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#662
I've been beta testing as well, my clips aren't nearly as cool or well done as Gastric's, but here are a couple of things I did for demonstration purposes.

First clip is using the step filter with the clean/wet at 50%. Added some distortion from the Multiwave in there at some point as well. This sounds muddy due to the recording setup I was using. The clean blend can allow you to do some really neat things. I also have my expression pedal set to control tempo on this one. At the end you can hear me slow down the stepping.

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This clip, I recorded to demonstrate something for Jesse. Starts off clean, then adds and Agular Octamizer with no clean, then adds the W&C PPB Fuzz, then setting 9 on the BEF Pro, then maybe added a Octave distortion from Multiwave. I am using an expression pedal to sweep the range control on the BEF.

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I'm also using the LFO with the phaser settings to have an actual phaser accessible. Using this on the intro of one of our new songs. I'll try to get a clip sometime soon. This pedal is the coolest thing I've gotten to mess with in a long time and is becoming very important to my setup.

I'll try to get some better quality clips up here soon.
 
#663
rsmith601 said:
Small EQ - Jesse is making the final edits to the feature set and code. One of the new features is very interesting and unique. We will tell more if it can be made to work reliably. The BEF pro has taken up lots of our attention and pushed this back in the schedule a bit. Mid August is my best estimate right now. Sorry about the delay, but I did note a while back that this product was less predictable than the BEF Pro.
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This statement really confused me at first for obvious reasons.
 
#664
gastric said:
Oh the suspense for the green light has been KILLING ME! :)

CLICK HERE to wet your pants with this sound clip!

I recorded this clip on June 14th using a really basic and slow 4 or 5 note melody, some really basic GT-10B octave>fuzz (you can hear the non-filtered tone at the end), then into the BEF Pro using a customized 16 step sequencer LFO with the expression sweeping Range (depth) which you can hear towards the end of the clip, and I hear some chorus and delay/verb after the filter. The sequencer is doing all of the fun work in this clip.

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The BEF Pro is syncing to MIDI Clock from my DAW for beat-synced LFO. While my playing is a little off in spots you'll note the filter holds to the clock the entire clip.
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This is AMAZING!!!!

Although did you record this last June? or did you mean May 14th?

I'm not trying to nit pick you I was just wondering if SA has been beta testing for that long. ;)
 
#670
Here's a clip with a fretless/double-bass like simulation.

With the newly added control over resonance (Q) you can seriously tame the filter voices to the point where they no longer sound at all like they do in the non-Pro version. In this example I use Filter #0 to create a reasonable fretless or double-bass mwahhhh type sound. Played with the fingers close to the neck, tone rolled off heavily, and the BEF PRO with the following settings: Range=9:30, Freq=10:00, Speed=Max, Mix=Max, Q=Min, Mod=Envelope, EQ cutting 500/5K heavily and 2k/4k slightly. At the end of the clip I turn the resonance to default which should emulate a similar sound to the non-Pro version, then I bypass the BEF Pro entirely so you can hear the clean tone for comparison. Note the GT-10B has no effects other than some mild hall reverb applied - but no amp sim, EQ, noise gate, etc. the tone is all the bass and the BEF Pro. I would think further tone shaping may potentially make the sound more convincing.
 
#671
gastric said:
Here's a clip with a fretless/double-bass like simulation.

With the newly added control over resonance (Q) you can seriously tame the filter voices to the point where they no longer sound at all like they do in the non-Pro version. In this example I use Filter #1 to create a reasonable fretless or double-bass mwahhhh type sound. Played with the fingers close to the neck, tone rolled off heavily, and the BEF PRO with the following settings: Range=9:30, Freq=10:00, Speed=Max, Mix=Max, Q=Min, Mod=Envelope, EQ cutting 500/5K heavily and 2k/4k slightly. At the end of the clip I turn the resonance to default which should emulate a similar sound to the non-Pro version, then I bypass the BEF Pro entirely so you can hear the clean tone for comparison. Note the GT-10B has no effects other than some mild hall reverb applied - but no amp sim, EQ, noise gate, etc. the tone is all the bass and the BEF Pro. I would think further tone shaping may potentially make the sound more convincing.
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I hear some dubstep in there. Wobble junkies take notice.
 
#673
gastric said:
I'll get to the beat synced wobble demos soon. :) The LFO and tempo sync options have everything you need.
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Is that available within the BEF Pro itself? Or are you needing to midi interface to get the beat (clock?) sync.

I'm on the hunt for some sort of metronome or clock interface for this. DIY would be cool,...but I don't have a DAW or any other MIDI interfaces (have access to though, friend has Ableton Live).
 
#674
BEF Pro has native tap tempo and MIDI Clock sync. I cannot say for certain how each of them will function in the final production firmware but can share this quick clip.

CLICK HERE FOR BEF PRO TRIANGLE LFO WOBBLE CLIP

Note that as with most resonant filters there's a LOT of potential for monstrous, speaker killing sub-bass, or ear splitting peaking resonance. In this clip I ran a GT-10B limiter after the filter so I could be somewhat safe just running through all of the filter voices, some of which are more resonant than others. But there's no really good hard brickwall limiter in the GT-10B (that I'm aware of) so there will be clipping and rumbling for certain. In the real world you'd really need to setup each patch for individually for resonance/volume/frequency/etc to ensure there's no unwanted spikes.

I start with the basic signal, then go into the BEF PRO LFO fun. Signal is BOSS OC-2, GT-10B compressor, BOSS VF-1 bit crusher and BEF Pro in the FX LOOP, BOSS limiter to the recording. I whipped through this so I'm unsure on the exact settings, but it's a triangle LFO with the resonance turned down about 1/2 way. I believe I started on Filter #3 and then cycled through ALL of the filter voices and ended on Filter #2.

With all of that said the clip should be good enough to give you some ideas as to the possibilities with the wobble the filter can provide.

I do think the 16 step sequencer clip is the money maker though. :)
 
#675
gastric said:
BEF Pro has native tap tempo and MIDI Clock sync. I cannot say for certain how each of them will function in the final production firmware but can share this quick clip.

CLICK HERE FOR BEF PRO TRIANGLE LFO WOBBLE CLIP

Note that as with most resonant filters there's a LOT of potential for monstrous, speaker killing sub-bass, or ear splitting peaking resonance. In this clip I ran a GT-10B limiter after the filter so I could be somewhat safe just running through all of the filter voices, some of which are more resonant than others. But there's no really good hard brickwall limiter in the GT-10B (that I'm aware of) so there will be clipping and rumbling for certain. In the real world you'd really need to setup each patch for individually for resonance/volume/frequency/etc to ensure there's no unwanted spikes.

I start with the basic signal, then go into the BEF PRO LFO fun. Signal is BOSS OC-2, GT-10B compressor, BOSS VF-1 bit crusher and BEF Pro in the FX LOOP, BOSS limiter to the recording. I whipped through this so I'm unsure on the exact settings, but it's a triangle LFO with the resonance turned down about 1/2 way. I believe I started on Filter #3 and then cycled through ALL of the filter voices and ended on Filter #2.

With all of that said the clip should be good enough to give you some ideas as to the possibilities with the wobble the filter can provide.

I do think the 16 step sequencer clip is the money maker though. :)
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That clip sounds good but I'll look forward to the 16 step clip.
 
#678
Another sound clip for you demonstrating all of the available LFO waveforms.

Bass into BOSS OC-2, GT-10B bass fuzz, then a low gain Ampeg SVT sim, then into the BEF Pro and into the DAW to illustrate the typical octave + fuzz + filter sound to achieve bass synth tones. I think you'll agree that the LFO gives a lot of SERIOUS electronica possibilities.

BEF Pro is set to Filter #3, 100% wet, a fairly low frequency, and resonance / Q reduced 50% or so. I then start with a Range about 9:00, start the first waveform, slowly raise range to nearly max, then return range to 9:00 for the next waveform. When I get to S&H and the 16 step sequencer I reduce the tempo rate as they are very complex waveforms and sound more articulate and definted when the waveform period has a longer time to bop through it's steps. I also play with frequency and range further for the sequencer waveform. Also note that I believe the 16 step sequencer used is a different sequence than heard in the first clip above. You have the ability to load any sequence you want from 1 to 16 steps and anything in between. I end with the BEF Pro bypassed.
 

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