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You’ll need to copy the parameter knob position markers exactly for any decal/artwork as they are precisely positioned and the lack of detented knobs doesn’t help.

This is pretty much the norm for analogue synths these days - analogue pots with digital control. Chase Bliss does this in its pedals too.

To paraphrase Airplane - looks like I picked the wrong year to quit buying pedals.

Just came across this rather cool idea: https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/stompenberg-effects/

New patches added today.

I have two, but am still interested in this.

What the hell happened in here overnight? I feel like I’ve walked into a trashed room.

The reason why the Pralines “issues” couldn’t be sorted (a desire to have some LPFs in place of some of the BPFs) was due to its having a global resonance control and the fact that the circuit boards had already been manufactured. You may be aware that LPF and BPF respond differently to resonance. In fairness, Olivier did try out the suggestions and was very accommodating and gracious. In his new “Moutarde” he has made the filters all low pass and given them individual resonance controls. He’s actually now delivered the pedal that was asked for (though he was already working on it)! He has said he does want to move towards digital control (i.e. presets) but has acknowledged that it’s quite costly and that he has much to learn in that area.

I’d say it is a bit harsh. Olivier is a one-man company and doesn’t have anything like the R&D budget of a company like Source Audio (which is also a small company, but huge by comparison). He definitely is clued-up as to what else is out there but is carving his own niche. If he manages to sell enough pedals to customers to fund building what he wants to build then I think that’s great. If everything were ruled by budget and “what customers want”, there’d be much less creativity and that would be a sad thing.

The Glou-Glou stuff is 100% analogue.

@Embra has an Enzo. I don’t think this (SA C4) is too much in competition with the FI as the FI goes a lot deeper in terms of number of oscillators and waveforms; the new update will add significantly to the options available for modulation routing. The Enzo still offers options not likely to be included on the new SA pedals. What makes the SA appealing is that there’ll be finer control over the envelopes. I think I’ll leave my little PayPal pot alone until this comes out.

I’ve been following and contributing to this on thegearpage and am very excited about this. They’ll be at NAMM with it at the end of the month so there should be some videos soon.

Behold: Turn off the PLL and it’s essentially a lowpass version of the Pralines, though with individual resonances for each filter (the Pralines has just one, global resonance control).

@mr zed, now that you’ve joined the club, make sure you have the means to hook up to your PC by the time it arrives so you can try out all the great shared patches, either via an audio interface with MIDI ports or via a dedicated USB-MIDI adapter (there’s a list of ones already tested for compatibility on the Panda site).

Definitely check out the Enzo. I tried it the other day. It should do what you need. For example for your pitch shift needs, you could either turn the knob to shift pitch or use the expression morph function to just have a specific interval dialled in between the toe-up and toe-down positions.

I think this might be the way to go for me too, thanks for pointing it out.

Try TouchOSC first, it’s free and pretty powerful (though it has couple of quirks such as toggle buttons sending midi in both press and release with no way to disable one or the other). You could actually get a hardware MIDI controller for it as all parameter are controlled via CCs. There are some products which are just units with a bunch of knobs that can be freely assigned. I really hope Meris refine it too. Angelo seemed to be taking the stance that it was complete as is, which is a little disappointing - admittedly it’s pretty amazing the way it is but surely there’s room for improvement if the hardware and firmware allows. I certainly wouldn’t mind getting one. I wish this had been around when I first started buying pedals as it would have saved me much time and money (though I have enjoyed the journey and have learned a lot on the way).

I think I have to agree with @tonyxtiger that the Meris has tighter tracking than the FI. I found that fast octave switching seemed much more reliable. How are you finding yours, @Embra, now that you’ve had more time with it and used to own a FI?

I’ve just re-read the manual. I’m puzzled by the way presets have been implemented as it means it’s really easy to accidentally overwrite them. Presets are saved by pressing the “alt. function” button, so basically whenever you make an adjustment to one of the shift-function parameters (such as filter resonance), the preset gets overwritten. This seems a daft choice. It seems there’s no way to use a given preset as a springboard, tweak it to one’s liking and then save it as a new preset without losing the original one (unless you’ve already backed it up to a computer). Doesn't appear that you can the filter controlled by the envelope without having the ring mod also controlled by it (unless maybe adjusting ring mod via midi cc overrides the envelope). Also seems that there isn’t a way to further control the sensitivity of the envelope follower to the input signal. There’s no final level control! Just a switch between instrument level and line level output.

Just save the money and get the FI. You’ll only end up getting one eventually anyway! The Enzo is pretty damn cool too (I finally got to try one today alongside my FI - see my Enzo thread for a review).