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synth lovers 2015!!

#81
Reading through sound synthesis and sampling by Martin Russ to try and get a grasp on all this. Guess what?


MIGRAINE!!! Man there is a lot that goes into this....G-tric (and other synth enthusiasts) how long until some of this stuffis starts to make sense/look familiar??
 
#85
I am now in possession of a Yamaha G-50 and B1-D and G1-D. The G1-D may be broken - I will have to test further.

First impressions were that with bass the with the divided pickup attached to the body of the bass the signal was low, typically under 10%. Raising the pickup on a bed of blutak got it to range between 20% and 90% for reasonable playing parameters and meant that triggering was a bit more reasonable. There isn't quite enough clearance to place it on the top of the pickguard, but there is space in front of or behind the bridge pickup. To get a reliable signal the gap between the pickup and the strings is pretty minimal.

It will take some fiddling with the parameters to determine if it can be made to play reliably. At the moment reliable is not what I'd call it. But there are many option for controlling start/stop thresholds, pitch bend, etc. It seems to be hit and miss with just the mono input (which should work along the lines of the Sonuus B2M).

Unfortunately I can't seem to pass the standard magnetic pikcup though the unit as the audio output on the unit has a continual chirping on it. Maybe I can sort this, but it does limit the options for routing. I.e. I can't route the standard bass output into the 13 core cable to the unit, out, and into further effects, so would need to run both a 13 core AND a standard cable.

So far I've just tried into into the PC with Reaper as I can track the MIDI input more easily, although I need to rework the installation of the plugins... the joy of new installs of windows 8! When that is working I can fire the MIDI into my Proteus 2000 and then use the Zoom B9 to control patch changes and extra processing with the Proteus in the Zoom's loop.

The the next issue will be seeing if the guitar pickup works (two sensors weren't picking anything up).
 
#86
So I've been doing a lot of reading on bass synth and, for all the offer out there, there seems to be a lack of continuity to the offerings.
You have some choice in simple stomps like the Boss or Digitech stuff up to higher end EHX, TWA... But then, if you want more control, preset saving and, specially, MIDI you have to go all the way SY-300.
That said, the Future Impact is looking like the only feature-rich, customizable, compact, MIDI enabled bass-synth out there (although still not out there)

Now, since I really am a noob on the subject, am I looking at this the wrong way?
 
#87
The discontinued G5, Octavius Squeezer and Deep Impact have more parameter controls and preset ability as does the currently available Markbass Synth, but they also have some (significant) limitations and of course, no midi.

You are not wrong about the SY300, but don´t forget its predecessor (?), the GR55 which is still available. The Boss/Roland offerings do not move the needle for me at all and I agree with you, the Future Impact seems to be the best option forthcoming.
 
#88
I had a g5 but got rid of it. Some regret, but the recent Zooms offer decent options for filter/dist/octave/chorus, although the official synth sounds are indifferent or track poorly...

Better progress now with my Yamaha set up now I've done a factory reset, read the manual and have the pickup much closer to the strings but I will need to work on a better mounting and latency.

The reset cured the noise on the direct bass sound.

Through the mono bass (6.35mm jack) the tracking is better than the Sonuus but the latency is higher. I will try through a hardware synth but it might require a hybrid approach - b1d to g50 to synth for pads (little risk of glitching, chording an option), in the loop of a Zoom b9, but sounds from the Zoom for faster passages
 

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