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This is really cool, Roger! I hadn’t seen this before. I’d love to see this resurrected (if viable).
This is something that looked really promising on paper but was difficult to realize in the real world. Each pedal required lots of special work to get it up and running. The pots in these pedals sometimes had voltage ranges that were unexpected and beyond the range of the digipots. Nevertheless, we learned lots of things technically and are in a strong position to add digital control of analog pedals should we decide this is part of our future. Lets see what happens with ZIO. Perhaps we will do some stuff like that in the future. As for the Neuro Module? Way too much engineering required on our end. Supporting DYI guys adding it in would be crazy. None of you want to pay someone $250 per hour to work 8 hours on adding something like this to an old analog pedal.
Andy Martin did a demo of this and the bass sounds SO good!
I think the Zio has a few subtle uses for us Bassists. Sure, the 20db of gain is more guitar orientated. However, there's a few good reasons that this pedal could become the first pedal in one's chain. Firstly, the switch (By pass / Mute) dictates what the stomper "off" does. The amount of times I've wanted a mute switch that's easily accessible. Another cool feature is with passive basses, using a neutral sounding buffer to stage my bass' passive signal to the rest of my board in a buffer friendly way. It also provides me a way to dial in a matched impedance from a hot bass. In theory, the output dial from the Zio should allow the input volume > output volume to be impedance transparent. One of the reasons I like Digital dirt is that I can dial in a "grit sound" that isn't bass specific. With some analogue dirt, they play better with passive pickups. Active pickups tends to overwhelm analogue dirt pedals due to the vastly different impedance levels. The Zio should means that the difference between an active and passive bass is just a turn down or up from the Output dial. Where as at the moment, my active bass can't be turned down enough for some of my lighter (2 transistor) overdrives. I'm wondering if there's mileage in having a Zio attached to one's belt. It certainly works best as a 1st pedal / pedal board input buffer.
There's nothing to stop some one using the Ultrawave as a pure / bespoke Stereo midi controlled Compressor. Or a One channel compressor and One Channel Dirt pedal. The Balance control allows the blending of either channel. For some of my Patches (my muff patch comes to mind) I use the sustain control to dial in the amount of compression. There's no reason you can't remap the 4 pedal controls so that patch is a pure compressor with 4 compression controls mapped to it. Effectively becoming a 4 knob compressor for that patch. Get a Faderfox PC4 and you can map all of the 7 compression controls to Faderfox Midi CC dials.
Sounds like a good idea to me.....
I share my idea: would it be possible to add to EQ2 the compressor section of the Ultrawave ?
You can already use the UltraWave to apply (single-band) compression to two separate parts of the signal chain.
That would be cool for an "EQ3", since the display could be used to show gain reduction as well. Or even some representation of the compression graph in the editor.
You need to switch on “extended preset mode” in the global settings and then you can access these in the same way as the current four.
