Future Impact v3 and now V4

[Quatschmacher]

1 hour ago, Higgie said:

Is this just for V4?

Yes, I’m afraid so. Development for v3 ended at v3.61 (no more code space).

Edited September 22 by Quatschmacher

[Quatschmacher]

Some really interesting discussions happening now around further improvements to onboard patch management/editing. If these come to fruition it’ll be fricking awesome. 

[Quatschmacher]

Curiosity question:

 

What would you rather see?

 

1. Ability to have full parameter editing on the pedal itself (no computer needed)? (Bear in mind the limitations of a 3-digit, 7-segment display.)

 

2. A setlist mode?

Edited 20 hours ago by Quatschmacher

[LawrenceH]

Hi Peter

What is a set list mode?

[MacDaddy]

On 27/09/2025 at 13:45, Quatschmacher said:

Some really interesting discussions happening now around further improvements to onboard patch management/editing. If these come to fruition it’ll be fricking awesome. 

 

 

Will any of this filter down to v3?

[Woodinblack]

16 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

Will any of this filter down to v3?

 

I think that is covered 4 posts up!

[MacDaddy]

1 minute ago, Woodinblack said:

 

I think that is covered 4 posts up!

 

Ah, but you never know!

[Quatschmacher]

1 hour ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

Will any of this filter down to v3?

Absolutely not. V3 has no remaining codespace and all development ended at 3.61 when we began work on v4. 

[Quatschmacher]

1 hour ago, LawrenceH said:

Hi Peter

What is a set list mode?

Basically where you can cycle through a list of presets, say step 1 chooses preset 7, step 2 chooses preset 12, step 3 chooses preset 7 again. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Quatschmacher

[LawrenceH]

Ah ok, thanks. I can see the point of that but personally, full parameter editing would be much more useful. Especially if patch organisation via the pedal is going to be a thing (since I would never use 99 patches for unique voices, I'd just arrange the banks to suit particular sets)

[Quatschmacher]

1 hour ago, LawrenceH said:

Ah ok, thanks. I can see the point of that but personally, full parameter editing would be much more useful. Especially if patch organisation via the pedal is going to be a thing (since I would never use 99 patches for unique voices, I'd just arrange the banks to suit particular sets)

Sadly full patch editing (my personal preference) has been nixed due to being too hard to fully implement the Flexi controllers with the limited panel display. 😔 I’m gutted as I spent quite a long time fleshing out detailed interface ideas for this. 

 

Patch organisation is already in and working though. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Quatschmacher

[LawrenceH]

Ah shame, yeah I did think it was pretty ambitious given the parameter depth/breadth! I remember the 90s S&S synths (eg Korg, Alesis) were really well designed for this - but even they relied on 2x16 LCDs to navigate the menus.

 

Incidentally I have had trouble with the super-cheap midi interface I bought, not sure if it's user error, my computer or the interface itself, but I'm going to order something like the Behringer Go to see if it resolves itself. I've managed to load the odd patch but manual editing seems inconsistent and I wouldn't trust it to update firmware.

[Quatschmacher]

49 minutes ago, LawrenceH said:

Ah shame, yeah I did think it was pretty ambitious given the parameter depth/breadth! I remember the 90s S&S synths (eg Korg, Alesis) were really well designed for this - but even they relied on 2x16 LCDs to navigate the menus.

 

Incidentally I have had trouble with the super-cheap midi interface I bought, not sure if it's user error, my computer or the interface itself, but I'm going to order something like the Behringer Go to see if it resolves itself. I've managed to load the odd patch but manual editing seems inconsistent and I wouldn't trust it to update firmware.

Which FI model do you have? Up to and including v3 can be problematic with cheap interfaces. V4 has worked with every cheap interface I’ve used. The data packet sizes were made deliberately smaller to ensure this. 

Edited 5 minutes ago by Quatschmacher