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Did some pedal arrangement yesterday. Tough to get everything in frame clearly with my phone, but here it is.
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The Boredbrain Patchulator is rigged so I can run my bass
1. Dry into the looper (on the floor), then through the pedals.
2. Through the OD and cab sim and Zoia and delay, then into the looper.
3. Through the OD and cab sim and Zoia, then the looper, then the delay.

I haven't tested the third patch, but the first two function as intended. It's nice to be able to switch the looper order around with minimal cable arrangement.
 
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monsterthompson said:
Did some pedal arrangement yesterday. Tough to get everything in frame clearly with my phone, but here it is.
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The Boredbrain Patchulator is rigged so I can run my bass
1. Dry into the looper (on the floor), then through the pedals.
2. Through the OD and cab sim and Zoia and delay, then into the looper.
3. Through the OD and cab sim and Zoia, then the looper, then the delay.

I haven't tested the third patch, but the first two function as intended. It's nice to be able to switch the looper order around with minimal cable arrangement.
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The Zoia scares me.
What do you use the pocket sampler for?
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
The Zoia scares me.
What do you use the pocket sampler for?
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Don't let it scare you. It's daunting to learn the modules it has, but once you know (and there's a list) you can patch easily.


The PO Tonic is just chilling for some fancy metronome or simple drum machine functions.
 
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Alright. My brain is clearly working harder these days. I managed to start working on ideas with the PO as a drum machine, running into the Echo System delay to spice up the basic beat I programmed. Then I ran my bass through my dirt section and into my looper. I was able to play a clean riff and dirty overlying melody. The whole thing sorta stayed in time for a while.

I feel the next step will be layering in my Reverb pedal. Presumably after the looper so the looper doesn't cut off any Reverb tails.

I got my Zoia running as a compressor. Tonight, I made it a parallel compressor, with a dry mix and a VCA volume control. The looper was helpful in building this, as I could loop a constant into the Zoia and hear the resulting adjustments. Honestly, a looper is such a great tool for tweaking your pedal settings, freeing your hands up from playing. It's also interesting to hear the looper sound at living room volume vs. the sound you hear when playing. It's remarkable how much the acoustic string sound can blend into the sound coming from the speaker, resulting in a brighter tone than you might actually be producing.
 
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...what I need to do next is figure out if I can make a set of virtual midi knobs/controllers in Zoia and send external messages to the Reverb and/or EchoSystem. The Echo can run dual delay engines in parallel, so it could be two delays in theory, and the Zoia could send CC messages so the Echo wouldn't depend on knob positions. As it is, if you switch between delay engines, the knob position on the Echo will override the programmed settings of the current active engine as soon as you move the knob. It would be nice to control the settings independently of the physical knobs when running two engines.
Hmmm.
 
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monsterthompson said:
...what I need to do next is figure out if I can make a set of virtual midi knobs/controllers in Zoia and send external messages to the Reverb and/or EchoSystem. The Echo can run dual delay engines in parallel, so it could be two delays in theory, and the Zoia could send CC messages so the Echo wouldn't depend on knob positions. As it is, if you switch between delay engines, the knob position on the Echo will override the programmed settings of the current active engine as soon as you move the knob. It would be nice to control the settings independently of the physical knobs when running two engines.
Hmmm.
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On a side note, to anyone doubting radial DI toughness.....the one in the pic ( regular pro di) comes from the sound renforcement place I use to work at. Paid peanuts...

It has probably been used in more gigs than all of us combined times 10, in water, snow, cold, dust, mud.tossed in containers like baseballs. Used as a hammer. You name it. It's still going strong.

I added even more stickers on it since there are so many on gigs. To avoid that someone "mistakenly" takes mine.

Same with my 57 mics. Bright yellow electrical tape on them. Try and take it buddy...... freakin thieves every gig.
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
On a side note, to anyone doubting radial DI toughness.....the one in the pic ( regular pro di) comes from the sound renforcement place I use to work at. Paid peanuts...

It has probably been used in more gigs than all of us combined times 10, in water, snow, cold, dust, mud.tossed in containers like baseballs. Used as a hammer. You name it. It's still going strong.

I added even more stickers on it since there are so many on gigs. To avoid that someone "mistakenly" takes mine.

Same with my 57 mics. Bright yellow electrical tape on them. Try and take it buddy...... freakin thieves every gig.
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I was looking at my Radial DI, the other day, the double one, and thought to myself that I could easily kill a home intruder with it.
 
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lordradish said:
I was looking at my Radial DI, the other day, the double one, and thought to myself that I could easily kill a home intruder with it.
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I remember one gig the techs literally chizzled out the di boxes out of ice chunks because the lighting cables melted the snow and made huge ice blocks.

Once dry....good as new. Even I was...."holy #&#:#-##-"

At the shop we had to test everything that came back. None of them needed any repairs.....I'm not making this up.
 
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monsterthompson said:


This dude has some dope Elektron jams on YT. @dukeorock (or anyone) do you have any sense of how the Elektron workflow on the OT relates to other devces like this one?
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That is a cool jam! Been tempted by the Digitone for awhile. I've played around with one and used to own a Digitakt. They sort of prepare you for the OT in that they're much easier, but share some concepts. My DT helped 'some' but the OT is probably the toughest Elektron box to learn, but it's also the most powerful. Just take it in small chunks and don't try to learn everything at once. It's impossible to do and too frustrating to try :)
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Still after watching many of those....I'm wondering is more pad sampler step sequencer????

Something else.....
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This unit (Digitone) is an FM synth with some subtractive synth elements. It's got sequence capabilities. It can make drum sounds and you can sound swap per step so it can appear to have more sequence lanes and sounds than advertised. For example, you could play a kick and a lead in the same sequenced lane assuming they didn't need to trigger on the same step.
 
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