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

[Quatschmacher]

I’ve just updated my Flashlight patch. This will be useful for anyone who doesn’t have an expression pedal (or who does but wants the LFO depth to be at zero when the patch loads). Use the one with the suffix “no auto LFO”.

Flashlight – Future Impact Program Database

 

[Andras Szalay]

Dear friends,

It was one and a half years ago that the most important update of the Future Impact, Version 3.00 was released. During this time we discussed and evaluated a lot of new ideas. Now, it is time to announce the second most important update, Version 3.50.

We have a huge work behind us. Over the last few months an extremely talented international team helped me, and the FI v3.50 is the result of our joint effort.

Let us all recognize and applaud the members of the team:

- Peter Kenney (UK): Product design, writing the User Guide , editor testing, sound design.

- Gabor Lippenyi (Hungary): Product design, sound design, studio recordings, creating the video demo.

- Zsolt Rammer (Hungary): PC and MAC Editor coding, graphics, sound design.

- Gabor Gerenyi (Hungary): Product design, marketing.

You can find all product details at MIDI products by pandaMidi. Let me cite here just a few of the most important features:

- instead of the available delay time of 140 msec in models up to now, the 3.50 software allows a generous 600 msec. This gives new dimensions to your music.

- delay time can be adjusted with tap tempo.

- delay time can be synchronized to MIDI clock.

- LFO4 can be synchronized to MIDI clock.

- using a sustain pedal allows you to keep the synth sound sustained, while you can play along with the bass/guitar.

- programs are compatible with the 3.0x programs (*.pr3). You can load your old *.pr3 programs into the editor, add long delay and MIDI sync features to it, and then save them in the same format.

- 10 new programs in the default set replace programs 60 to 69 with sounds that let you exploit the new features.

Watch the video demo showing the 10 amazing new sounds. Also you will find on our web page the FI 3.50 software upgrade with the bank of the new sounds and all documentation, naturally ALL FREE OF CHARGE!

Finally, I would like to thank everyone on this forum for your help, comments, critiques, suggestions and requests. These all contributed to giving you a better product. Enjoy!

Andras Szalay

 

[Charlie Tuna]

Thank you @Andras Szalay ! What an unexpected surprise! Can’t wait to test it tonight.

 

[Andras Szalay]

Here is a link directly to the video demo.


Andras Szalay

 

[sunbeast]

All of these updates are exciting! Can’t wait to mess around with clock-synced LFO flexis, and that sustain is also a great addition!

 

[Adamixoye]

Can someone tell me if the "MIDI Out" on the FI passes voltage / power according to the MIDI spec, such that a low-power device that is intended to take device over MIDI can be powered by the FI? Like one of these:

WIDI Master - Wireless MIDI Adapter via Bluetooth by CME

 

[Quatschmacher]

@maisbass you need to check in.

 

[Quatschmacher]

Dear friends,

It was one and a half years ago that the most important update of the Future Impact, Version 3.00 was released. During this time we discussed and evaluated a lot of new ideas. Now, it is time to announce the second most important update, Version 3.50.

We have a huge work behind us. Over the last few months an extremely talented international team helped me, and the FI v3.50 is the result of our joint effort.

Let us all recognize and applaud the members of the team:

- Peter Kenney (UK): Product design, writing the User Guide , editor testing, sound design.

- Gabor Lippenyi (Hungary): Product design, sound design, studio recordings, creating the video demo.

- Zsolt Rammer (Hungary): PC and MAC Editor coding, graphics, sound design.

- Gabor Gerenyi (Hungary): Product design, marketing.

You can find all product details at MIDI products by pandaMidi. Let me cite here just a few of the most important features:

- instead of the available delay time of 140 msec in models up to now, the 3.50 software allows a generous 600 msec. This gives new dimensions to your music.

- delay time can be adjusted with tap tempo.

- delay time can be synchronized to MIDI clock.

- LFO4 can be synchronized to MIDI clock.

- using a sustain pedal allows you to keep the synth sound sustained, while you can play along with the bass/guitar.

- programs are compatible with the 3.0x programs (*.pr3). You can load your old *.pr3 programs into the editor, add long delay and MIDI sync features to it, and then save them in the same format.

- 10 new programs in the default set replace programs 60 to 69 with sounds that let you exploit the new features.

Watch the video demo showing the 10 amazing new sounds. Also you will find on our web page the FI 3.50 software upgrade with the bank of the new sounds and all documentation, naturally ALL FREE OF CHARGE!

Finally, I would like to thank everyone on this forum for your help, comments, critiques, suggestions and requests. These all contributed to giving you a better product. Enjoy!

Andras Szalay

I’d also like to point out that the manual has had some improvements made. I clarified some points based on user comments over the last year or so and have updated the FAQs to reflect questions that have been asked a lot. There are also some sections where the original descriptions didn’t fully explain some of the behaviours of certain parameters (notably the pink noise feature) so these now make much more sense.

I’ve also added frequency lookup tables for the filter cutoff and the pulse width/VCO3&4 LFOs; the other LFOs now have their sliders showing Hz values.

I urge all of you to read it as it of course contains full descriptions on how to use and get the best out of the new features.

I’d like to thank @Charlie Tuna for his invaluable help and feedback on the improvements.

 

[jbybj]

I’d like to thank Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Humankind.

This is simply awesome. From the start, the Future Impact has been great fun.

I love how Andras placed thanking the people involved before the feature upgrades.

 

[sunbeast]

Gotta love it when a unique product like this is also clearly a project of passion for the designer(s)- so you get constant upgrades just because there will always be the innate desire to push the envelope (pun intended!)

 

[Quatschmacher]

Here's some variations of a new patch that uses long delay:
Endless Cycle – Future Impact Program Database

 

[Quatschmacher]

Been having quite a bit of fun writing some new patches.

Flexis are fun:



Good old fat bass:


Been experimenting with some lead sounds which I haven’t done much of as yet:

This post was actually a v3.5 teaser (though I kept that part secret). I've uploaded these to the sharing platform.

 

[cosmicevan]

PHENOMENAL!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

can't wait to dive in!

 

[drewphishesp]

Damn thanks guys now I want a dedicated delay and my board is full

 

[Quatschmacher]

Damn thanks guys now I want a dedicated delay and my board is full

You can use the FI as a delay for other stuff!

 

[drewphishesp]

I know but what if I want to delay the FI sound! Can I just ad that in to the preset? And still use the tap tempo

 

[sunbeast]

I know but what if I want to delay the FI sound! Can I just ad that in to the preset? And still use the tap tempo

Yes that’s the point of the delay in the FI!

 

[Quatschmacher]

I know but what if I want to delay the FI sound! Can I just ad that in to the preset? And still use the tap tempo

I don't quite follow exactly what you're asking. Could you please reformulate your question and I'll do my best to answer.

 

[drewphishesp]

I use the preset 21 a lot... I'd love to have an option to have delay on preset 21 when I like it. So I would add the delay to the preset and set it as another number maybe 20 so I have one w delay and one without. But wanting to be able to use tap tempo with it as wel

 

[Quatschmacher]

I use the preset 21 a lot... I'd love to have an option to have delay on preset 21 when I like it. So I would add the delay to the preset and set it as another number maybe 20 so I have one w delay and one without. But wanting to be able to use tap tempo with it as wel

Just set it up in the preset as you want it and resave. You could then either use the PARAMETER and EDIT dial to switch it on and off as desired (0 for off, 5 for the depth saved in the preset). If you use a MIDI controller/expression then you can easily set a button to switch the delay on and off or use an expression assigned to a flexi controller in the preset to bring the delay in and out. (Tap tempo will only work if the delay is switched on.)