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News on Chunk Systems Bass Synth

#865
So how is everybody getting on with the menus? Is it a pain in the arse to tweak a sound just how you like it / is it unnecessarily time-consuming / are you content to deal with it for the bonus of a small form factor / should it have had more controls or a bigger screen?
 
#866
I still say an assignable to any param expression pedal input would have been great. Or maybe better... midi so you could hook up one of those midi knob boxes and tweak everything on the fly. Menus are a pain no doubt. But the sound is really good and I think overall it is a winner.
 
#867
I haven't gotten mine yet, but there are a few things I wish they would have built into the pedal.

#1 Designated tap tempo for beat-locked effects. this strikes me as absolutely necessary for live use. Even an tempo out jack would have sufficed. I don't want to be scrolling through a menu to get an effect then hold the switch to get into tap tempo mode and again to exit it. Too complicated.

#2 Designated input and output level knobs. Seems to me that these are going to be fairly constant regardless of the effect.

I'd have welcomed other things such as additional outputs for expression pedal use and perhaps to change banks with one footswitch and presets within the bank via another switch. The pedal is a monster but it's gotta be functional in a live setting.
 
#868
soulplane83 said:
#1 Designated tap tempo for beat-locked effects...

#2 Designated input and output level knobs. Seems to me that these are going to be fairly constant regardless of the effect
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Put the footswitches in "TAP" mode and the left footswitch becomes exactly what you're after.

The output level of each effect can be easily set if you adjust the "parameter" menu properly - suggest you check out section 4.7 of the user manual. It can effectively be set to make the "parameter" knob a "dedicated" output level knob.
 
#869
niftydog said:
Put the footswitches in "TAP" mode and the left footswitch becomes exactly what you're after.

The output level of each effect can be easily set if you adjust the "parameter" menu properly - suggest you check out section 4.7 of the user manual. It can effectively be set to make the "parameter" knob a "dedicated" output level knob.
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I know. I'm just saying these things would be more functional to me if they were seperate from the rest of the unit and I didn't need to go into a menu to use them.
 
#870
soulplane83 said:
I know. I'm just saying these things would be more functional to me if they were seperate from the rest of the unit and I didn't need to go into a menu to use them.
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It seems to me this unit simply isn't for you. Of course it would be cool to have total on-the-fly control, but that would make the pedal even pricier, and it would involve design compromises of its own...
 
#871
I find the menu layout is actually very easy to navigate once you give yourself an hour or two to get used it it. I'm unfortunately also finding that a synth may not be a pedal I need :D
 
#874
soulplane83 said:
I know. I'm just saying these things would be more functional to me if they were seperate from the rest of the unit and I didn't need to go into a menu to use them.
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Once they are set to your preference you don't need to enter any menus - but I appreciate your point. Personally I prefer being able to set it up to do what you want, rather than being tied into a predetermined, fixed layout.
 
#876
bkbirge said:
I still say an assignable to any param expression pedal input would have been great. Or maybe better... midi so you could hook up one of those midi knob boxes and tweak everything on the fly. Menus are a pain no doubt. But the sound is really good and I think overall it is a winner.
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I missed this before, MIDI is probably the one thing missing that you'd somehow expect to be there. Maybe next time!
 
#877
niftydog said:
Once they are set to your preference you don't need to enter any menus - but I appreciate your point. Personally I prefer being able to set it up to do what you want, rather than being tied into a predetermined, fixed layout.
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Yea, I hear that. My whole thing is this...I play in a funk/groove jam band that does alot of improv, so this pedal is gonna get a ton of use from me at home, in the studio and most importantly, live. It's gonna allow me to create killer sounds that can't be found elsewhere. But the whole thing about playing the music I play is that the times when you want to kick in a synth are moments that pop up unexpectedly. Therefore, I want a minimum of menu scrolling when I'm playing...I figure a few more exp outs and switches might make that happen.
 
#878
soulplane83 said:
It's gonna allow me to create killer sounds that can't be found elsewhere. But the whole thing about playing the music I play is that the times when you want to kick in a synth are moments that pop up unexpectedly. Therefore, I want a minimum of menu scrolling when I'm playing...I figure a few more exp outs and switches might make that happen.
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It doesn't really do anything you can't do with a combination of other pedals. I feel you about wanting to kick a synth in spontaneously, but ya know, it's not all that easy to switch between settings on the fly with a BMS/Q-tron setup (maybe the closets well-know pedal combo that is roughly equivalent) either - you'll have several sliders to move, then the Q-tron peak and gain to adjust.

The advantage of the OS is you can SAVE your preset combinations, and it shouldn't be too much trouble to have them stored in the banks so you can just choose a bank at the start of the set and move between patches (that's what us synth freaks call a saved setting if that confuses anybody) fairly easily - surely more easily than twiddling knobs and sliders.

I don't think the OS is gonna be for everybody, but I'm used to programming synths, so I'm looking forward to getting mine. SOON!
 
#880
It seems that a lot of people are having trouble with their units, my question is; What are you using to power it?? Remember the Chunk uses about 240-250mA at any given time so you want a GOOD power supply unit that can comfortably dish that out.

For a pedal like this, I'd be steering clear of the daisy chains. Something with isolated outputs like the PP2+ would be fine, providing you're using one of the high draw sockets. Really the best bet is to get a single regulated 9V power supply to use for the Chunk only (you can easily find these over 300mA).

I haven't had any freezing, startup errors, or any problems whatsoever from the moment I got mine. I'm using a shredfreak PSU (1500mA), just for the Chunk.
 

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