Eventide Space

[madmax1012]

so much sound...i feel like it's overkill however

[maxwellm]

The presets all seem very subtle or OVERPOWERING but they do give a good set of places to start from. Though I kinda wish there was an easy way to add more, or even a not-easy way, really. I mean, I could just write my tweaks over whatever's there, but a few more spaces for patches would be kinda nice. Still, can sound great and I haven't even scratched the surface yet.

[univalve]

keep your thoughts coming. i like to read it.

[maxwellm]

"Okay. I'll just play with it a few minutes before doing actual work."

An hour later, during which I'm only looking at the 12 main presets.

"Oh, yeah. I'm supposed to be working forty minutes ago. Damn."

Completely ridiculous what this thing can do. The trick will be to make it not sound like "You're totally using BLACK HOLE again, aren't you?" "But BLACK HOLE sounds sooooo good."

[dubkitty]

yeah, it seems that the wonderfulness AND the difficulty is located between the extreme presets and the overly subtle presets.

[maxwellm]

I would like a place to store some of the presets (though I think I'll keep the ones from the Blonde Redhead guitarist, those mesh well with where my head's at), but it seems that the best route is just to explore the algorithms and stretch those to get 'em to do what I want. The compressor/swell set is pretty nice, actually. As is dual just for the excessive vastness of it all.

Also would like to have the presets tell me what they are before I turn a knob and thus edit them. I bet there's a way to do it, just haven't bothered to drag it out of the manual.

[dubkitty]

are there no spots to store user patches without saving over the presets? that seems really short-sighted, and i've never seen a device that didn't allow SOME blank spots.

[maxwellm]

Ships with 100 presets. 1-12 are the algorithms that are hardwired in. 13-100 are various factory patches and some programmed by recording engineers/musicians. It also stores only 100 presets.

I might be missing something, but I'm afraid I'm not.

Still, it sounds beautiful, just a matter of taming it.

EDIT - Ah, you can store presets on your computer, which is...clunky but an acceptable option. So, monkey with stuff and store everything on the PC, just keep the ones you use actively on the pedal itself.

[madmax1012]

i love me some deep reverbs, but the Eventide stuff has never really blown me away. Yeah the space sounds good, but I just can't justify the price for the amount of ambience I'd need it for

[maxwellm]

I couldn't justify it but did it anyways.

And the dual reverb is deeeeeeeeeeeep. But yeah, this ain't something that belongs in every toolbox.

[Gone Fission]

EDIT - Ah, you can store presets on your computer, which is...clunky but an acceptable option. So, monkey with stuff and store everything on the PC, just keep the ones you use actively on the pedal itself.

We need a MIDI patch librarian renaissance, even if it necessitates that I purchase an iPad. The one-off, by-device solutions, can be good, but I want all the control in one place.

[maxwellm]

Word. It's clear that they expect dickering and libraries of presets to be crafted by users. Just wish it was easier.

And this might mean I have a tin ear, but playing direct to headphones (not monitors) out, the distortion in the Space sounded...okay. I suspect it was just because I was up too late last night.

[oinkbanana]

I would like a computer editor. not just the library save, but being able to connect via usb to edit, name, modify and save presets.


I just upgraded mine to the 4.0 software. looking forward to hearing some of the changes.

[maxwellm]

Yeah, being able to edit patches or copy/paste patches wholesale and be able to choose between winners and losers would be great.

Now if only I could set levels that capture the lows and still don't clip. Frustrating.

[Gone Fission]

I would like a computer editor. not just the library save, but being able to connect via usb to edit, name, modify and save presets.

Opcode's librarian software did that all back in '96 except for the MIDI over USB. We've lost something along the way. That's what I'm saying.