bit more DSP power.

or maybe it’s just as difficult to use as the 301?

would love to hear any opinions if anyone here has used one or owns one.

thanks
taylor

#44

I seem to remember @TheTechnobear had some knowledge of the Percussa devices and liked them a lot ! Maybe it’ll help to have his opinion on it.

#45

pinging @sonoptik, who posted some lovely glamour shots on IG the other day :slight_smile:

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#46

This might be the actual best way to sell the SSP to me, so slick and full of possibilities when you look at it like that damn.

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#47

I really wish the mSSP had been funded. That to me would have been the perfect compromise in price and features.

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#48

The SSP has different usability issues. I really wish they’d release the desktop patch editor they developed for the mSSP Kickstarter. I love using the SSP but I don’t love patching with it.

The hardware and feature capabilities are amazing.

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#49

what don’t you like about the patching interface? from the videos it seems somewhat straightforward

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#50

The I/O lists are very small, lots of scrolling. Strange acronyms. Knobs feel inefficient for 2D navigation. Just cramped in general in spite of the massive screen.

The ER-301 is pretty amazingly efficient given the single encoder and tiny screen. “Scope mode” was all I needed to make friends with it. Usability issues aside, I’ll keep using both of them.

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#51

thanks for the insight.

yes, for the small screens the 301 is very smartly designed. but there’s a TON of clicking and weird things to remember that aren’t printed on the panel. when to click UP or BACK or ENTER etc. it doesn’t always seem consistent.

i guess i wish there was a manual. trying to learn it by searching thru videos is tough.

i was/am hoping the SSP is a bit more intuitive with that beautiful screen. the sample display and scrubbing and stuff certainly looks nice.

i just wish the price point wasn’t so high. for $1000 it would be much easier to swallow without looking around the studio for gear to sell. i can get a decent price from Percussa but still a lot.

maybe it’s time to sell my nord g2 that sadly hasn’t been turned on in years (don’t even know if there’s a current functional editor for it)

anyway. hoping more people chime in with SSP user experiences.

#52

This mostly means that Bert hasn’t sent out free units (at substantial cost to himself) for popular YouTubers to review.

We do have these, though:

#53

Menu diving is the bane of so many digital modules.

That’s one of the bigger reasons why I wish the mSSP campaign had gone through – Percussa was planning to divert some resources to an external patch editor. But without those pledges, it’s all on the front panel.

(You’re not going to edit patches during a jam anyway. That’s all pre-production, and saving presets to load up at a show.)

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#54

Happy days… new Percussa SSP firmware.

after release of my clds (Clouds) and rngs (Rings) vsts, Ive been chatting to Percussa about a few changes and improvements that could be made to the SSP firmware to make VSTs ‘feel better’.
Bert was super receptive, and today released a new firmware that incorporates these changes (and more!)

Im happy to say, Ive had access to betas to help test, so my clds and rngs are updated and released, and already make use of the new features in the firmware :slight_smile:

but theres ‘one more thing’ …
Today I also release PMIX, a performance mixer for the SSP.
this is an 8 channel in , 4 stereo channel out mixer - with mute, cue , solo and aux (send) outputs.
(of course with the SSP you can chain them! )

I’ve had it in development for a while and its really changed how I use the SSP, because it makes doing things like send/return so easy - or ‘cue-ing’ things to my Octatrack for recording.

anyway, here is a quick glimpse of a little rig I’ve setup

I plan to do a demo now the release is done…
but this is a fun rig, all audio is from the SSP… using my VSTs (including an unreleased one :wink: )

for the proper demo, I’ll be using the CV IO from the SSP, e.g. to get CV from the madrona labs soundplane (via bela) … but was a bit quicker (tidier?) to just send midi directly from Hermod to SSP.

talking of ‘easy’ … all this audio came straight to my phone over USB from the SSP, hence no patch cables…

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