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You could buy it direct from Panda in Hungary if all else fails. Thomann had them in but seem to not stock them at present.

There will be latency at the low end. It’s simple physics as it takes about 12ms to read half a waveform of a low E. Even the FI, brilliant as it is, can’t overcome that. The trick I use on the FI is to pitch it down an octave and play higher up, this halving the latency.

Don’t skimp on powering it. If it requires 120mA then make sure it gets it or you’ll have all sorts of weirdness happen (the presets are digitally controlled and will likely fail to work if underpowered). See if the One Spot powers enough. If not, a dedicated power box is a great thing. I waited far too long before getting one. By “daisy chaining” do you mean the power or do you mean audio signal order? If the latter, put the synth before the distortion as post filter distortion sounds cool and you could likely use it in conjunction with the synth. The other way round probably won’t be as useful as running the drive into the synth (if both are engaged) might mess up the tracking.

There are plenty of free presets. I’ve shared all the ones I’ve made so far as have others. You can still tweak those on the pedal and get them to sound quite different. There are also purchasable sound packs which don’t cost the earth.

Enzo sounds great and has the advantage that all the sounds can be programmed directly from the pedal. However, it has some drawbacks - very limited envelope shaping options, neccessity of purchasing extra gear to access (only 16) presets, no master volume control and the bizarre feature that automatically saves the preset when you use any shift function. I’m not convinced it sounds better than the FI, just different. The SVF is a welcome bonus in the Enzo.

I’d almost agree fully (and Sub Phatty is awsome; Minitaur is also a good choice) except that the Future Impact is a synth that happens to be in pedal format.

The future Impact has a built-in tuner and does distortion if that helps. Also worth pointing out that the FI is also a keyboard synth if you hook it up to a midi controller keyboard (like a Keystep).

You can do the programming at home and then simply jump to your saved presets when playing live.

I meant deep programming via the editor. There are plenty of synth players who simply pay others to do the programming (including Herbie Hancock).

Enzo has 16 presets but requires extra outlay to access them. FI has 99 with no extra.

It’s well worth the extra. It does so much. If you don’t like programming, you can simply download patches that others have shared.

You can set up the patches however you like and simply engage them via the footswitch or midi commands. It will always play in parallel (intervallically speaking) but the offset can be whatever you like.

You may be interested in “the journey” but all roads eventually lead to the Future Impact (and then ultimately to keys). Seriously, save yourself the headache, time and money and buy a Future Impact. (Meris Enzo is a close-ish second.)

Not true with the Future Impact, you can create patches which preserve the dry bass signal too, running synth and bass in parallel. The synth doesn’t even need to necessarily be in unison either. Actually, the forthcoming update includes an advanced chord mode whereby you can play chords and a bass note and use a footswitch to change chord type on the fly.

As he said at the end of the video, he’s not going to release it until he’s tried his hardest to break it.

It’s exciting that Joel plans on making this a whole line of pedals.

YES! This is what I’ve been waiting for: analogue pedals with presets with sliders that jump to the positions! Chase Bliss is amazing.

I picked up a Wombtone MkII at the weekend at my local shop and am loving it. It has a lot of the versatility of the Moogerfooger as regards use with expression but it takes it further by being able to control multiple parameters and sweep directions from one expression pedal. It really has the best of both worlds by having fat, analogue sound, a live settings mode and presets. If they were to make an analogue octave/fuzz combo and a dedicated filter I’d be buying them.

I finally figured out why my Manta presets were behaving erratically with my TouchOSC template - there were three presets which had CCs assigned instead of PCs. All sorted now. If you’ve used this, please download it again as I’ve updated the saved version (has the same number though). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aJBilCdrp1k6OpMm_dZkuOrNPUw6CiCX/view?usp=drivesdk

Mike bought my Q-Tron. Went from initial contact to receiving payment in about 20 minutes. Really smooth transaction. Thanks.