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3 hours ago, Bass-Face said:

Watching this as I was thinking the same thing 

Easily done with an MC6. You can even label the buttons via the display to say stuff like “chorus”, “distortion” etc.

On 17/05/2020 at 17:03, Al Krow said:

@dodge_bass who commented above has had both and mentioned in his post that he preferred the GR over the GR2 (in fact I have his former GR2!) as he found it easier to dial in his sound. 

Quite a few fans of the C4 on BC (I don't have one myself) I'm sure you'll have fun with that digital pedal. Be prepared to get your PC out for patch editing though - I'm afraid that's the bit where it leaves me cold!

You don’t necessarily need to get a PC out to edit patches (though it’s easier) as it can be done with an iOS or Android device plugged into the second input. You can easily add and access other user presets that way too. Or you can simply use the knobs to tweak the six button-accessible presets and never use an editor. The Spectrum is arguably better for that as all four knobs have dual functions whereas two of the C4’s knobs only have a single function. 

34 minutes ago, prowla said:

Might be that, but I think I've had items daisy-chained before; I may go back and try some more diagnosis out at some point. 🙂

How do you mean “daisy chained”?

Windows only allows one instance of USB MIDI. I cannot have the FI editor open and use my Morningstar web midi editor at the same time. Once one is open, the other either won’t boot or won’t receive data. I’ve never tried using the FI via pc with a usb keyboard connection but imagine the same problem will occur. I usually use the DIN port on my keyboard and go into either my interface or the MC8. Previously I’ve done it with the UM-One mk2 - plugging the um-one mk2’s “out” cable into the FI’s MIDI input and the keyboard’s MIDI out into the UM-one mk2’s “in” cable. Does the Akai also have DIN ports? If so, you could power it via usb but use the DIN port to send the midi signals, which might solve your problem. 

30 minutes ago, prowla said:

Might be that, but I think I've had items daisy-chained before; I may go back and try some more diagnosis out at some point. 🙂

Also, you should unplug the FI midi out port if you’re not writing patches to the pedal as it can cause midi loop problems otherwise. 

@prowla your keyboard problem might be that windows only allows one instance of midi over usb at once. 

13 hours ago, prowla said:

How to connect the editor to it and get sounds out.

I wasn't looking at building a sound - just how to get something at all from the editor, without twiddling knobs/sliders; maybe one of the existing sounds.

Well, I had both In and Out connected (ie. computer MIDI Out connected to FI MIDI In port and computer MIDI In plugged into the FI's MIDI Out port).

I tried saving one sound from the FI to file, but the editor crashed, so I didn't know if it was connecting or not (it did this every time I tried; I only specified program #1 to pull) but then I chose the option to save all programs from FI to files and that worked!

Having done that, I was then able to use the +/- buttons in the editor (also left/right arrow keys) to go through the programs and control/tweak the FI settings in real-time.

Yep using the Akai as a keyboard, instead of the little one at the bottom of the editor.

I could play a note on the virtual keyboard and it was OK, but swapping the keyboard setting to the Akai only worked once for me.

(Yes, I selected it as the Keyboard, with the FI as both Input and Output in the Preferences dialog.)

You only need to hook up one cable when performing any function other than writing patches to the pedal’s memory slots (midi out from computer to midi in on FI). Have you read the FAQ section? This is covered there under the item called “how do I listen to and add new sounds to my pedal”.

44 minutes ago, prowla said:

The manual could do with a "Hello World!" section, describing how to connect for the first time and get a sound out.

Do you mean getting sounds from the pedal itself as a stand-alone thing? Or do you mean how to connect it to the the editor and get sounds via it?

Did you read the section on “how to build your first sound”?

47 minutes ago, prowla said:

The app could use an indicator that it has connected to the FI, or maybe a "Check connection" menu option.

Not sure if that’s even possible as it’s only one-way communication from the computer to the pedal (except when writing patches to the pedal).

55 minutes ago, prowla said:

I tried using a small Akai LPK25 USB keyboard and it worked on one run of 4. (I was running it on a Windoze 10 laptop.)

What do you mean worked on one run of 4? Do you mean it only made sound on about 25% of the patches? Some patches are comprised of instrument-derived sound only so have no synth content and so a keyboard won’t work. Did you select the Akai as the “keyboard input instrument”?

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

I thought this is a midi controller?🤔

 

It is. I’d recommend the Morningstar MC6 over this though, unless you need massive buttons. MC6 can send up to 16 messages per button and has two toggle positions and several different actions per button. It’s so versatile and can be set up to do whatever you like.

I set mine up to play chords on the FI.

14 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Hello hive mind, can this be used in conjunction with my FI?

https://www.behringer.com/Categories/Behringer/Accessories/Midi-Foot-Controllers/FCB1010/p/P0089#googtrans(en|en)

Yes. What do you want to do with it?

1 hour ago, Chuckasaurus said:

I’m seriously interested in this. What is the nut width incidentally? 

Standard Stingray is 1.6875” (1 11/16”) or 42.86mm.

Classics are thinner at 1.625” (1 5/8”)or 41.3mm.

18 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

Well worth getting  their Master Plan compilation which has early Kool and the Gang all over it, not surprising when the band featured the younger brother of Ronald and Kool and Ronald, with the latter doing the arrangements and production

Thanks for sharing that. I’ve got their albums loaded up for listening today. 

48 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

Something slightly different from Labelle that I stumbled across and enjoyed: 

 

Those albums (Nightbirds, Chameleon, Phoenix, Pressure Cookin’ ) are great. Three of them were available as one of those classic albums collections. I bought this one separately. 

12 hours ago, stewblack said:

I am trying to reset the tuner on my FI. I power on while holding the left footswitch down, then turn the Parameter dial to Note Off Level, the screen first reads 3.03, then very briefly bSS but before I can do anything else it just reverts to the usual bank/programme / data values.

Am I missing something?

 

 

Hold the button longer. You need to start holding the button down before you insert the power cable. Continue holding the button down until after the firmware version number and instrument mode have both been displayed. I might reword this bit of the manual in the next revision to make this clearer.

If you turn the parameter dial to “note off level” before you perform the above action then you’ll know you’ve performed it correctly as you’ll see “rS” (reset) shown in the display. 

1 hour ago, Daz39 said:

Hah - I knew you'd corrupt a clever eq pedal into another filter - you just want to confuse all the 'which filter pedal do I need?' posters!

Does it have a similar function to the EQ1 with the random sweep thingy? 

I’ve never used the original EQ pedal so don’t know what features it has. The EQ2 doesn’t have a random sweep. I did ask about putting in an LFO and basic envelope like in the modulation pedals; Jesse had considered it but wanted to avoid the whole MIDI clock thing.

I managed to get it to do phasers too as you can dial in four sweepable notches internally (more via midi).

It is indeed a very powerful tool. The tuner is great and will replaces tuners on boards easily. It can be used as a very tasty foot-sweepable filter. You can sweep four bands using the onboard external control section. Via MIDI you can sweep all 10, feed them moving patterns like the Moog MURF. Ironically for foot sweepable stuff it’s better for that than the C4 as it covers the whole 20Hz-20KHz range whereas the C4 caps at 6Khz.

Here I use the C4’s factory patch “EDM Swell” into the EQ2 to sweep the filters.

Due to the dual channel arrangement, you can use the pedal at two points in your signal chain simultaneously with independent settings.

I’m discovering loads of cool stuff today.

The 2i4 has MIDI, but it’s not good enough to handle Future Impact firmware updates and full memory writes, but is good for every other midi application I’ve used it for. 

What’s the reasoning behind the reversed P pickup in their 2-pickup models when the single-pickup version has it in standard configuration? And how does it differ?

3 hours ago, lowdown said:

 

Excellent. Never heard of this band but will be checking out more of it. Thanks for sharing. 

Got closer to the Pony sound using a combination of elements from Annette's version and of my previous version:

C4 as a drum machine anyone?

38 minutes ago, bubinga5 said:

 

Probably my favourite Steely Dan record (with Pretzel Logic a close second).

2 hours ago, P-Belly Evans said:

Now for the ace up my sleeve. One of my all time fave live albums.... You wanna some bass... Oh the bass is so up front on this and I LOVE IT.........

POW.

 

 

 

Another great one. I’ve had this for over ten years and in fact was just listening to it again a few weeks ago. A brilliant live set.