The inevitable b9 idea thread

[Rob Leishman]

How about a b9 pedal that emulates strings , electric piano, and synths. Please.

[theodor]

would be cool….

i’m thinking base strings somehow on the hazarai reverse patch, and shimmer kind of sounds, that is, something reverby based because it kind of gets close but no one ever purposely made an algorythm to simulate strings or any other instrument…

and piano would be great if there was a ‘sustain pedal’ pedal, but i’m not sure how they’d create pianos!

an additive synth would be great…like a hog but with many more pitch shifters…and simplified controls like even or odd harmonics or something like that…i’m just thinking like harmor, or kawai k5000 synth, but instead of using sines is it possible to use guitar….

or granular synthesiser…chopping up the guitar signal and putting it out as some synth sound…

could they also create the first convolution pedal? that would also be great…not for reverbs necessarily, but for totally weird stuff.

I figured they were probably using some of these things in their recent pedals already, along with granular synthesis too…just seemed the obvious route to go down!

(i really want a hazarai mark ii first though!)

[backalleyblues]

I sent this to the braintrust at EHX yesterday, I’ll post it here too…

1) Add a compressor to the front end-I had suggested this idea in the Telecaster Discussion page forum (this thread- http://www.tdpri.com/forum/stomp-box/492047-electro-harmonix-b9-organ-machine-so-cool.html ) and several people have reported back that a compressor does indeed improve the tracking. Make it a simple, 1 knob style like you see on Yamaha mixers, but tuned for the B9 engine.

2) Add a volume pedal on the output. For organ swells, naturally!

3) A Fast/Slow switch for the MOD (chorus) knob. They can be preset to match the speed of a real Leslie, and would allow us to play more like an organist does (changing speeds for solo/background/chord changes, etc).

4) More tones! I know you can only fit so many settings on a rotary knob, and you guys did great in the choices-but it would be nice to have a few more available voices, too! Probably would have to go digital to accomplish this, which leads to…

5) Switchable presets/memory! Accessible via either a pair of switches (up/down) or some electronic means, I would doubt we would need more than 100 presets, but it sure would be nice to not have to reach down and tweak the pedal on the fly!

6) USB/MIDI access-kill several birds with one “small stone” (pun intended!)-either attach an external switch via USB, MIDI control via USB (lots of keyboards already have this), and deeper editing of patches using a computer attached via USB…

Methinks this would make a fine B9 Deluxe pedal…

[Sert]

If you have a midi guitar controller or some sort of Midi pickup, you could try controlling the Waldorf Streichfett with it.

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