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Need a review on this one. I really wanna play one.

I find the tracking quiet bad. My technique is a bit sloppy. Muting your notes a bit, will help tracking. Remember it's monophonic, so one note at a time. Tracking is at it's best with my Rickenbacker 4001v63. Much better than with my Geddy Lee Jazz bass. Hardly any latency though, so that's a good thing. Anyway for this price it's definitely worth checking out, but don't expect miracles. I use it with my Macbook(Absynth,FM8,SampleMoog).

Im thinking of giving it a shot. Would be cool to control Moog VST's on my laptop

I need the biggest Pedaltrain anyhow because of my Carl Martin Octaswitch. They should at least add Mark Bass, EHX, TC Electronics

They haven't got Electro Harmonix?

Thanks a lot Do you think it's suitable for not to fast lead synth?

Anyone tried this bass to midi converter yet? [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Sonuus-B2M~ID~13223.asp"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~S...2M~ID~13223.asp[/url]

got a reply yet ??

I liked my Behringer Chorus better than my Boss Ceb-3 soundwise. The building quality of the Behringer isn't very good though.

Yeah I've got much, much better results. I've said it before, probably on Talkbass, but this movie is really crappy and doesn't do the pedal right. I've got much better tracking results. If I were Signor Mark Bass I would ask this german webstore to remove this video Dont know if u heard them already, but here are some better sound samples; [quote name='phagor' post='691938' date='Dec 23 2009, 12:02 AM']Thanks squire. I didn't want to post the clips here and step on lapolpora's toes, as he said he was gonna do some... but maybe he's been busy, probably got better things to do than make silly noises! But here's what I've done: Finally got round to making some clips. In the first clip I run through the presets one by one. [url="http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8510304"]Markbass Super Synth Presets Demo[/url] Bear in mind that these are the unedited presets - I would probably tweak each one to suit the song or my playing style, especially the dynamics. Demos 1 - 9 are synth presets 1 - 9 Demos 10 - 12 are octaver presets 1 - 3 Apologies to all the fine musicians whose songs I've butchered Next are some random bits and pieces. [url="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=1021221&songID=8510303"]Markbass Super Synth Stuff[/url] Demo one is a C major scale running down from C 3rd fret on the A string to C 1st fret on the B string, and using the open A and E strings. Next is the bare sound of one oscillator, filter wide open, no resonance, no envelope, no dynamics. C 3rd fret on A string. Third is all three oscillators, no detune. Fourth demo is all three oscillators, this time with osc 2 + 3 detuned - nice and phat! Demo five is a simple envelope controlling the filter, moderate attack and release. Demo six is a big ol' filter sweep - no attack, max release. Watch your speaker level for this Seven is me attempting to demonstrate how the tracking briefly plays the previous pitch. I play a high C (17th fret G string) then a low one (1st fret B string). On the low note you may briefly hear a blip at the beginning as the effect plays the higher note, then changes to the lower one a fraction of a second later. It's pretty quick - I repeat those notes again. Then the same again with the low note as C 3rd fret A string, then C 5th fret G string. It's not really noticeable on the higher notes. Finally I swap the original low and high notes. Again, the effect is not noticeable as the pedal can figure out the pitch of a high note much quicker than a low note. Next I solo the octaver tones. First note is my dry bass sound, C (3rd on the A again). Next is the Octave +1 tone on its own. Then the Octave -1, and finally the Octave -2. Next segment is all three octave tones at equal volume. Note that like the synth, you can't totally eliminate the dry bass sound! Last demo is the same with the dry bass mixed back in. I hope that gives you an idea what this pedal can do. If you have anything specific you want to hear, let me know. I'm not going to have much chance to play over the Christmas period, but I'll see what I can do.[/quote]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='715181' date='Jan 16 2010, 09:43 PM']The Akai SB1 Deep Impact is very good, but like hens teeth now and can tend to be a little fragile. I run a full MIDI set up at home but have had endless hassles with the piezo transducers...still waitin' for replacements too.[/quote] I have the Super Synth and it really pleasures my synth needs. I recommend you to check it out at a store which let you check out the editing software too. But to each his own I don't really like the synth sounds in the V-Bass. Here is a thread on talkbass on a new pitch to midi converter. Although I really doubt if it will be any good. Tracking and latency will probably be an issue. [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617641"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617641[/url]

[quote name='basstard' post='711955' date='Jan 13 2010, 10:38 PM']I still haven't been able to download the software yet!!! I have registered the pedal on the Markbass site and tried four times, all unsuccessfully, to download the software. I have emailed MarkBass and they haven't replied so far. Has anyone else had this problem? The USB/editor facility is the MAJOR reason I bought this pedal (which, by the way, tracks better than the Akai Deep Impact which I also own and the Octavius Squeezer which I recently sold bacause of the LACK of an editor) so I am looking forward to Mark Bass getting back in touch with me....[/quote] If you are on a Windows PC, I can email you the software if you like.

I still love playing with this pedal, but I'm quiet unlucky with the software to edit the sounds a bit more. I did manage to install the software and to control the presets and hear the difference realtime when I'm controlling the virtual knobs. But I'm not able to store the presets I make on the pedal. I can create a preset. But now I want to store it under Tone 8(USER) on preset 5 for example. Did anyone else tried this yet? I'm not sure if it's my incapableness or a bug in the software. Cheers.

I bought one yesterday and i totally love it. It really has awesome and useful sounds. Without the usb you can already tweak your sounds a lot. I wouldn't buy the pedal just for the octave modus though, but i guess no one will.

Great review and thanks for the soundclips you posted on Talkbass. You're awesome!!

Thanks a lot in advance

Any second impressions to share with us yet?

Thanks a lot for your first impressions. I am looking for that dance house tone. I'm not looking for an octaver or Bootsy Collins tones. If you need any help with uploading sound clips let me know. You can even email them to me and i'll put them online. Let me know when you manage to get dance house synth sounds out of it.

[quote name='lapolpora' post='682953' date='Dec 13 2009, 02:06 PM']I've got one - arrived yesterday.....Didn't expect to get one so soon as everyone is so hungry for it......But it was there so I thought why not I'm in the middle of a busy family weekend right now so haven't even had the chance to fire it up. I will post my thoughts probably tomorrow once the Christmas tree can stand up on its own. This is the first synth pedal I've ever owed though so cannot make any comparisons.[/quote] Some sound demo's would be amazingly awesome. Looking forward to hear your thoughts about it.