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  1. Quatschmacher
    Jazz nuts only for me, I’m afraid.
  2. Quatschmacher
    I've been there plenty of times. I have also had plenty of well-paid gigs.
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    As far as I’m aware, yes, Andras IS Panda (though Gábor is closely involved). And yes, I think resources are quite limited and the company is alongside his main work. I want so much for this new version to come to fruition and be the best it can be that I am happy do devote my time and energy to it without the expectation of a (monetary) return. If everything in this life were only done with the expectation of financial gain, then it would be a miserable existence. I’m happy that I’ve been able to make a large contribution to the development of new features and I’m hoping that my work on the manual will help to make the pedal more accessible to others so that more people can use it and make cool music.
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    I just want to state for the record that I do not feel exploited. This was a voluntary role and I knew that upfront. I’ve ended up putting lots of time and thought into it because it’s something I care about a lot; it speaks both to my passions and to my skill set. I certainly wasn’t moaning about not getting paid! It would be AMAZING if I could do this kind of thing for a living so I see this a useful first step towards getting some experience in this area and getting myself out there a bit.
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    I’ve been working on the manual several hours each day for the last few days. Still need to alter a couple of things in the filter section and am awaiting clarification on a few bits elsewhere but I’ve got through a big chunk of it. I’ve still got the two biggest sections to tackle (envelopes and the new flexis). One thing that is proving tricky is the choice of how much new information to include which explains a bit about synthesis along the way. The manual is currently written in a way that assumes a lot of prior knowledge of synthesis and I think many users coming to this pedal don't have that knowledge. There is a bit of a time pressure, I’m doing this for free in my spare time alongside my full-time day job and it’s a lot of work so I’m not sure I’ll be able to turn it into exactly what I think it should be (at least not yet) but will do my best to make it more digestible.
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    Added a few new patch clips: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u2-dJaWdaAbPDnDdWkipu-P7IH_GHLQ2 They should appear first in the folder when sorted in last-modified order. 
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    I’m guessing not many have one. Most of us who were interested went for the C4. I do think the Spectrum is priced a little high compared to C4 (in terms of consumer appeal as opposed to recouping development costs).
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    Riddle and Enigma are the same size. God it has been slow around here.😆
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    Really? Maybe 3 at a push.
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    It does take some patience to dial in. The Fwonk only has three knobs and a more limited parameter range so is easier to dial in. Every sound I got on the Fwonk I was able to replicate on the Enigma (I had both for a good long while).
  11. Quatschmacher
    Six? I think that’s an overestimation.
  12. Quatschmacher
    Also try the EHX QBalls Enigma, it does what the Fwonk can do and more (though is a bit noisier due to its being analogue and the fwonk’s being digital).
  13. Quatschmacher
    Not quite. The Spectrum has two parameters per knob on the lower two; C4 (currently) only has one. Also, there are some knob assignments which are possible on Spectrum but not on C4, notably lo retain, both filter frequencies combined, both filter resonances combined and both envelope speeds combined.
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    That is correct.
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    Update from Andras about v3: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/future-impact-now-available-was-deep-impact-reissue-interested.1115025/page-265#post-23028343
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    My plan to check it out today was thwarted by the music shop being shut for two days to reconfigure their systems.
  17. Quatschmacher
    Thanks. Sorry, I overlooked the phrase “the latter” as I only glanced briefly. Obviously you answered my question the first time.
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    I can’t speak for the Ernie Ball volume pedal as I don’t know the specs. Most passive expression pedals will work (I use a Moog EP-3). You can set up the Hub (via the neuro editor software) to send out any midi cc number from the expression and external control inputs. You need to set it to “midi out” otherwise it doesn’t send out the expression control cc CC 11 and 74 are hard routed on the FI to control the filter. It depends on which CCs are programmed in the patches as to what will be controlled. Midi CC1 is the most common as it’s the one which is the mod wheel on pretty much all synths. That’s the one I’ve used consistently. If you don’t already have a source Audio Hub or any Source Audio pedals then there are probably better choices out there that offer a few other useful functions.
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    So it allows dry bass to be played on top?
  20. Quatschmacher
    It’s not even the most exciting new feature.
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    You’ll need a sustain or an expression pedal and something that will send the midi CCs from those to the FI. I’m using my Source Audio Hub at the moment but there are other devices ( from Morningstar, Disaster Area, etc) that would do that and allow you to send program change messages and other midi CCs. Having an expression pedal will be essential to getting the best out of v3 with the new flexi controllers (mod matrix). Most of my patches have some kind of morphing applied to midi CC1. If you check out the clips I posted earlier, you can hear some of that.
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    What does the freeze feature on the SY-1 actually do? Does it allow further triggering of synth notes while sustaining others (if so, what is the maximum polyphony)? If not, is it just allowing dry bass to be played over a synth wash?
  23. Quatschmacher
    It’s a forthcoming (post-v3) rather than currently-available feature. There is no sustain stage in the envelopes in the current publicly-available version so would have probably been tricky to achieve.
  24. Quatschmacher
    Not yet but is on the roadmap. @owen I had to amend this as I had mistakenly thought it was coming in the update.
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    In the course of cleaning up the English in the manual, I came across a nugget of information that I’d overlooked: I always knew that if the sum of the “volume” sliders of two or more oscillators exceeded 127 then foldover distortion occurred. What I hadn’t realised was that a similar thing occurs within a single oscillator. That is to say, if the sum of the volumes of two (or all three) waveforms within a single oscillator exceeds 127 then foldover distortion also occurs. This is a big discovery for me and I am annoyed I overlooked it. It could lead to some pretty cool sounds. Likewise, it explains why I was getting unexpected results when adding a triangle wave in a single oscillator block where the saw was already at 127! While we are on the subject, I’d be interested to know if sections of the manual that users find unclear as it might help me to know which sections to expound upon. Currently I’m cleaning up the English and adding information I feel is lacking.
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