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

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I just got it!!!! Great packaging! I wont get to test it out til much later. I didnt have to pay any fees either..
 
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Andras Szalay said:
For you in the US, just to feel better let me explain how I buy components for the FI or other products. Whatever I can I try to buy locally, but many of the specific components are not available here, neither in Hungary, nor in the EU at all. I have to buy these from one of the two US giants, DigiKey or Mouser. They are expensive, but they have an incredible stock. When I have to buy from DigiKey, I pay with credit card, and usually within two days I get notification from Fedex or UPS that I got a package that must be cleared by the customs. I have to fill out a few pages of forms, and after a few more days (while the package is already here) I get it. I have to pay 27% VAT, some customs fee, and the fee for the customs clearance. Thankfully, as the importer is a company, Panda-Audio, I get back the VAT at the end of every quarter (as a private person I would not get it back), and the other two fees are usually not high. Whenever I can I prefer to buy from Mouser, since although they deliver just as well from the US, recently they made up a subsidiary in the Czech republic, so I get a European invoice, no customs, no VAT, nothing. No wonder I prefer to pay somewhat more by Mouser. Still I did not mention that I have to calculate my purchases very carefully, since I get free delivery only if the value is >200$, otherwise both DigiKey and Mouser charge 60$ for the freight.
Once I bought a large stock of inductivities with different values, ca. 2000 pieces from another US company, Newark Electronics. I did no recognize at all that from one of the values they delivered 5 pieces less than what I ordered. One month later my credit card was suddenly charged with 110.12$. I had no idea why. It appeared that they sent me the missing five inductors in the value of 0.12$, with a freight charge of 110$! You can imagine that my adrenalin level went high! Finally I sent back the package, and they payed back the money, but I never buy from them since then...

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Hi @Andras,

I concur with you about Newark Electronics. I'm an Audio Engineer and we do a lot of maintenance and repairs, so we need to purchase parts quite frequently. I've had terrible experiences with Newark as well, and I reside in the US. Mouser and Digikey are much better to deal with and their prices are generally better.

Another company to check out is Antique Electronics. Their website is: Invalid Link Removed
They have a really nice supply of parts and many vintage parts too. They are wonderful to deal with. They are based out of Arizona in the US. I don't know how they handle international transactions, but it may be worth checking out.

Edit: note their website link comes up as "tubesandmore"
 
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@Andras Szalay, I just received my pedal and it's great, thanks very much for your hard work on this.

I would like to request a feature for the next version of firmware - can we have a MIDI CC to toggle bypass / engage on the pedal? The type of logic isn't important, though < 64 bypass, >64 engage is more common. That addition will make integrating the FI into a larger MIDI system a lot easier.

Thanks!
 
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pharaohamps said:
@Andras Szalay, I just received my pedal and it's great, thanks very much for your hard work on this.

I would like to request a feature for the next version of firmware - can we have a MIDI CC to toggle bypass / engage on the pedal? The type of logic isn't important, though < 64 bypass, >64 engage is more common. That addition will make integrating the FI into a larger MIDI system a lot easier.

Thanks!
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I don't have the pedal yet but based on the manual I was going to ask for the EXACT same thing.
 
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pharaohamps said:
@Andras Szalay, I just received my pedal and it's great, thanks very much for your hard work on this.

I would like to request a feature for the next version of firmware - can we have a MIDI CC to toggle bypass / engage on the pedal? The type of logic isn't important, though < 64 bypass, >64 engage is more common. That addition will make integrating the FI into a larger MIDI system a lot easier.

Thanks!
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Damn you guys know too much, I couldn't even repeat that.... :)
What's that?
 
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pharaohamps said:
@Andras Szalay, I just received my pedal and it's great, thanks very much for your hard work on this.

I would like to request a feature for the next version of firmware - can we have a MIDI CC to toggle bypass / engage on the pedal? The type of logic isn't important, though < 64 bypass, >64 engage is more common. That addition will make integrating the FI into a larger MIDI system a lot easier.

Thanks!
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@pharaohamps Can I request that, once this has been done, the next version of the DMC3-XL v2 has a FI preset selectable for one the 3 channels? :)
 
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nshuman said:
@pharaohamps Can I request that, once this has been done, the next version of the DMC3-XL v2 has a FI preset selectable for one the 3 channels? :)
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It's already done! The expression controls the filter cutoff, I just need a way to do bypass. Right now you can use "GM" mode and set the lowest preset to fully dry blend. It's not perfect but it works.
 
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pharaohamps said:
@Andras Szalay, I just received my pedal and it's great, thanks very much for your hard work on this.

I would like to request a feature for the next version of firmware - can we have a MIDI CC to toggle bypass / engage on the pedal? The type of logic isn't important, though < 64 bypass, >64 engage is more common. That addition will make integrating the FI into a larger MIDI system a lot easier.

Thanks!
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haha! exactly what I wanted to request as well! I am not sure though if the bypass mechanism is connected to the micro-processor. but I definitely would love this addition as well!
 

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