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Could anyone tell me this: when using a phaser preset on the Mercury, does the pedal’s “delay” knob control the frequency of the phaser? I just got a Lunar phaser (after having had a Gemini chorus) as I mostly use phasers and needed the resonance control. I also really want to have a knob for frequency so wondered if that can be achieved by using the Mercury instead. I hope that if SA ever rethink their modulation pedals they follow their newest idea of having user-assignable knobs (as on the C4) and/or a secondary function as on C4 and Spectrum.

I put up a wanted ad for a Source Audio Lunar to which Dave quickly responded. The details were worked out quickly as Dave sent me the pictures I requested the same day and payment was made later that evening. He posted the pedal the very next day and it was delivered the day after that. Our communication was prompt, polite, friendly and informative. The packing was great and the pedal arrived safely and in the condition described. A faultless transaction and I’d be happy to buy from Dave again and can wholeheartedly recommend him to others. Many thanks!

Have you tried my patches yet? I did an OC-2 ish thing, though it may not be honky enough. I used a filtered square wave. Others have used the monophonic pitch shift with a bit of filtering. I also posted an MF101-inspired patch.

Yes, but the monologue won’t adjust the thirds, fifths and sevenths to be scale correct like the C4 does, so there is a difference. Playing root notes of D, G and C in C major on the C4 will yield Dm7, G7 and C maj7 when programmed. It’s pretty neat. But no, not truly polyphonic, which is what I said.

The Source Audio will do polyphony of sorts; from a mono input, it’ll allow chordal output which is either of a fixed-interval nature, or it’ll intelligently harmonise from a given key centre and scale type. I’ve just written and published a few patches which have the dry bass as the root and then play 7th, 3rd, 9th and 5th close-position synth voicings. It won’t replicate your chordal playing input with oscillators though, which is where the Boss wins.

A gimmick, really? I think 40 years of recorded music would show otherwise. (That’s not my being snide, by the way.) For solo lead and bass lines monophony is perfectly useable. In fact, more of the complex routing tends to be used with mono lines as the textures get too busy for polyphony. However, if one really needs the polyphony then fair enough; that’s a case where I’d personally resort to keys as I don’t play guitar any more.

I reckon you’ll dig the C4.

Already an option with @GisserD‘s 3D housing.

How much chordal playing are you doing via bass? Is polyphony really a deal-breaker? I can totally see why guitarists would need this; bassists less so.

At the risk of repeating myself as nauseum, one doesn’t need any synth knowledge to use the C4, there are some pretty tasty user presets in the cloud now and it’s a simple case of one click to audition one, three clicks to burn to a location. Within each preset there are (at present) two user-defined parameters that can be tweaked from the pedal. The bonus being that these tweaks can be saved on the fly if one desires. I think this pedal satisfies all your desires and requirements, Bas, and perhaps that’s the problem - the journey might be over. (I’m prone to this myself.)😁

In the case of the FI, it IS a synth - plug into a controller keyboard and it can be played in exactly the same way as any other dedicated keyboard synth.

I remain unimpressed by the sound of the Boss’s oscillators (as I did for the SY-300).

I’ve posted a few new patches to the cloud today.

Are you trying to write patches to the pedal or just send parameter changes. If the former, make sure both cables are hooked up and selected. If the latter, you only need the MIDI in to be connected. Or maybe your USB port has gone into a power-saving mode.

Get on it!

@Embra have you checked this out yet. I reckon you’ll dig it.

Change monitor resolution or move the taskbar to the side. i have a two-monitor setup now which gets around this.