Re: 'slow gear' effect

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

I was always curious on this one,how would the SE-70
compare to the Boss VF-1 soundwise? i hear he VF-1
reverbs arenīt that warm sounding.
Luis




--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Qua,
> 
> I took five off to read up on the SE-70 and I really
> got surprised by  
> how useful it seems! Below is what Patchmanmusic's
> Matt writes about  
> the SE-70. Matt is the in-house sound designer at
> Patchmanmusic and  
> his sounds are used by the leading wind controller
> synthesists of the  
> world. If he thinks the SE-70 is "amazing" there
> must be something to  
> it ;-)
> 
> >> Boss SE-70 Super Effects Processor
> >>
> >> The Boss SE-70 is an amazing device. Aside from
> great sounding  
> >> reverbs, delays, etc..., it has several effects
> that are not  
> >> commonly found on other effects processors. It
> has 2 vocoders, a  
> >> guitar synth, bass synth, (these synths can track
> any mono  
> >> acoustic instrument complete with a dynamic
> enveloped filter and  
> >> amp envelope!), a tuner, a 60 cycle hum remover,
> a vocal remover,  
> >> TRUE stereo reverbs (stereo in and out), great
> sounding  
> >> distortions and pitch shifters, a 20(!) tap
> delay, 16 stage  
> >> chorus, 40 stage phaser, a sampler, and on and
> on. It can chain a  
> >> large amount of effects for massive processing.
> It can respond to  
> >> MIDI controllers and up to 3 pedals. It's a
> pretty cool device. It  
> >> is capable of doing all sorts of things to your
> sounds. The guitar  
> >> and bass synths algorithms can be used with the
> acoustic trumpet  
> >> or flugelhorn as pitch-tracking synthesizers!
> That's right, this  
> >> thing will track your horn and synthesize it
> (internally only- it  
> >> doesn't do pitch to MIDI conversion). It sounds
> great!
> >>
> 
> Obviously there is no way in the world to "guess"
> how the thick  
> texture of your "slow gear" sound is done within the
> SE-70. What you  
> can do is to get hold of a unit for a while and
> analyze it. That's  
> what I did with the Eventide Eclipse and the TC
> Electronic FireworX.  
> For the sounds I liked I checked out (1) what effect
> modules were in  
> use, (2) how these modules were routed, (3) how
> parameters in  
> different modules were linked to parameters in other
> modules for  
> interactivity and finally (4) how the performance
> parameters where  
> set up for the musician. When you learn a bit of
> this you can set up  
> the same effect patches in software. But, I'm not
> sure this is true  
> for the SE-70 though, since it has some functions
> that may not yet be  
> available as software "under the same roof". Please
> don't take my  
> words for truth here, because I have not played with
> e SE-70 yet.
> 
> Links:
> http://www.patchmanmusic.com/MattsEVIGigRig01.html
>
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/product/Boss/
> 
> SE-70/10/1
> 
> Per
> 
> 
> On 7 dec 2007, at 12.30, Qua Veda wrote:
> 
> > The effect I'm thinking of on the Boss SE70 was
> more than a swell, it
> > created a very rich sound.  I don't have one to
> play with now, so I  
> > can
> > recall what the multi effect included.    But it
> was very nice for  
> > some
> > things.
> > -Qua
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:22 AM
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: Re: 'slow gear' effect
> >
> > On 7 dec 2007, at 05.33, Qua Veda wrote:
> >
> >>  It is a slow-attack, chorus-verb type effect
> that creates
> >> kind of a volume swell and sustained sound.
> >
> >
> > My TC FireworX had a couple of those patches. Seem
> many programmable
> > boxes have them. I truly dislike those patches -
> although I love the
> > sound they produce. My hang-up is that I prefer to
> play the swell and
> > sustain manually on the physical instrument.
> That's just so more
> > expressive and fun to play with.
> >
> > Greetings from Sweden
> >
> > Per Boysen
> > www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> > www.looproom.com (international)
> > http://www.youtube.com/pellibox (gritty)
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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