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

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kerryg said:
Having said that – is “meaningful graphics” on the agenda? I know from a coder’s POV it seems completely correct and accurate to state “midi note numbers” to represent cutoff frequencies for filters (since apparently that’s what they are displaying). But any end user is going to find it more intuitive to see those translated into their frequency equivalent on the strip.
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To be honest, I never normally pay that much attention to what the numbers are, I tend to just use my ears to get the sound I want. Also, other companies like Sequential and Source Audio use standard 0-127 or 0-256 labels on all their parameters. Moog uses 1-10 on most of their dials.

I wouldn’t mind frequencies on LFOs to be honest but I’m pretty certain that’s not on the cards.
 
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Hello all,

I would like to thank you all for your patience waiting for Future Impact V3 (this will be the official name). As you may remember an international team of 8 experts was formed a few months ago working voluntarily on sound design and bug tracking. We planned to stop the development of new features for the FI, and concentrate on finishing the rest of the work, which is a lot anyway; writing the new manual, writing the new editor, and creating many sounds, 99 of them included in the default set of the FI, and many more offering to our customers free of charge. But as this team started to work a huge number of new ideas came up (most of them from Peter). We were hesitating if we should rather release 3.00 as it is, and include these ideas in later upgrades. However, there was a good reason why we decided rather to delay the release, and work on including these ideas right now. The reason was that the new ideas would require again new changes in the program file structure, and this is a very inconvenient subject both for us in the development, and just as well for the users. We want to provide our users a 100% compatibility with sounds that were developed earlier and stored in the old *.prg format. So, now we included all these new ideas in a software that offers a revolutionary way to modulate and control all parameters of your sound in real-time. Now we are really very close to the end. Both the FI software and the editor are in beta testing phase, with almost all features ready. The team developed already quite many amazing new sounds, and Peter is checking and formatting the new manual that I have written. We will release the new FI V3 devices with a new graphics design, and we will offer all our customers the new software free of charge for upgrade within a few weeks.

Andras Szalay
 
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I think the v3 is referring mostly to the software. Andras mentioned new graphics, but the physical pedal itself I don't think is changing. It sounds like new pedals will have a different graphic and come with the updated software pre installed, the rest of us will just need to update software to have the same thing.
 
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loveandbass said:
What kind of functionality does a midi controller add in?
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You have four modulation slots with a huge list of sources (including many unassigned midi CCs) that you can direct at almost any parameter in the FI and control in real time. This adds incredible expressive potential, morphable sounds.

If by “midi controller” you specifically mean a keyboard, you can play the FI as a keyboard synth, which adds portamento functions not available via bass.
 
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Let me first add my thanks to Andras and his team for working so hard on this, and the same to community members for their hard work on bug testing and patch creation......I’ve bought and sold a lot of pedals in the past, but this one is mine and it’s staying that way!

Now for a request if it’s possible to implement (for all I know you thought of this already). I move between bass and guitar frequently, would it be possible to implement the switch between bass and guitar mode using a similar approach to the tuner, so activating the tuner would be a two second press on the foot switch, switching bass/guitar could be a five or seven second press. As an alternative perhaps a midi cc could be utilised for the switch, I understand this would only be of use to those of us who use midi though. Just an idea but it would be sooooooo helpful and I’m guessing save a little strain on the power socket.
 
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Olark said:
I move between bass and guitar frequently, would it be possible to implement the switch between bass and guitar mode using a similar approach to the tuner, so activating the tuner would be a two second press on the foot switch, switching bass/guitar could be a five or seven second press.
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This is an awesome and important idea. Would be great to switch between guitar and bass with the press of a switch. Maybe an option in the setup to switch between tuner and guitar/bass with press and hold.

(Many of us will probably not use the tuner, because we gave that separately. I have like 3 tuner capable pedals + an actual tuner on my board...)
 
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hejmathias said:
This is an awesome and important idea. Would be great to switch between guitar and bass with the press of a switch. Maybe an option in the setup to switch between tuner and guitar/bass with press and hold.

(Many of us will probably not use the tuner, because we gave that separately. I have like 3 tuner capable pedals + an actual tuner on my board...)
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In my humble opinion there are not too many users who would use the pedal this way, switching the mode between songs. The other thing is that I have a doubt that the same amplifier, mixer channel for bass and guitar is a good idea at all. In a pro setup it is two amps (or two mixer channels) and two FI pedals.
 
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Charlie Tuna said:
Can the FI do a sound like Zach gets at 4:25 in this video. He is using a Mobius (Rotary setting) and H9 (octave up) to get a nice organ sound.
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Do you mean from the FI alone or also in conjunction with a Mobius?

You might be able to get something similar by stacking up four oscillators corresponding to the pitches of common drawbar footage settings, maybe using triangle waves to get close to the sine wave sound. You’d need to have an idea what the Mobius’ filter is doing in order to try and replicate its behaviour.
 
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Lippi said:
In my humble opinion there are not too many users who would use the pedal this way, switching the mode between songs. The other thing is that I have a doubt that the same amplifier, mixer channel for bass and guitar is a good idea at all. In a pro setup it is two amps (or two mixer channels) and two FI pedals.
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It would still be very convenient to be able to switch modes using MIDI rather using than the current process.
 
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Quatschmacher said:
Do you mean from the FI alone or also in conjunction with a Mobius?

You might be able to get something similar by stacking up four oscillators corresponding to the pitches of common drawbar footage settings, maybe using triangle waves to get close to the sine wave sound. You’d need to have an idea what the Mobius’ filter is doing in order to try and replicate its behaviour.
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Thanks for the reply. I’m thinking with the FI by itself. Sounds like a complex sound to achieve but will be fun to see what other sounds come out during the quest.
 
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