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

You could probably fudge something. The pedal parameters are set by a combination of CCs 98 and 99 (with their respective values) to select a parameter, the parameter’s value is specified by the value of CC4. I’ve used this to create a midi command for dry instrument volume. The problem is that this makes the pedal think it is communicating with the editor so the display then shows the two horizontal lines.
 
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Hi!
I'm making an external midi controller for FI, and I can change programs with "shortcuts" in this external controller... Also I can "read" which program is selected in FI and shows it in a external lcd...

Well, almost done... But I would like to know if it's possible to FI sends the "name" of the program and How I can read it...
Below a photo of my current "endeavour", the "FX : XXX" still a bogus text, where I would like to write the actual name of FI program.
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Thanks
Perfect idea! Can you share the circuit. That would be great!
 
I’d suggest getting a Morningstar MC6 and you’d be able to do that. You can have it have two-way communication with the MS3 so that changing a patch on one alters what’s visible and useable on the other. I’ve seen a video where someone does this kind of thing with an HX Stomp and MC6 combination, it’s very slick. Basically you could change patch on the MS3 and it would send a message to the MC6 which would then jump to its relevant bank in which the buttons pointed to your chosen FI patches.

Quatschmacher you are a terrible person and I am now the proud owner of a Morningstar MC6. Shame on you for invoking my GAS. I've only had a few minutes to play with it and I already love it, so easy to work with. Going to spend some time with my board and work out if I even need the MS3 any more. Great recommendation thanks!
 
Quatschmacher you are a terrible person and I am now the proud owner of a Morningstar MC6. Shame on you for invoking my GAS. I've only had a few minutes to play with it and I already love it, so easy to work with. Going to spend some time with my board and work out if I even need the MS3 any more. Great recommendation thanks!
Glad you like it. Make sure you update to the latest firmware as they added some cool and useful new features - MIDI channel naming is so useful. The possibilities are astounding. I set up mine to play chords on the FI.
 
Quatschmacher you are a terrible person and I am now the proud owner of a Morningstar MC6. Shame on you for invoking my GAS. I've only had a few minutes to play with it and I already love it, so easy to work with. Going to spend some time with my board and work out if I even need the MS3 any more. Great recommendation thanks!

he did exactly the same thing to me!
 
I love my Morningstar MC6. I use it for quick patch changing, sample triggers, Quantiloop, etc. pretty dope. I gigged with it all last summer and it worked perfectly.

My only gripe. It needs to be mounted to a pedal board when gigging with it because it can rock on you when stepping on it. I noticed this problem when gigging before I had it mounted to my pedal board. They should have angled the construction of the pedal as well. Other than that it is a great midi pedal.
 
I love my Morningstar MC6. I use it for quick patch changing, sample triggers, Quantiloop, etc. pretty dope. I gigged with it all last summer and it worked perfectly.

My only gripe. It needs to be mounted to a pedal board when gigging with it because it can rock on you when stepping on it. I noticed this problem when gigging before I had it mounted to my pedal board. They should have angled the construction of the pedal as well. Other than that it is a great midi pedal.
They addressed the angled top in the MC8.
 
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Looking for an arpeggiator pedal to go with the future impact,
Possible earthquake arranging or Bananana Effects Tararira, any suggestions please
You can arpeggiate the FI with any Midi sequencer so look at non-pedal stuff like Korg SQ1 and Arturia Keystep too. I’m sure there are small hardware sequencers too, maybe by companies like Teenage Engineering. There are probably even app-based sequencers that spit out MIDI.
 
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EQD Arpanoid can do that.
The choices of what that pedal does are fairly limited as it seems to always play a scalic pattern over a one-octave range. A small MIDI sequencer/arpeggiator would be a much better option as it would allow free input and a wider range and could most likely be synced to midi clock. It would likely be cheaper too.
 
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I'm sure it's been asked, so sorry to probably tread over ground again, but is there a way to download all of the patches from the program database or do I have to click into each one, download and then unzip? Also, is there a way to see just the Bass specific patches? Seems like there are 3 files, one for bass, one for guitar, and one for MIDI controller...though I do notice some differences in params when I click through them. I'm starting to try to dive in and understand this beast. Making some board re-arrangements and looking to reprogram my ES-8 so no better time to really sit down with the future impact!


EDIT: Nevermind, I discovered the "Packs"
 
I'm sure it's been asked, so sorry to probably tread over ground again, but is there a way to download all of the patches from the program database or do I have to click into each one, download and then unzip? Also, is there a way to see just the Bass specific patches? Seems like there are 3 files, one for bass, one for guitar, and one for MIDI controller...though I do notice some differences in params when I click through them. I'm starting to try to dive in and understand this beast. Making some board re-arrangements and looking to reprogram my ES-8 so no better time to really sit down with the future impact!


EDIT: Nevermind, I discovered the "Packs"

For the benefit of anyone else reading this, there are several packs - the ones in the final pages are the old v2 patches that were shared on the TB patch sharing thread. With a few exceptions, all the v3 patches on there are mine and, whilst I have posted them individually for ease of browsing, I have also created a pack which includes all of them so they can all be downloaded at once. I originally created the pack a few months ago so it doesn’t appear at the top. However, whenever I add files to it, I change the title to reflect the update date.

In answer to the other point, yes, you can apply a search filter and show only the patches which are for bass.

Within my pack, it is possible to deselect any items you don’t want to download before clicking “download”.

The categories are just tags. So where I’ve used “bass”, “guitar” and “MIDI” together, it simply means that that patch works for any of those instruments. (Remember if you use a guitar, you need to set the global instrument option to “guitar” in the boot menu. This may seem obvious but even I forgot to do it when I was demonstrating the pedal to a guitarist!)

Relatedly, where I have multiple patches with the same name but different number suffixes, they are variations. Sometimes the difference is subtle. Sometimes it may not be immediately obvious because the core sound is exactly the same but the morphing is very different when using an expression pedal. Other times the variations are quite striking.

If using my patches, I highly recommend hooking up an expression pedal as most of the time I’ve programmed interesting stuff on CC1 (and sometimes CC3 as well).
 
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Just interested in getting some opinions here. How useful would people find the following dedicated MIDI CC feature ideas?


Adjustment of dry instrument output. (Currently there are dedicated CCs for master volume and synth volume but not for the dry signal). It can be done using a flexi slot but it’s such a common use that a dedicated control would be preferable.


Adjustment of master VCO coarse tuning (two octaves either side). (Currently it is possible to use the octave switches on a MIDI keyboard to shift octaves but the only way to do this when triggering via the audio input is to use a flexi slot assigned to the master VCO tuning. A dedicated control would be most welcome, one which allows either full MIDI control over the pitch offset, or at the very least, allows octave shifts (-2, -1, 0, +1, +2). This would be most welcome as often with keyboards, a sound which works well as a bass can also sound great as a lead when transposed up an octave or two. It would be great for bass players and guitarists to have a similar functionality.


Muting/volume of oscillators. At the very least one each for VCOs 1-4 master volume. If possible one for each waveform within an oscillator.
 
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I’ve just uploaded a few tremolo patches.

I had to fudge them a bit. If you assign a square wave to the INSTR slider in the main mixer then the output is quite clicky. I suspect this might be because it is a linear volume control. My workaround was to set that control to zero and instead put the dry signal through the VCF input but bypass the filter and then apply the square wave LFO to the VCF LOG slider.


@Andras Szalay, I wonder if there’s a case for having a log slider for the dry signal too so that LFO could be applied directly to that slider, especially if users wanted to have a tremolo on the dry signal but not on the synth.
 
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