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

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sunbeast said:
He simply reused the general design of the original Akai unit, which IMO is more interesting than yet another rectangular Hammond enclosure and probably kept costs down. The art is a bit amateur sure, but again that isn’t really his focus, costs decent money to pay someone else to hone in well, and people are always gonna love or hate the aesthetic of anything like this anyway. Its a pretty cheap pedal for what you get as far as function IMO, so I temper my expectations about secondary traits like looks. It’s not offensive, the art/labeling is functionally sound, and looks nicer than sharpie on a bare enclosure. If people wanna bling theirs up then go ahead- it’s not that hard or expensive to do so.
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+1 to this. I'm on board with the look of the pedal, it's part of the Impact's charm for me. It's a unique conversation starter, and even more so when people hear it. :cool:

5sg.
 
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fivestringgecko said:
Touché, sir!

Apologies! I didn't mean for my post to sound like a flex, but I guess it does now that I read it back. I guess I just got excited about being in on the preorder. :D

5sg.
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Don’t worry, I didn’t read it that way at all.

Truth be told, I’m not actually the original owner of my unit. Believe it or not, I was a latecomer to the FI. I became aware of it from one of the guys who worked in my local music shop. They were obviously a bit difficult to find.

I managed to find one to rent for a week or two (at the same time as a Glou Glou Rendezvous) in late 2017 and didn’t really gel with it, moreso as I was having too much fun with the other pedal.

I can’t recall exactly when but I think it was around this time or not long after that I started pestering Andras to add ADSR.

I finally decided to give one a try again in late 2018 by picking up a used one (for £300 as they were really expensive then). I then spent my Christmas break playing around with it and learning what everything did. Where the manual made no sense, I puzzled stuff out on my own.

After that, I started writing a thread on Basschat to explain all the features more clearly and the tricks I’d learned.

I guess you know what happened after that.
 
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fivestringgecko said:
Here's a question:
@Andras Szalay - Will you be signing the preorder units like you did with the FI v1? Because that'd be cool. Just sayin.' :cool:
(My main FI is a second run v1, but you still signed those.)

5sg.
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Honestly, I did not think about it, but as you are requesting here, surely I can do it.
It was just funny as a large dealer in Germany reported that a customer wanted to send back his unit. He protested because he bought a brand new unit, and there was a name written on the bottom of the pedal, so he was convinced that they sold him a second hand unit :)

Andras Szalay
 
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Andras Szalay said:
Honestly, I did not think about it, but as you are requesting here, surely I can do it.
It was just funny as a large dealer in Germany reported that a customer wanted to send back his unit. He protested because he bought a brand new unit, and there was a name written on the bottom of the pedal, so he was convinced that they sold him a second hand unit :)

Andras Szalay
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I have purchased a V4 and MIDI-CV/gate break out cable and requested it be autographed, yes I am a nerd that way.

I have been spending quality time with my V3 and am still amazed at just how much craziness is available for creating sounds and adding them to my own sounz.
 
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Looking for clarification about the new midi out of V4. (As I just placed my preorder). I couldn’t find any explanation or picture of the cv/gate cable, but it sounds like it takes 5 pin midi and gives separate cv and gate outs on 1/4”(??) jacks? I wonder, will you be able to trigger/play another midi capable device with simply using a 5 pin midi connection? For example, I think it would be very gratifying to play my bass into an FI V4, take the midi out to play my FI V3, and mix the audio out of both FI’s. Imagine two identical presets, except one has the oscillators tuned a few cents off, or two completely different presets. Could be huge and wonderful.
Am I misunderstanding something or is this possible with the V4?
 
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jbybj said:
Looking for clarification about the new midi out of V4. (As I just placed my preorder). I couldn’t find any explanation or picture of the cv/gate cable, but it sounds like it takes 5 pin midi and gives separate cv and gate outs on 1/4”(??) jacks? I wonder, will you be able to trigger/play another midi capable device with simply using a 5 pin midi connection? For example, I think it would be very gratifying to play my bass into an FI V4, take the midi out to play my FI V3, and mix the audio out of both FI’s. Imagine two identical presets, except one has the oscillators tuned a few cents off, or two completely different presets. Could be huge and wonderful.
Am I misunderstanding something or is this possible with the V4?
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You don’t need MIDI to do that - just send the same audio input signal to both FI units (using something like a Boss LS-2 or AB-Y unit, or a Morningstar ML10X, or a Y (splitter) cable).

CV out is on two 3.5mm cables via the adapter cable out of the usually unused pins in MIDI OUT port.

Audio input does not generate MIDI note output. (It may be added later but there are more pressing things to be addressed first.)
 
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Quatschmacher said:
You don’t need MIDI to do that - just send the same audio input signal to both FI units (using something like a Boss LS-2 or AB-Y unit, or a Morningstar ML10X, or a Y (splitter) cable).

CV out is on two 3.5mm cables via the adapter cable out of the usually unused pins in MIDI OUT port.

Audio input does not generate MIDI note output. (It may be added later but there are more pressing things to be addressed first.)
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Yes then, I definitely misunderstood. No midi note info foils my plan. I know sending audio to both would achieve the same result, but if the V4 does actually track better, my proposed setup would let the V3 benefit from the tracking of the V4. I will be patient, and spend some time finally learning how to program sounds.
 
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jbybj said:
Looking for clarification about the new midi out of V4. (As I just placed my preorder). I couldn’t find any explanation or picture of the cv/gate cable, but it sounds like it takes 5 pin midi and gives separate cv and gate outs on 1/4”(??) jacks? I wonder, will you be able to trigger/play another midi capable device with simply using a 5 pin midi connection? For example, I think it would be very gratifying to play my bass into an FI V4, take the midi out to play my FI V3, and mix the audio out of both FI’s. Imagine two identical presets, except one has the oscillators tuned a few cents off, or two completely different presets. Could be huge and wonderful.
Am I misunderstanding something or is this possible with the V4?
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I do agree that a full fledged MIDI out would be great but the DV/Gate option offers a great potential.
This is what what a CV/GATE output is and can do in the realm of electronic music, there are many synthesizers and other devices that can use this information. For myself having several vintage analog synths this opens a lot of possibilities as well as being able to use the CV/Gate output to drive my modular creations in VCV Rack2. MIDI does offer many additional possibilities but there is much charm in the CV/Gate world of experiences.

FWIW I often use either a delay or a TC 3rd dimension to synth tracks for fullness.
 
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bassbrad said:
I do agree that a full fledged MIDI out would be great but the DV/Gate option offers a great potential.
This is what what a CV/GATE output is and can do in the realm of electronic music, there are many synthesizers and other devices that can use this information. For myself having several vintage analog synths this opens a lot of possibilities as well as being able to use the CV/Gate output to drive my modular creations in VCV Rack2. MIDI does offer many additional possibilities but there is much charm in the CV/Gate world of experiences.

FWIW I often use either a delay or a TC 3rd dimension to synth tracks for fullness.
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Maybe it’s time to stop ignoring the cv inputs on my PLL.
 
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Quatschmacher said:
Here’s a couple of clips. The first clip shows the new oscillator sync feature (please excuse the noise - I was daisychaining the Beat Buddy and so had a lot of ground hum). The second clip is properly isolated. The audio is still coming out of the Beat Buddy so not representative of the proper sound quality when recording direct.



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Those audio clips are making me sick of GAS. Please, stop or I will buy a Future Impact V4.
 
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Diegombass said:
Those audio clips are making me sick of GAS. Please, stop or I will buy a Future Impact V4.
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I’ll post more clips in a few days hopefully. (Just recovering from surgery this morning and in a lot of pain.)

I’ve done the manual now, barring any late extra additions/changes).
 

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