Bananana Quimera synth pedal

[Quatschmacher]

 

[GisserD]

Wow!

[Al Krow]

1 hour ago, GisserD said:

Wow!

 

+1^^

 

Does look amazing! 

[SumOne]

Looks good, I want one!

 

This seems more innovative and interesting than any pedal announced by the big companies at NAMM.

 

Triggering recorded samples I think being unique for a guitar/bass pitch tracking pedal?

 

I'm also interested in using it as a synth midi controlled by a keyboard, my keyboard is piano and organ type stuff and limited synth stuff (basically samples) so plugging this in could really expand that. I know the FI can do that, but this seems to have more hands on editing and the screen.

 

I'm guessing it'll not be cheap, something like £500?

Edited 22 hours ago by SumOne

[Quatschmacher]

3 minutes ago, SumOne said:

Looks good, triggering recorded samples I think being unique for a guitar/bass pitch tracking pedal?

That was an idea I’d had for one of the remaining FI4 apps but it’s not likely to happen now due to another issue.

[Al Krow]

14 minutes ago, SumOne said:

Looks good, I want one!

 

This seems more innovative and interesting than any pedal announced by the big companies at NAMM.

 

Triggering recorded samples I think being unique for a guitar/bass pitch tracking pedal?

 

I'm also interested in using it as a synth midi controlled by a keyboard, my keyboard is piano and organ type stuff and limited synth stuff (basically samples) so plugging this in could really expand that. I know the FI can do that, but this seems to have more hands on editing and the screen.

 

I'm guessing it'll not be cheap, something like £500?

 

If it comes in at £500 or less, although definitely not cheap, that actually doesn't seem like bad value for such innovative and cutting edge tech? And you can pay significantly more for some old-school analogue preamps or Eventide pedals. 

 

Be interesting to see how this stacks up against the Polyend Mess that @Kiwi recently got (currently £519 with Andertons) and also looks excellent. 

[SumOne]

Nice, I hadn't seen the polyend mess, but that looks good too. And there's the Meris Enzo X (currently £539 at Andertons). No sample triggering with either of them though.

 

The Meris and Quimera include a tuner (not sure if the Polyend does) and some more normal effects so perhaps could be used as a stand-alone multi fx pedal?....and a decent bass triggered synth, and a midi controlled keyboard synth.

 

£500 is a lot, but if it is a decent multi fx, bass synth, midi synth,  equivalent to things that are about £200 each then I could convince myself when things like the MXR Bass synth, C4, FI alone are about £250, and a lot of the relatively budget multi fx are about £250.

Edited 21 hours ago by SumOne

[Al Krow]

Sadly, the Meris Enzo X has had a lot of bad press about its poor tracking, and not on my shortlist on that basis.

 

I  personally wouldn't want to use any of them as a standalone multifx eg for clean preamp or drive. But for synth, and also for filter and modulation/pitch shift, for sure!

[Al Krow]

Bananana Effects Quimera: a powerful polysynth pedal for guitars and keys - SYNTH ANATOMY

 

Nice little review posted here.

[Kiwi]

17 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Be interesting to see how this stacks up against the Polyend Mess that @Kiwi recently got (currently £519 with Andertons) and also looks excellent. 

Yeah I had a look at it about a year ago, and decided to keep looking.  Either it was limited in programmability or there was no ADSR on each step, I can't remember exactly.  The Polyend Mess has it's own issues BTW with pitch stability on some steps which I've never encountered with the other pedals (Moment Machine etc.).  I'm assuming this is simply a development snag and it'll get addressed in the future at some point.  

[Al Krow]

2 hours ago, Kiwi said:

Yeah I had a look at it about a year ago, and decided to keep looking.  Either it was limited in programmability or there was no ADSR on each step, I can't remember exactly.  The Polyend Mess has it's own issues BTW with pitch stability on some steps which I've never encountered with the other pedals (Moment Machine etc.).  I'm assuming this is simply a development snag and it'll get addressed in the future at some point.  

 

Oooh how did you manage to get to preview it a year or so back, given they haven't released the Quimera yet?!

[Kiwi]

12 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

Oooh how did you manage to get to preview it a year or so back, given they haven't released the Quimera yet?!

Oh wait, I might have it confused with the previous model.  I wasn't aware there was a new release!  Now I'll have to take a look into that as well.

[Al Krow]

Just now, Kiwi said:

Oh wait, I might have it confused with the previous model.  I wasn't aware there was a new release!  Now I'll have to take a look into that as well.

 

Look forward to getting your thoughts on it!

[Kiwi]

The sound quality sounds pretty good, very hifi and the stability of the polyphonic tracking is impressive.  The lack of an arp funciton is a shame though for me personally given what it's capable of otherwise.  The do an arp pedal called the Tararira which was what I was confusing with this pedal.