Thanks for the compliments.
There's basically no organized audio samples and really no videos (I can't make any, sorry). This is literally the 4th one of these boxes I've owned, I think I've finally learned to just keep it.
I purchased it this time purely for the bitcrusher as there's not a lot of those around in general, and certainly not programmable ones with all of the features the VF-1 provides EQ up front/sample reduction/bit crush with a LP/BP/HP resonant filter, a clean blend, then a noise suppressor after. That's a lot of bit crushing options!
Even owning 4 of these, one thing I never actually tried in earnest was the synth effect. I think back when I owned my last boxes I tried it briefly, it tracked like doo doo, and I never tried it again. I know a ton more about synth effects and how to play to them and to program them for decent sounds now, so I'm way ahead of the game than I was before. Unfortunately it still doesn't track super duper great, but there's not a lot of boxes that do. But it tracks pretty good as long as you play within the constraints which for me seems to be 7th fret A string and above. Even then a couple of the notes like 12th fret A seem to track really poorly for whatever reason. And my flatwound Darkstar bass tracks better than my round wound P-bass.
But there seems to be some, maybe a bunch, of potentially usable synth options assuming you like 80's sounding synth using square/saw waveforms. But there's plenty of VCA/VCF options, plus you can run the synth into all of the other normal effects if you want.
I've just spent a couple more hours banging out bass synth patches and am fairly impressed. I'll try to get more patches up on the page. And we'll see what the band thinks tomorrow.
