Future Impact v3 and now V4

[Kev]

Wonder where that idea came from? 

[Quatschmacher]

6 minutes ago, Kev said:

Wonder where that idea came from? 

If you want to go down that route, clearly MXR lifted a bunch of proposed FI features as their product manager has been hanging around the FI Facebook group for the past few years.

 

In actuality, folks have been asking for a pack of cover band presets for a while and I’d been trying to get them to do it. The success of the MXR finally convinced them that there was a significant portion of potential customers that they were not serving.

 

To be honest, I’m glad of the competition because it’s now given the impetus for the team to implement a bunch of ideas I’ve been pushing for for ages. 

[LukeFRC]

31 minutes ago, Kev said:

Wonder where that idea came from? 

Quincy jones?

[LawrenceH]

Exciting stuff, I'm looking forward to the release! Crossing fingers that portamento on tracked notes made it into this one.

 

Pleased so many of our suggestions on patches are on those lists - even though they're often variations on a theme from a synthesist's perspective, from a practical POV they cover a lot of useful ground.

[Kev]

1 hour ago, Quatschmacher said:

If you want to go down that route, clearly MXR lifted a bunch of proposed FI features as their product manager has been hanging around the FI Facebook group for the past few years.

 

In actuality, folks have been asking for a pack of cover band presets for a while and I’d been trying to get them to do it. The success of the MXR finally convinced them that there was a significant portion of potential customers that they were not serving.

 

To be honest, I’m glad of the competition because it’s now given the impetus for the team to implement a bunch of ideas I’ve been pushing for for ages. 

 

Yup, that's exactly why the MXR has been so successful.  Would be REALLY interesting if Panda changed direction fully and brought out something like the original Deep Impact crossed with the MXR, all the new tech, quality processing and tracking etc but with only a set number of parameters to mess with and all adjustable from the pedal.  Get a decent influencer type on board and it'd easily be as successful as the MXR, perhaps less so now the MXR exists but it'd still do very well.

[Quatschmacher]

28 minutes ago, LawrenceH said:

Crossing fingers that portamento on tracked notes made it into this one.

That’s been in for quite a while already and was made public knowledge. (The only downside is that it’s not adjustable from the panel as the controls were fixed years ago. I did suggest a set of secondary parameters on the dial and I fleshed out a decent UI for it but they didn’t go for it unfortunately.)

Edited 13 minutes ago by Quatschmacher

[LawrenceH]

Excellent! I know it had been mentioned as coming, but at this end no idea about how they manage release schedules of various features.

 

3 minutes ago, Quatschmacher said:

That’s been in for quite a while already and was made public knowledge. 

[LukeFRC]

17 minutes ago, Kev said:

Get a decent influencer type on board

That's Quatschmacher isn't it? 

[Quatschmacher]

9 minutes ago, LawrenceH said:

Excellent! I know it had been mentioned as coming, but at this end no idea about how they manage release schedules of various features.

 

We were initially planning to release the update with new presets, portamento-on-audio-triggering, and onboard patch management features, but the big thing we’re working both progressed faster than expected but also had an impact on some of the things we’d added already. Also, as I’m having to rewrite the manual, I’d rather only have to do it once!

[Quatschmacher]

3 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

That's Quatschmacher isn't it? 

Don’t think I’ve got the headspace to learn new media skills; too much crazy life stuff being flung at me at the moment. If I could partner up with a video/recording wizard, that would help.