Have you tried the Minotaur via CV? I agree that the envelope would potentially be nice, but I don’t believe that level of nuance is happening via the MIDI out either (I could be wrong).
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Future Impact V4
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This came in today!!! Pandamidi was kind enough to add a midi CV gate cable for a smidgen of a delay due to bad postal workers lol. Thanks again!! Just took this pic and going to go plug in now and test it out. Been waiting to own this pedal since V1 and now it's time....
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Not sure what you guys love about it. for 400$ its monophonic, tracks ok but we are up to version 4 and NO BLEND KNOB for wet and dry signals. If i could pull the synth back and bring my pickups forward i may have kept it. Also, double click to back the programs up? I dont have that kind of time on stage, needs a dedicated switch for that and please lose those 1970s vacuum cleaner switches please. There are so many soft touch switches used on other effects, i don't get it. Sorry, but its a no go for me.
Your techniques may be off for how your tracking is behaving and there is other ways to blend in a clean signal. As for price their cheaper than they were a few years ago and now days is 400 really allot for a quality pedal...Just food for thought
The Balance control on the face is a pickup/synth blend control, and Level is an overall output volume control to adjust when changing the Balance.
The Future Impact is a mono-synth comparable to a typical Moog, I doubt anyone buys a Moog and complains about its lack of polyphony.
Show me anything comparable to what the Future Impact does (full 4-voice actual synth controlled by a string instrument with full onboard and hands-free hardware access to all internal presets with no need for a separate controller pedal) for under $400. Polyphonic tracking at the speed of the monophonic tracking in the Future Impact is also non-existent for bass on the market at this point without using a hex pickup (individual outputs and processors per string- and the guy that designed the Future Impact is one of the pioneers of that technology).
If you want cheaper, with polyphony and comparable tracking, then you probably should look into the Boss SY-200 (or SY-300 for a little over $400). It's not an actual synth triggered by your playing, but instead is manipulating your input signal into something resembling synth waveforms and so doesn't have latency required for pitch-tracking purposes. It does have a sort of glitch at the attack of notes while it pulls apart your input signals into individual notes though, and lacks the depth or tweakability of an actual synth like the Future Impact. Otherwise I think your expectations are beyond the current technology...
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You are right, i missed the blend selection. Still hated the double click to back up. I think after using a VBass with a GK3-B pickup for decades i just expect too much from a stomp box. Money is not an issue, just always looking for a polyphonic unit that tracks well. I found that a fretless causes tracking probs with the Future. Probably the rattling and harmonics they put off. Problem is, i prefer fretless for a synth controller, not frets. My search will continue.
Yep your V-bass is able to do clean polyphony without artifacts because of having separate pickups coupled with separate processors per string. The V-bass also doesn’t utilize pitch-tracking to trigger an actual synth as in the Future Impact, and is instead manipulating your input signal as described in my previous comment regarding the Boss SY series pedals- this limits the depth of their sound capabilities and tweakability but eliminates most tracking issues since it doesn’t rely on pitch-tracking. If you want polyphonic sounds along the lines of your V-bass bit using normal bass pickups then the Boss SY series is your best bet- the trade off being that there is some artifacts at the beginning of notes as the pedal picks your chords apart into separate notes.
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