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I’m running both my BassRigs off a single output from a Zuma with negligible noise.

Here’s a question I’d be keen to hear the answer to: how does the MXR deal with tuning when the string energy decays? Does the pitch drop as the note rings out when held for a long time? This is something that makes a huge difference. In the C4, you can hear the pitch drop off noticeably. The Future Impact handles this far better. The earlier version would cut off the note dead as soon as the unit detected pitch drop. The v4 is even better as there’s now a rolling buffer which stores the pitch value, so when the unit detects a small pitch drop in the string it takes the previous correct value from the buffer and holds that pitch for as long as the string continues to ring out. It’s an awesome feature, and allows the full release time of the ADSR to be used with rock-solid pitch throughout.

Stereo chorus and/or delay can sound wonderful on synth bass. Obviously more widely used on lead and chordal stuff though. And stacked stereo bass with subtly different settings on each side can be really great. Moog Voyager does this sort of thing, having two low pass filters in stereo output.

I can see why folks might be irked by having to choose between stereo and expression. Shame they couldn’t have made the normal audio output into a TRS socket for the stereo option. Compromises always have to be made somewhere; like in the C4, you can either have stereo output or an external loop function but not both.

There are some things out there that will convert MIDI to passive expression signals: https://oldbloodnoise.com/pedals/p/mtet-midi-to-expression-translator

Slightly easier when the options are more restricted, but very good point.

You could probably even use a latching TRS switch in place of the expression pedal to immediately jump between two values, or use the expression pedal trimmer to get the full output range over a shorter travel to effectively mimic a switch.

Don’t forget that with an expression pedal you can effectively have two different presets built into one at extreme ends of the pedal travel, but also all the points in between.

The only potential thing I see is that after cycling through the 8 presets, it always goes back to panel mode so you’d have to make sure nothing crazy was dialled up there to avoid a nasty surprise.

Aw thanks! I really appreciate that.

Bumping as I’ve amended the list.

I like things like this (and I say this as someone who’s gone deep on the FI and C4 editors).

Looks like you can use an external tap switch as a dedicated preset switch.

That’s simply a case of assembling an alternative bank of 99. Could be a rainy day project for me now that I’m definitely losing my day job.

That’s simply not true: they are patches 21-29, as they have been since v3.00. See here: https://www.auraplug.com/panda/downloads/FI411_DefaultSounds.pdf

Manual is up: https://www.jimdunlop.com/content/manuals/MB301.pdf

I think we all end up there eventually. 😂

There’s a mode which allows the footswitch to be used to scroll presets; mentioned in one of the videos. Even some actual keyboard synths don’t fare loads better in terms of number of presets: Moog Sub Phatty and Subsequent 25 only have 16.

It sounds like you can send just dry bass into it so no reason why the filter can’t be used on that. (There’s an explicit option for the dry to either go through the filter or to bypass it.)

If it’s the same band she had with her last year at the jazz cafe, it’ll be great.