I've been really interested in the Photron, but haven't heard any clips on bass. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it.
The mp201 is something I've looked at briefly, but the adcopy paints it as being so flexible that I'm having trouble picturing specific applications. How is yours connected to your gear and what do you use it for?
I've had it a few days and I've been plugging it into everything. Right now it's going into the Cutoff of the 101, sweep of the 103, lfo/sweep of the bass murf, and into the HOG. I've been playing around with controlling the sweep of the phaser and cutoff of the lpf at the same time with various waveforms (s&h +lpf with high resonance for R2D2 talk, and then click the s&h-phaser on as well for underwater R2D2), controlling the two 6stage phasers in the 103 at the same time- regular phasing+reverse phasing at teh same time, pitch tremolo on the HOG and other interesting HOG waveforms... sample&hold grinder, momentary gate switch for boss slicer-esque cutouts.. etc
It works with all my pedals that have exp input, and it can control them at the same time. Im just barely scratching the surface and Im blown away... I have lots of idea's for this thing that will just take tme and programming, but I think it will be great for live use as well- being able to recall and store presets! I'm going to try and midi sync it to ableton for tonights jam as I haven't tried the midi functionality yet.
Im not sure it's possible yet, but I've been trying to figure out how I can control the cutoff center of a fixed rate lfo-- Hopefully I can do that, and have patches set up for quick switching between a tap tempo'd or midi synched slow and double timed lfo's, as well as the expressor- to switch up the modulation during songs. The footswitches and display make it easy to quickly switch between patches.
Anyway I really like it so far, the user interface is quite friendly and it works great with my non moog pedals and moogs alike. Best thing I've done in a while was sell gear that I wasn't using to buy this!
The photron just shipped today, so I'll be sure to post some clips once i've had a chance to play with it for a couple days.. can't wait! It was listed on thegearpage, so I made a quick sale of the Superdelay and snagged the photron, which I'll get a lot more use out of. I made a few bucks off the Superdelay, so that helped soften the blow a little bit
