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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) > > > > > > > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ