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#65
This is very interesting. From what I can read in the manual we can adjust the pitch of the waveforms, like in the MBSS, but with many other waveforms available. Fine tuning is always a nice touch as well.

From the videos the tracking seems top notch, the final question would be if it is fat enough to make synth bass. I find it a bit expensive, and I would have preferred a smaller box but given the development costs (a little dampened by aiming at the huge guitar market) and the capabilities I think it is a fair price.

I would not get one of these but I'll be happy to hear the feedback from the first users and how it compares to my two favorite pedals (Akai DI and MBSS). For me only these two pedals are capable of "DSI mopho" like bass, which is personally the sound I like.

I really like the interface of the software, similar to standard software synths.

It all revolves around musicality. Would someone make a hit song with this such as Muse (DI) and Florence and the Machine (MBSS) ?

Time will tell, I am happy Boss is using some of his expertise on synth pedals. If this sells well they might release a smaller bass version one day.

Gumtown, tell us what you think about it!!
 
#66
Mister_argentum said:
From the videos the tracking seems top notch, the final question would be if it is fat enough to make synth bass. I find it a bit expensive, and I would have preferred a smaller box but given the development costs (a little dampened by aiming at the huge guitar market) and the capabilities I think it is a fair price.

I would not get one of these but I'll be happy to hear the feedback from the first users and how it compares to my two favorite pedals (Akai DI and MBSS). For me only these two pedals are capable of "DSI mopho" like bass, which is personally the sound I like.

I really like the interface of the software, similar to standard software synths.

It all revolves around musicality. Would someone make a hit song with this such as Muse (DI) and Florence and the Machine (MBSS) ?

Time will tell, I am happy Boss is using some of his expertise on synth pedals. If this sells well they might release a smaller bass version one day.
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I've preordered one, thomann europe will be shipping the earliest on the 24 this month. If this thing delivers I'm selling my Deep Impact (have already sold my BMS, SYB-3 and I have a minty Korg G5 for sale as well).


Looking forward to dive into that world. As far as fat/deep/warm/whatever goes: a keyboard-playing friend of mine already told me that what made the minimoog stand out from the rest is the dirtyness of the thing and that with any bass synth you need to make it dirty to get *that* sound. Armed with a small army of dirtyness on my PB I'd expect that I could cover most of my needed ground here.


Smaller bass version? Don't think that'll happen: a) this *is* a bass version (included a software setting so it tracks better for bass) b) how could this be smaller? I don't know how this relates to the GP-10 dimension-wise (an included exp pedal would've been nice) but I prefer it barebones like this and being able to add whatever you need.



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#67
DeadPoet said:
I've preordered one, thomann europe will be shipping the earliest on the 24 this month. If this thing delivers I'm selling my Deep Impact (have already sold my BMS, SYB-3 and I have a minty Korg G5 for sale as well).


Looking forward to dive into that world. As far as fat/deep/warm/whatever goes: a keyboard-playing friend of mine already told me that what made the minimoog stand out from the rest is the dirtyness of the thing and that with any bass synth you need to make it dirty to get *that* sound. Armed with a small army of dirtyness on my PB I'd expect that I could cover most of my needed ground here.


Smaller bass version? Don't think that'll happen: a) this *is* a bass version (included a software setting so it tracks better for bass) b) how could this be smaller? I don't know how this relates to the GP-10 dimension-wise (an included exp pedal would've been nice) but I prefer it barebones like this and being able to add whatever you need.



Herwig
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I hope this thing delivers too.

With the crazy prices in evilbay you could end up covering the price of two SY with one DI!
 
#68
DeadPoet said:
....As far as fat/deep/warm/whatever goes: a keyboard-playing friend of mine already told me that what made the minimoog stand out from the rest is the dirtyness of the thing and that with any bass synth you need to make it dirty to get *that* sound. Armed with a small army of dirtyness on my PB I'd expect that I could cover most of my needed ground here....
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The unit likely has built-in dirt to run through. Otherwise I'd suggest a dynamic dirt pedal, like a real tube preamp box. That way squelchy, peaky filters get more saturated than the quieter tones. Or a quality MIDI compatible digital dirt box like a Source Audio OFD paired with a Hub.
 
#69
Mister_argentum said:
This is very interesting. From what I can read in the manual we can adjust the pitch of the waveforms, like in the MBSS, but with many other waveforms available. Fine tuning is always a nice touch as well.

From the videos the tracking seems top notch, the final question would be if it is fat enough to make synth bass. I find it a bit expensive, and I would have preferred a smaller box but given the development costs (a little dampened by aiming at the huge guitar market) and the capabilities I think it is a fair price.

I would not get one of these but I'll be happy to hear the feedback from the first users and how it compares to my two favorite pedals (Akai DI and MBSS). For me only these two pedals are capable of "DSI mopho" like bass, which is personally the sound I like.

I really like the interface of the software, similar to standard software synths.

It all revolves around musicality. Would someone make a hit song with this such as Muse (DI) and Florence and the Machine (MBSS) ?

Time will tell, I am happy Boss is using some of his expertise on synth pedals. If this sells well they might release a smaller bass version one day.

Gumtown, tell us what you think about it!!
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I'm not likely to buy one myself unless until they are well out of date and cheap, but the ability to link to a guitar is interesting in terms of the possibilities it opens up.
 
#70
gastric said:
The unit likely has built-in dirt to run through. Otherwise I'd suggest a dynamic dirt pedal, like a real tube preamp box. That way squelchy, peaky filters get more saturated than the quieter tones. Or a quality MIDI compatible digital dirt box like a Source Audio OFD paired with a Hub.
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It has a bunch (20?) of dirt and OD effects, bit crusher, sample rate reducer, and a noise oscillator. Don't know if any of them are good yet but on paper you ought to be able to get some dirty synth.
 
#71
BOSS / Roland digital dirt isn't usually that great. It's always very guitar centric and focused on the high tonal range which usually makes it thin sounding to my ears. But there should also be plenty of EQ in the box to help that out. Sometimes you run the synths through an amp sim that gives you the dirt and some EQ shaping via mics, cabs, tone stack, etc.

Looking forward to hearing some tones. Please let them be deep, fat, modern electronica bass tones. :)
 
#73
This has become an SY-300 threat almost exclusively lol.

I recently got a SYB-5 in a trade in for another pedal and I was quite frankly underwhelmed with it... first of all, the envelope filter sounds were pretty hard to tune down, at first I felt like I was playing with the Manta only not so good sounding. After I got to the non filtered sounds, they are not bad but not amazing, granted I have now been spoiled by the SY-300 videos but still, I'm thinking I would be better served with a EH Bass micro synth than with the SYB-5. Also, the tracking is a bit glitchy.
 
#76
kurotenshi said:
This has become an SY-300 threat almost exclusively lol.

I recently got a SYB-5 in a trade in for another pedal and I was quite frankly underwhelmed with it... first of all, the envelope filter sounds were pretty hard to tune down, at first I felt like I was playing with the Manta only not so good sounding. After I got to the non filtered sounds, they are not bad but not amazing, granted I have now been spoiled by the SY-300 videos but still, I'm thinking I would be better served with a EH Bass micro synth than with the SYB-5. Also, the tracking is a bit glitchy.
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Yeah, that's typical of little synth pedals. I have an SYB-3 and a Bass Synth Wah and they have limited usefulness IMHO.
 

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