Cracking the Code on Complex Guitar Pedals

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I am shifting the conversation from here over to here @stschoen.

@stschoen

It’s hard to know how things will gel with a complex setup like yours, until you can actually try them out. Things that look good on paper often turn out to be impractical in the real world. Unfortunately these days it’s not really possible to try before you buy. (Not that it ever was here in the music store desert.)

I am pretty lucky that when I go to the city I can actually go into a small music room and the people will let me pick a guitar, grab an amp and try out some of the gear, pedals, etc…But its not like trying to integrate it with your system. It would be neat if it got to the point where you could bring your own stuff in and try setting things up together and people would see it as charming that you were at it all day in there.

@stschoen

In fact, I would say that a desktop Hydrasynth would make a pretty amazing add to a modular or semi-modular rig.

Yes, I am glad you are enjoying it. Not quite the same thing, but I did find that the elektron Analog Four MK1 also integrated well with it’s four assignable CV/Gate outputs, MIDI, etc… It also had a stereo input that would multitrack into a DAW (meaning you could plug the output of your modular into the A4 and it would show up in Ableton along with the four tracks for a total of 6). If I could have afforded it I definitely would have kept it.

@stschoen

It would make modules significantly less expensive if voltage ranges were lower and it would also ease interconnection if audio signals were at line level. I can envision a more modern standard similar to Eurorack but getting vendors to adopt one might be unmanageable.

The longer I am in conversation with you the more I think that you would defintely thrive running a small synth company of some sort. Remember, Os from Expert Sleepers does it all.

@stschoen

Your comment regarding sync got me to looking at the RC-505 user manual.

Syrett recommended this to me before and I addressed that here. I have gone over and over the available options for loopers too many times. I need to put that to rest.

@stschoen

I would love to have a Strymon Magneto in my rack but, since I don’t perform it’s hard to justify when I have already have a ton of reverb/echo plug-ins.

Instruo does get the guitar out at this point.

Instruo - Lubadh Overview

I don’t imagine anyone watched this far into it. He strikes me as the kind of guy that would try to think of everything, and if I bought one and I had a reasonable request he might tweak the firmware. This would, however, shift my rack away from synthesis and more toward recording – which might be okay.

Speaking of expert sleepers…

disting EX - Looper

• I wanted to also say that I was feeling a bit down. Thanks for engaging me some. I could get some engagement on reddit or muffwiggler but its nice to have some friends in the know.