Recent content by StormJH1

Really excited to check out some of the new patches from @Quatschmacher - thanks as always for your amazing work. Hope to try them out in the next few days - I use them on guitar so I sometimes will go in, fix the input level for my gear, and pitch down a few of the voices -1 (if necessary)...

It can be tricky to get the volume right with C4. Yes, there is an output volume for patches that works, and it's assigned to an alternate function knob on C4. But synth sounds are different than guitar sounds in terms of both waveform and the frequency ranges in which they operate. So there...

Right, so the C4 recognizes USB MIDI "out of the box", but only if the thing you are controlling it with serves as a "USB Host" - a concept I was not even familiar with until I owned the C4. So I think a desktop computer does this, but in terms of gear that you'd find on a pedal board, it's...

I've experimented with the phone/tablet app, but the only thing I really trust it to do is to send over patches with the 3.5mm to INPUT 2 cable that came with C4. And that's problematic for a lot of people because virtually all new iDevices no longer even have a headphone jack. So, you're...

DXB 11 by @TheHook is a fantastic preset. It's like a quick decay FM Bass but with some of those digital overtones in the finish. I couldn't believe I was hearing a guitar through a pedal instead of something like a DX7. It was recommended to me a few pages ago, I think, along with FMB1, but...

@rsmith601 & @fivestringgecko - Those are some great suggestions! Thanks for the detailed responses and I will be experimenting with those on different patches. In many cases, the quick decay of notes is actually quite useful (staccato bass patterns, for example). But I was playing around...

What is the prevailing wisdom as to how to improve the sustain of the C4 Synth without compromising note tracking? Compressors would be the obvious choice to stop the notes from decaying prematurely, and I've seen examples online where people have used compressors before C4, after C4, and even...

Without question, the selection of presets on the SY-1 and SY-200 could have been better calibrated to the tastes that a music-consuming buyer of pedal would want in there. If you look at the community presets for the Source Audio C4, for example, yes, there's thousands of patches on there with...

Nothing but positive things to say about the SA168 adapter, the thing just works. Now the only problem I have is that my main pedalboard with HX Stomp is completely stuffed and I'm wondering if there is any way to cram my C4 back onto it!

Right, so if you plug the C4 into a desktop computer (or the phone app using a CCK, I believe), you are able to change the MIDI channel of the C4 that way. The SA168 is basically just a cable/adapter. I has some processing going on to translate MIDI to whatever can be understood by the...

I mean, the SY-300 and SY-1000 are $900 and $1,200, respectively, and the latter is the size of small pedalboard. I just think that synth effects are a niche subset of guitar players (maybe less so with bass players) and that's a big ask. Also, BOSS gear generally does not invoke the kind of...

I understand. The unit looks pretty unassuming, so it'd be easy to confuse with one of those $12 Amazon MIDI dongles. But what it actually does is pretty amazing - turning the control input jack into essentially the MIDI IN jack that the C4 (and other SA pedals) didn't originally have. IMO...

Just wanted post about the new Source Audio MIDI adapter (SA168). I got it $49 from American Musical Supply, and it shipped in 2 days. What this does is essentially add 5-pin DIN MIDI connectivity by way of a couple of adapter cables. Because it plugs into the 1/8” Control jack, it avoids the...

This is a great analysis of the SY-1. It’s also the reason I ended up buying the Source Audio C4 (and joined TalkBass to discuss it, even though I’m just a guitar player faking bass for loops). They really are quite different. C4 rocks at huge monophonic leads and bass sounds, while SY-1 has...

Thank you for the response! The answer to your question is that I play with headphones most of the time (family and volume control reasons), but also have a 12" Alto PA when want to play with a speaker. So it should be FRFR. I agree with what you are saying - the only reason the question...