the future is now, where's the cool shit?

[ancientbones]

I'd like to see more arduino developments for the effects pedal realm. I think I've heard of someone making an overdrive using an arduino board before. I'd have to look it up later if I can remember.

Anyways, I don't know why more arduino pedals haven't been developed yet. If ya'll know of any I'm curious. It's a great platform for other things, I'm sure it could be applied to pedals to a greater extent.

[Gone Fission]

I'd like to see more arduino developments for the effects pedal realm. I think I've heard of someone making an overdrive using an arduino board before. I'd have to look it up later if I can remember.

Anyways, I don't know why more arduino pedals haven't been developed yet. If ya'll know of any I'm curious. It's a great platform for other things, I'm sure it could be applied to pedals to a greater extent.

Aren't the stock ad/da are like 8 bit? Limits choices of what to usefully do with one.

[rfurtkamp]

Yep. Back then, for good or for ill, you could kernel panic half the rack units into doing horrible things (sometimes good, sometimes shutdown, sometimes patch change would fix) - I have a couple on my Quadraverb that are literally as close as you can get to it shutting down due to signal loop or overload, and they're glorious.

Or the first "assign anything to MIDI" floor unit I'm aware of, the Boss ME-10 - you could assign midi switching to the distortion circuit (which was still analog), and swap between them in real time as the thing struggled to make sense of the signal.

I miss the non-curated stuff - even the Lexicon Vortex is a step into curated stuff (because it's all "pick one thing, and boom with variations" even if you can morph between two settings (and leave it there). By the late 90s, it was all pretty much curated stuff.

AND THEN THE MODELERS CAME. RIP most fun stuff.

The truth is that I've played *very* few pieces of gear in the last 15 years that added something significant to the sounds I could make in 1992 or earlier. And short of the Vortex, the mid 90s were pretty barren for neat stuff as the effects market cratered.

If I was to pick one singular unit of the last twenty years that added something substantially new to me, I'd hands-down go with the Roland VG-99. Even its simplified brother (in the 55) is still an astonishing piece of gear. It, however, went over like a ton of bricks both for price and the "it won't make me sound like SRV" contingent. Digitech would get a close second from me with the Time Bender - I'd have loved to have seen a VST plugin of it with advanced features or something or a rack unit or...anything that let me go past the curated stuff that's still awesome.

But even here, the focus is on the stuff of 25+ years ago - the Boss PS2, the Big Muff fixation, etc.

And in the end, the end result dictates a lot of the gear. Other than little occasional freakouts to enjoy a new direction mid-set, most folks are still doing the rock band thing, even if it's masquerading as a Saint Vitus tribute band.

[behndy]

muffs suck. sound fucking awful. swampy butt ratt vagine toes.

NO THANK YOU.

[D.o.S.]

Yeah you're wrong,

but I thought the Hot hand was a pretty cool new thing.

[backwardsvoyager]

i'm kinda surprised the hot hand didn't really take off that much. i'd been meaning to try it for ages cos i'm absolutely rubbish at using treadle pedals with stuff.
lots more stuff with expression/cv control nowadays though. motion control technology has moved forward a lot this decade so there should be more exciting things approaching in that realm. a guy from my old uni uses reprogrammed wii remotes to perform drums by triggering samples and morphing them in a 'grid' of empty air. i think those kind of concepts are a lot more promising/versatile than accelerometer types.

[behndy]

i like the hot hand a lot. i'm having a hard time writing a second song with it that doesna sound derivative, but that's on me, not the tech.

[D.o.S.]

Yeah I mean my impression of it is entirely that Bloodparty studio vid, but it sounded pretty rad there.

[behndy]

Yeah I mean my impression of it is entirely that Bloodparty studio vid, but it sounded pretty rad there.

d'awwwwww thanks homie.

[goroth]

Yeah I mean my impression of it is entirely that Bloodparty studio vid, but it sounded pretty rad there.

Me too man haha!

[behndy]

lol. well, we did a sort of video thing for that song too, not just the studio bit.

https://youtu.be/PI20oJRKJJ8

[waltdogg]

Computer fans.

[Inconuucl]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5ltxihivA[/youtube]

Battles gets it.

[D.o.S.]

NO BRAXTON NO BATTLES

[backwardsvoyager]

NO BRAXTON NO BATTLES