That will be good to have the Atlas and free up the UW potential.... Enjoy
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Source Audio UltraWave ~ Catch the Wave
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That will be good to have the Atlas and free up the UW potential.... Enjoy
New use for my Bass Ultrawave as a preamp processor for my Ibanez UB804 electric upright. I am working on a project in the EST / Bad Plus vein and needed a tool to get my bass to mesh with the piano players altered sounds - Bass UltraWave to the rescue with the parametric EQ, ability to mix different distortion textures, 8 band EQ hi and lo pass filters, LFO and multiband trem offers gobs of goodies for creating alterations. Sounds really interesting whether playing pizzacato or arco.
Is it possible to route the ultrawave as stereo in-mono out with the second output as a parallel out (preferably routing only the 1st input to the parallel out). I've been deep diving into the editor for a couple of days and thinking if I could use the second in/out as an effect loop for high passed delays.
I do not believe it is possible to do anything that complex with the routing and mix sections on the Ultrawave. AFIK you would need a much more complex device commonly referred to as a Matrix Mixer to do something that detailed with routing and signal processing or several pieces of gear and a patch bay, which is essentially what a Matrix Mixer is.
Gibs210
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Not really, I don’t think we had room to include the effects loop routing in the ultrawave (ran out of code). You can do parallel processing in mono of the 2 drive channels, or cascade one into the next, but this typically disables in/out 2 (at least for parallel, not sure about cascade, that could still be stereo).
Can somebody please explain Gips210's post. Does this mean the two channels could be used seperately?
As in: plug in my bass in input1 -> ultrawave 1st channel as a compressor -> output1 -> to a different pedal (Fuzz) -> input2 -> ultrawave second channel with whatever -> output2 -> to the rest of the pedals and amp...
Hope this makes sense?!
Do I put the pedal in 'stereo in/stereo out' or a different setting?
Thanks in advance!
As in: plug in my bass in input1 -> ultrawave 1st channel as a compressor -> output1 -> to a different pedal (Fuzz) -> input2 -> ultrawave second channel with whatever -> output2 -> to the rest of the pedals and amp...
Hope this makes sense?!
Do I put the pedal in 'stereo in/stereo out' or a different setting?
Thanks in advance!
You are correct 'stereo in/stereo out' then you would use the tabs at the top row to switch between Channel 1 or 2.
There are a lot of interesting sounds in the Neuro Cloud as well worth exploring especially some of @GMC uses of MORPH
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50 years from now future guitar players will still be exploring and enjoying the depths of the Ultrawave.
The ultrawave is phenomenal. I've had it for 2 months and still got a lot to learn! However I'm loving how I'm using it. I have 2 compressors on my bass clean tone at all times now and use the duel expression to kick into distortion. So can choose between 6 distortion sounds quickly. Hooked up with my eq2 boosting certain frequencies when I hit the distortion it is immense! The capabilities of the SA pedals are mind blowing.. Viva la Source Audio!
Cool. Agree, SA provide 'vast open canvases' for one's own creativity. Explore & discover. Nothing beats it.
I originally got the ultrawave to use it to generate other waveforms like a Doom 2, I'm having trouble of where to place it in my chain currently it's c4>uw>spectrum>aftershock>lunar>atlas. Thoughts?
Personally, with much the same rig, I go [EQ2]> Aftershock> C4> Atlas> UW> Spectrum> [Collider]> Lunar, my theory being signal split and EQ and HPF/LPF with EQ2, then dirt/fuzz/OD/whathaveyou, then synth, with compressor to tame that (and I've had the Atlas before it, with the UW after to tame the C4 as well, as that would likely not have a crazy distortion after synth; also, for geetar purposes Tube Screamer in AS> Orange Squeezer in Atlas for the win), UW craziness, or big, fat, clean sound with its fantastic compressor, with envelope to follow that and always like that after synth, then reverb for all that to exist within, whether its a touch of room for my normal, "clean" tone, or lush Halls or massive E-Domes for foghorn type sounds, and I like my modulation last, mainly for phaser. If I had room and desire for a separate Mercury, I'd probably like flanger earlier in the chain, but I rarely use that with bass, and not so often on the guitar, but I love knowing it and chorus are there. Haven't dabbled with the Doom patches in the cloud, but I believe @GMC made at least a couple.
Ok so you use the ultrawave to process clean sounds , ever use the foldovers to do any else. I haven't experimented as off yet...
Thats about what I do too. C4 first for octave and other synth stuff feeding into the UW, with a filter afterwards.
Mostly to make crazy distortion and other sounds but I have also created patches for clean preamp, fretless preamp plus some compression and EQ patches. The tremolo is cool for sequence type sounds. I sometimes use the envelope in the ultrawave but don't run it into the Spectrum that comes after that n the chain.
