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Future Impact now available!! WAS: deep impact reissue!!! interested?

Received my pedal. Here's a picture of my testing it next to my Deep Impact. Woooo!!!!


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Sorry, just kidding. Figured I'd give you guys something else to talk about for a while. :)
 
Here's a semi random question, I know the FI can be controlled by a keyboard, but what about an EWI (USB in particular)? I know the trick to use the EWI without a computer so I imagine it would be possible?

I would 98.5% of the time use the FI for bass any way but just a crazy idea I had :laugh:
 
Here's a semi random question, I know the FI can be controlled by a keyboard, but what about an EWI (USB in particular)? I know the trick to use the EWI without a computer so I imagine it would be possible?

I would 98.5% of the time use the FI for bass any way but just a crazy idea I had :laugh:

You can use the EWI as a controller for parameters and whatnot. Unless I missed it somewhere, the FI does require an audio signal to produce sound though. So you couldn't play the EWI into the FI and get synth tones as an output. You'd need something in between to generate audio from the MIDI output of the EWI.
 
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Actually no, it can be "played" by MIDI notes as far as I understand.

Nice, I totally missed that. Found the relevant section on the page:

- Since FI includes a full featured analog modelling synthesizer, it is possible to use it as a monophonic synthesizer module, driving it from a keyboard controller or a computer through MIDI IN.

In that case, yep the EWI will work. That's awesome!
 
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I'm going to be gone here and there so mostly I just want tracking info so I can plan...would rather it come later when I'm here than me need to arrange with someone else to get it off of my doorstep!