#459

Yeah, this moves me from extreme excitement to tentative interest, pending sound samples.

That being said, a solid move on their part. The pedal market will gobble this up. And I may too :joy:

Edit: release sounds samples have me thinking that this is pretty neato, but not for me.

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#460

It looks like it might be able to Shimmer down which is an underutilized. I can see a lot of potential in being able to add animation to infinite reverbs. I imagine they’ve got some neat stuff going on under the hood,

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#461

Uh oh that one retailer spoiling Strymons big reveal :grimacing:

#462

This might be it around 20:30. Not that I can hear what it’s doing at all.

#463

I saw this earlier and am dying :joy::joy::joy:

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#464

Took me a good deal of puzzling before I “got” it . Thursdays are hard.

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#465

I heard the Pitchblack emulation is of the pedal and not the rackmount version. I’ll wait for v2 :wink:

“Pitch pipes” really got me.

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#466

Nick rules, king of PWM! I think it just sounded a bit like any generic synth with a ton of reverb on it, a bit thin, etc. For certain things it will be fantastic, in fact, I could see it really filling out a mix, and it definitely will stand out from other analog polys. The performance capabilities are really where it’s going to shine. To be honest I’m just not much of a performer, and tend to sequence everything (I started music on the guitar, not the piano). I just found it a bit funny that it didn’t make me less interested in the OB-6 (since I already have a prophet 6) or the Matrixbrute. It really is a cool device though. I’ll probably pick one up in a few years when I am theoretically financially more secure and they are theoretically cheaper.

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#467

Details up.

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#468

I like it. A nice direction for Strymon, it’s defiantly a lot more experimental than a lot of their other products (the main reason why I never really vibed with El Cap or BlueSky). Would need to test before getting thou. Love the way you can jump between shimmer intervals and create arpeggiated reverbs.

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#469

Sonic Smith has two new euro rack modules coming out in March and they’re now taking pre-orders.

This new eurorack module is similar but a redesigned and upgraded version of the Sonic Smith converter+ which I own.

I use the converter+ with guitar and it works pretty well with great feel however playing more than one note with this mono synth and audio to cv converter creates noise.

There is also a new companion module that allows you to input 6 of the converter E1 modules through a special cable and convert that signal to midi out.

I could not find a demo of these new products as of yet, but I have seen a demo of 6 sonicsmith Squaver P1+ modules, one assigned each string of the guitar using a hex pickup and breakout box, which creates an accurate and fast tracking polyphonic guitar synthesizer. The Squaver P1+ is similar to the now-discontinued converte+ module but with more features.

Here is that demo of poly synth guitar on post reply#57 along with further discussion on breakout boxes.

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=25929.msg206690#msg206690

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#470

Wow, I wonder what the market for these are. It’s interesting that they had just an osc controlled by the audio input rather than an entire synth voice, although, I’m sure it’s easy enough to patch up.

#471

[quote=“Mangrove, post:470, topic:30429”]
Wow, I wonder what the market for these are.
[/quote] If the MidiVerter works, in conjunction with the converter E1, with flawless tracking, it would be a game changer for guitarists who are used to the tracking glitches of the current guitar pitch to midi converter systems.

For those not familiar with the old guitar pitch to midi converters.

A hex pickup, such as the Roland GK3 with 13 pin cable, sends 6 analog guitar signals from each separate string along with cv to a guitar synth which has a midi converter built in, like the Roland GR55. Besides the internal PCM tones, they can trigger external synths with midi control capabilities. But they are notorious for producing tracking error such as second harmonic note trigger as the note fades or false note triggers from fret noise or a slide to a different fret.

Currently the Fishman triple play is known to have the least amount of tracking error but IMO those system still feel like a disconnect between the guitar and the synth. (The FTP does the midi conversion at the guitar.)

To help avoid much of the tracking error problem, many guitar players have turned to non midi triggered polyphonic guitar systems which use the guitar string as an oscillator and for envelope information. These analog synth and guitar modeler systems include the VG8, VG88, VG99, GP10 and the current SY1000. From the VG99 on up, these units also include pitch to MIDI conversion systems in order to trigger external synth modules.

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#472

New analog delay out of Asheville. I’m hyped.

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#473

I heard nothing that the DOD Rubberneck can’t do for less than half the price.
Aren’t the tech details a bit presumptuous?

#474

What excites me here is cv control. Run this with a sequencer and you’ve got a very clock-stable (and more complex) Thermae for $300ish.

I’d also be interested to hear an engineer’s opinion on some of the tech language (specifically the higher headroom stuff). None of this is a knock on the Rubberneck, which is a fantastic pedal with its own pros and cons.

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#476

I feel like I’m over-posting in this thread. But also wanted to let you know that if you like reverb and motorized faders but do not like having $900, the Chase Bliss/Meris collab preorder just went live:

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#477

If it was $200 less I’d be selling gear and putting this on the credit card. I love the way it sounds, but I think I’m just going to stick with OTO BAM for now. The motorized faders are amazing though. Sadly with Chase Bliss buying used doesn’t mean cheaper.

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#478

I don’t really know too much, but the ADG uses the xvive 3005 which is a pretty expensive chip. 17 dollars if you just want 1 here, tthe rubberneck uses the coolaudio 3205, which is about 6 dollars for the same quantity. Of course at any sort of scale, prices go down, but that’s probably part of it. The other big part is one is created by 2 people and 1 is from a massive multi-sector conglomerate hah

Of course I love the sound of the cheapest of the cheap, the PT2399, so I’m not saying that the price difference is worth it or anything.

#479

I would probably buy this if it had regular knobs and not the automated sliders. Seems like a way of making the pedal significantly more expensive and does not feel as reliable or seems more likely to be something that could malfunction than just a knob.

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