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    bill ruppert
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    Effectology Special Edition “Superego Synth Engine”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO3A_nhNf54

    Below are the settings for the Effectology video plus some extra info on granular synthesis.

    Pads
    padsChaincopy.jpg

    SEPad.jpg

    Pizz
    pizzicatoChain.jpg

    SEpizz.jpg

    Gliss
    SEGliss.jpg

    Pulse
    PusleChain.jpg

    StereoPulsar-500x500.jpg

    Reverse
    ReverseroomChain.jpg

    SERevRoom.jpg

    Stack
    LayeredFuzzChain.jpg

    SEStack.jpg

    Orchestron
    OrchestronChain.jpg

    SEOrchestron.jpg

    pogorchestron.jpg

    NeoClone-Superego.jpg

    SmallStone.jpg

    orcestron.jpg

    disk.jpg

    Delay and reverb used:

    MemoryMan.jpg

    Reverb.jpg

    Granular synthesis
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Granular synthesis is a basic sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale.

    It is based on the same principle as sampling. However, the samples are not played back conventionally, but are instead split into small pieces of around 1 to 50ms. These small pieces are called grains. Multiple grains may be layered on top of each other, and may play at different speeds, phases, volume, and frequency.

    At low speeds of playback, the result is a soundscape, often a cloud, that is manipulable in a manner unlike that for natural sound sampling or other synthesis techniques. At high speeds, the result is heard as a note or notes of a novel timbre. By varying the waveform, envelope, duration, spatial position, and density of the grains, many different sounds can be produced.

    Both have been used for musical purposes: as sound effects, raw material for further processing by other synthesis or digital signal processing effects, or as complete musical works in their own right. Conventional effects that can be achieved include amplitude modulation and time stretching. More experimentally, stereo or multichannel scattering, random reordering, disintegration and morphing are possible

    #117418
    mauriciomf
    Member

    Fantastic Episode!!! Great Pedal!!! Isn’t on the site yet?

    #117420
    kevorkian
    Member

    Bill, do you record these demos through an amp or direct?

    #117421
    Louis
    Member

    This one blows me away!!!! Would this work with Bass? What about if I had a Moog Minotaur? If not then will we see a bass edition of the superego?

    You guys have out done yourself this time.

    #117427

    Is there an official release date for this yet? Dying to get my hands on one!

    #117428

    Also, I’d love to see how the Ravish Sitar and the Microsynth sound when put in front of the pedal and into the effects loop. I can see both generating some crazy sounds.

    #117429
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    They are shipping limited quantities in 2 + weeks.

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    Is there an official release date for this yet? Dying to get my hands on one!
    #117430
    mauriciomf
    Member

    The Freeze uses the Granular synthesis too??

    #117432
    greggieboi
    Member

    sounds very good, but how does this sound without any other effects?

    #117433
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    I go direct with a clean Fender amp simulator.
    Very neutral in sound.

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    Bill, do you record these demos through an amp or direct?
    #117434
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    Thanks!
    It works great with bass.

    Quote:
    This one blows me away!!!! Would this work with Bass? What about if I had a Moog Minotaur? If not then will we see a bass edition of the superego?

    You guys have out done yourself this time.

    #117435
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    look here:
    http://www.premierguitar.com/Video/20120321/1897/Electro_Harmonix_Superego_Synth_Engine_Crying_Tone_Wah_Demos.aspx

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    sounds very good, but how does this sound without any other effects?
    #117436
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    Yes.
    But the superego lets you play it more like an instrument with the auto mode and gliss.
    The effects loop lets you take it further yet.

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    The Freeze uses the Granular synthesis too??
    #117437
    Gerard
    Member

    Yeah pal, I see what you did there. The pedal chain in the Orchestron is almost the same to the pedal chain of the ARP Solina sound you showed for St.Patrick day, but of course both the Orchestron and the Solina were developed to try to fit the Mellotron´shoes and both were used for symphonic textures (thoug my favourite would allways be the freeman)

    acording to here: http://www.gepr.net/proginst.html the use of the Orchestron was featured in Yes´s Relayer with Patrick Moraz, though the monster Orchestron that he used looks nothing like the modest keyboard in the video.

    I was thinking in buying the freeze but the super ego looks better for drones, with the effects loop and all that. What would you say is the main difference in sound other than the extra features? I feel the frozen sound in the Superego sounds more Synthetized, It could be my imagination, or the way you set the Big Muff, cause It doesnt soun like an overdriven freeze.

    Also CAN YOU GET TRANSPOSITION/PORTAMENTO SOUNDS like the ones you got with the V256?

    #117438
    DavidS
    Participant

    Wow love this pedal. Is it possible in the future ehx might release a reverb pedal that has an effects loop. That way you could change the reverb sound by adding effects to it and keep the dry signal normal. Treating the reverb like delay repeats?

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