Quatschmacher

Subdecay makes some pretty interesting stuff.

That’s a stock Yamaha DX7 patch. Not really possible on C4, but try some of the FM basses I uploaded last night to get in the ballpark (I did 16 different ones and a few use that high frequency modulation heard here).

I’m hoping he’ll send me some pictures in the meantime.

It has but I can’t get out to pick up for another couple of weeks.

As always, adjust input and output to suit your own instrument. These were all programmed on a passive P bass and are obviously fine volume-wise for that setup.

Just uploaded another series of 16 FM basses.

Had to cancel my birthday plans today due to being snowed in. Annoying as I was supposed to be picking up my custom Shuker bass. On the plus side, I got to do a bit of C4 programming. I recently got to borrow a Yamaha DX7 so have been getting to grips with FM synthesis and wanted to bring some of what I’ve learned to the C4’s FM engine, particularly being able to replicate analogue style basis waveforms. I wasn’t able to accomplish everything due to some of the architectural quirks of the C4 (such as FM depth always being routed through an envelope) but I’ve managed to create a third (somewhat muted) sawtooth wave to make some big 3-saw sounds. Also did some other FM basses. Have posted the new patches to Neuro. Hope you enjoy them.

It’s ready but I can’t get out to collect it due to the snow!

This is normal. It’s a design choice which makes the FI trigger faster. A note-on trigger from the audio input is quicker to calculate than the time it takes to determine the pitch of a note. So, in order to provide fast triggering, the FI plays whatever note was previously played and pitches up or down to the new note as soon as its pitch has been determined. This is great for playing ghost notes on bass but does make octaves a tad frustrating. One suggestion I had made during development was to be able to switch this faster triggering off so that notes only play once pitch has been determined but there was no code space left. (The C4 has two modes, one which prioritises speed, the other which prioritises pitch accuracy.)

Strictly speaking, it’s not really tracking anything at all, which is why it’s fast. There’s no pitch detection in the Boss; it’s adding signal processing to the dry signal received. (The FI by contrast performs a pitch calculation and triggers a DSP oscillator.)

I’d put everything in the C4’s loop, then you can have a single preset which passes the signal from those pedals to the output without having the C4 be in use, but also allows you to route them in whatever way you like as part of a preset.

This is that.

@Sibob is it worth making this a sticky somewhere? Maybe in the marketplace headers?

Well, at some point I may take @pedup on his kind offer of a loan and can get programming and would be happy to share. Alternatively, maybe I could loan yours and you could loan my spare FI? I should hopefully be up your neck of the woods next month…

Should be ready the middle of next week according to Jon!

Dark horse, had I known that…

Wait, what? You’ve had a Squeezer all this time and you never said?!

Audiostretch iOS app. I used to use Transcribe years ago.

Just came across this, which could be useful. https://missinginstruments.co.uk