The Underrated Synth Pedal: Zoom MS 100BT
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Running a homemade patch into the MS 100.
I am probably wrong about why this pedal was abandoned if it was abandoned at all or just became too old. Since all the virtual pedals were free in the app I assumed that it was a failed product. I generally don't see many MS-100's out there. I have no idea how I missed some of these virtual app pedals the first time, they aren't new but I swear some of them were not there when I first downloaded the app.
I've got something like this called an "iStomp" Same deal, it's old, it's discontinued, all the pedals on the app are free. The delays and the reverbs sound great. The pedals are still around, still pretty cheap too.
ill have to check this one out, never heard of it!
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Dry Patch: 3:58
Playing around 4:45
I tested this one, the latency was very low, but the algos were simplistic. All the modulation is done with linear interpolation, the spring reverb did not have the 4K divot that defines a spring reverb.
If I had a better pedals to compare it to it would be nice to see how the zoom falls short. I also wonder how much has changed in the newer zooms? The only thing I think I could compare it to would be the Arturia plugins I have. Do you have any videos up explaining the algos? That would be really useful to people like me who have no clue. The more I read the more it seems like designing a good reverb is hard work?
@@playeveryday01 I never did any algo videos. Mostly because it would take a lot of images to explain the concepts. Something I am not very good at. Also a lot of the concepts overlap.
For a chorus, you need to change the delay slightly over time. With digital, you only get samples at discrete intervals of time, so for a chorus you need to get values in between two samples. You can do this by drawing a line in between the two samples and getting the value that way. (fraction * sample[n] + (1-fraction) * sample[n-1]). This seems logical and is pretty easy to understand, so it is often used. The problem comes in with overlapping concepts. It turns out that (fraction * sample[n] + (1-fraction) * sample[n-1]) is the same structure as a simple lowpass filter (c[0]* samp[n] + c[1] * samp[n-1]). So what ends up happening is the amount of highs gets louder and softer as the chorus changes its delay time. For a guitar it is not that much of a problem since a guitar does not really produce that many highs.
I have a newer version of my software that I will release next year, so I have been looking for video ideas that do not require buying stuff. The big change is windows support as the last version was only mac/linux.