Source Audio Sorcerers Society (S.A.S.S) Part 3

[rsmith601]

You should be able to save THREE presets directly to one pedal and recall them with the mini toggle. This is how all of the One Series pedals work.

Or up to 6 presets when using RED/GREEN modes. Or, 128 presets when used with the Hub.
Its nice to have an awesome new bass product again. I have been missing you guys!!

 

[smeet]

You should be able to save THREE presets directly to one pedal and recall them with the mini toggle. This is how all of the One Series pedals work.

My question was actually about whether one preset could use the filter “engine” and another could use the synth “engine”. As opposed to having to put/reboot the entire pedal in a different mode or something.

 

[rsmith601]

There are 4 synth voices, 2 envelope detectors, 2 filter blocks, and many other things. They can be used at the same time and in any kind of combination!

 

[rsmith601]

My question was actually about whether one preset could use the filter “engine” and another could use the synth “engine”. As opposed to having to put/reboot the entire pedal in a different mode or something.

Block diagram is on this page:
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[shaggy45]

Are we there yet

 

[radiophonic]

I was very excited by the sounds Nathan was getting out of this pedal on the NAMM clip. Sonically, I'm sure Source Audio have this in the bag. The deal maker for me will be latency - something that has kept me away from digital octave based effects until now. I'm interested to see how this plays out since at some point every pedal faces the same problem in that it has to work out what note you are playing and then generate a bunch of stuff based on that calculation, so some latency must be unavoidable and getting to the point where it doesn't feel latent must be quite the challenge. I've they've cracked it, it'll be a game changer for me. The video looked promising though, so fingers crossed. 'Sound 3' with the string bend... I'd feel obliged to find a use for that one.

 

[rsmith601]

I was very excited by the sounds Nathan was getting out of this pedal on the NAMM clip. Sonically, I'm sure Source Audio have this in the bag. The deal maker for me will be latency - something that has kept me away from digital octave based effects until now. I'm interested to see how this plays out since at some point every pedal faces the same problem in that it has to work out what note you are playing and then generate a bunch of stuff based on that calculation, so some latency must be unavoidable and getting to the point where it doesn't feel latent must be quite the challenge. I've they've cracked it, it'll be a game changer for me. The video looked promising though, so fingers crossed. 'Sound 3' with the string bend... I'd feel obliged to find a use for that one.

We do time domain pitch tracking in monophonic mode, and it's really fast.

 

[smeet]

Just wondering... Does it have an OC-2 model?

 

[rsmith601]

Just wondering... Does it have an OC-2 model?

Yes. On the C4 pedal at NAMM we had down one octave mixed with down 2 octaves and the dry. Sounds great. Will probably ship as one of the top level sounds on the synth pedal

 

[CameronJohnson]

Yes. On the C4 pedal at NAMM we had down one octave mixed with down 2 octaves and the dry. Sounds great. Will probably ship as one of the top level sounds on the synth pedal

As in, THE oc2 sound?? Can we get a demo of that? I know a few folk who would be VERY interested in it...

 

[rsmith601]

As in, THE oc2 sound?? Can we get a demo of that? I know a few folk who would be VERY interested in it...

Yes, OC2. We will post some sounds when things get closer to release.

 

[GMC]

Thanks for visiting the booth, Adam! Your video captures the 3 sounds Nathan put on hit pedal perfectly. Also the tracking. Thanks for posting!

Sounding epic...and in a handy one series sized enclosure....get it on the market and take my money....

 

[CameronJohnson]

Thanks Roger - Looking forward to hearing it!

 

[GisserD]

Is the soundbox format officialy dead now?
I really prefer it to the one series as more parameters are accessible from the front.

 

[rsmith601]

Is the soundbox format officialy dead now?
I really prefer it to the one series as more parameters are accessible from the front.

We thought it was practical and effective (we are engineers, what do we know?). But, way too many people said it was ugly and complicated. SB2 is on the way to being dead.

 

[shaggy45]

Have you guys thought about going Bluetooth with out the adapter? Like the h9. That would be sweet. I know you would have to do it on a new series, because of continuity and all. Something to think about for the future. Or hey make a blue tooth hub version. Connect to the hub via Bluetooth and you could configure the pedals that are connected and then you wouldn’t have to buy all new pedals for the feature. Just a new hub.

 

[CameronJohnson]

We thought it was practical and effective (we are engineers, what do we know?). But, way too many people said it was ugly and complicated. SB2 is on the way to being dead.

This makes me sad. The Soundblox 2 series was, to me, some of the best pedal design I’ve come across. So well thought-out.

 

[radiophonic]

We do time domain pitch tracking in monophonic mode, and it's really fast.

So does that avoid all the FFT windowing and the latency that comes with it? I'd just assumed that was how it was done digitally.

 

[Blu bro]

Its funny, I was sure I would never buy another synth pedal again.

I have the Octavius squeezer, Markbass Supersynth (sold this), Korg G5, Future impact and of corse the SA Manta.

I have not even been tempted to buy the Meris, Bananana pedal, Mothership v2 or anything else. But I will be purchasing the new SA synth pedal. I am sold.

Well Done SA on giving the bass community what it has asked for and so much more.

 

[Nunovsky]

I'm repeating myself since have said this before in this thread, but I would be pleased with just a one series version of your envelope filter.
I love my BEF Pro but not the size of it. I had other envelope filters but I just keep coming back to it. I even thought of changing to a Manta but the BEF Pro has that extra tweakability that set it as a diferent unit. The 6 presets available on step, the back features, the eq section that even got released as an individual pedal is really what sets this pedal on its own. It stacks well with other pedals, tolerates my active basses and it's quite intuitive to set. Could have some extra settings like a separate attack and decay options or ressonance (which can be compensated with Q at the back panel), but I can get a lot of sounds from it, from the more classic envelope sounds to more synthy ones.
But I always struggled with the size factor of it and that's why I spent a lot of money with other pedals.
When the news of the development of an EF in the One Series format got out, I was thrilled with it because I had experience with these pedals and with the Neuro app (I have a Lunar Phaser and previously had an Aftershock) and I know how powerfull that tool is in giving major tweakability to the settings. So I knew that this could only be the answer to my long quest for the perfect envelope filter (does it even exist?...).
But then you released this and so much more in one pedal... This new filter/synth will eventually kick about 4 pedals off my current board (Future Impact, T16, SA SB2 Multi Wave Bass Distortion and SA BEF Pro) and now it justifies to get an hub just to be able to change presets on the fly.
This will be a game changer for me if it will live up to my expectations.