NPBD: New Pedal Board

[SimpleSi]

so I've spent some time - and a bit of cash over the past months.

I went from my downsized board back to the starship enterprise.







This Boss ES-8 is crazy cool.

[WellyBlues]

gratuitous display of Duesenberg noted.

[Conway]

What are the midi cables you're using Simon?

[SimpleSi]

What are the midi cables you're using Simon?

Disaster Area Designs Rotate-able Right angled ones.

had a mate who was in melb stop by a guitar store for me who stocks them and brought them over when he flew back to NZ to visit.

http://www.disasterareaamps.com/shop/ri ... midi-cable

there's a couple other in the market that are rotate-able but I liked the look of the Disasters.

[Conway]

What are the midi cables you're using Simon?

Disaster Area Designs Rotate-able Right angled ones.

had a mate who was in melb stop by a guitar store for me who stocks them and brought them over when he flew back to NZ to visit.

http://www.disasterareaamps.com/shop/ri ... midi-cable

there's a couple other in the market that are rotate-able but I liked the look of the Disasters.

Cheers. I'd quite like some of the One Control rotatable cables. Bit pricey though and my current straight plugs aren't really that much of a bother. Is the ES-8 on the updated firmware? I have an ES-5 and waiting for the update on that, which is due very soon. Mostly so I can change patches without sending the default patch midi time clock.

[SimpleSi]

What are the midi cables you're using Simon?

Disaster Area Designs Rotate-able Right angled ones.

had a mate who was in melb stop by a guitar store for me who stocks them and brought them over when he flew back to NZ to visit.

http://www.disasterareaamps.com/shop/ri ... midi-cable

there's a couple other in the market that are rotate-able but I liked the look of the Disasters.

Cheers. I'd quite like some of the One Control rotatable cables. Bit pricey though and my current straight plugs aren't really that much of a bother. Is the ES-8 on the updated firmware? I have an ES-5 and waiting for the update on that, which is due very soon. Mostly so I can change patches without sending the default patch midi time clock.

yea i put it on the latest firmware.

annoyingly though - default for all patches is to send midi CC 81 and 82 for everything. so i had to make a new "default" clean patch and set everything midi to off/0

i couldn't figure out why every patch kept making my Timeline go into looper mode.

ES-8 lets you send 8 Midi messages.

so each message can be 1 PC and 2 CC's with values.

so I have used 2 of the 8..

one for an ambient patch where everything is clean, output internal buffer set to +6DB, Bigsky to a Cloud reverb via PC with a CC to increase Decay AND mix
then another PC and CC value to change my delay patch and set mix high too.

[Conway]

Are you using midi clock & assigning a button on the ES-8 to tap tempo? Im doing that with my ES-5 and Eventide H9 - works well, but under the v1 firmware every time you change patch it sends the new patch bpm to the H9. V2 allows you to not send default patch tempo.

[SimpleSi]

Ahhh ok. I haven't looked into that.

Im using button 8 for tap tempo. Haven't checked if its defaulting to 120 when i change

[Mattallica]

You should get an external TT button and save switch 8 for more pedal switching goodness

[SimpleSi]

You should get an external TT button and save switch 8 for more pedal switching goodness

Theres so many banks and 7 presets. I'll be fine

[Mattallica]

Fair enough. I got an FS7 for my ES5 because i'm skeptical about wear and tear. Also less loops!

[SimpleSi]

Fair enough. I got an FS7 for my ES5 because i'm skeptical about wear and tear. Also less loops!

I read somewhere that the buttons are rated for 15000 presses before you get faults

[Conway]

I have the mute button assigned to tap tempo on my ES-5.

[handsoffmatt]

One of the coolest assign sources on the ES-8/ES-5 is the one called "CNum" (Current Number). It means you can assign the currently lit footswitch to do stuff - so, for example when you switch to preset 5, you could then assign any subsequent presses of footswitch 5 to act as your tap tempo or whatever.

[SimpleSi]

One of the coolest assign sources on the ES-8/ES-5 is the one called "CNum" (Current Number). It means you can assign the currently lit footswitch to do stuff - so, for example when you switch to preset 5, you could then assign any subsequent presses of footswitch 5 to act as your tap tempo or whatever.

Whaaat!


Thats legit