New Strymon...

crunchman

Teetonetal said:

crunchman said:

EricTheWeary said:

gibsongretschfan said:

the amount of people wetting their pants in anticipation of being allowed to buy another £500 digital delay pedal makes me wonder about us lot...

...I just want to find out so I know which Chinese knock off to look out for in 6 months. 

This will be harder to knock off than the average overdrive circuit.  Writing the code for it is a different order of complexity than an overdrive.  I've built myself pedal "inspired by" a well known green overdrive - as have thousands of others.  I wouldn't know where to start on one of these.

With enough time and effort, I could probably buy a Raspberry Pi, and figure out how to write the code for a very basic delay, but I could probably make 20 different overdrive knockoffs for the same amount of effort.

Vaguely recall that keylee’s DSP guy just taught himself when Robert decided to go digital..,

i imagine the nice thing is once you have the pedal architecture in place, all you need to do is develop new code... neunaber did that so well for the slate.

Be a lot of work though.  If you look at a Timeline, there are 9 knobs on it, some of them multifunction ones that you can press as well as turn, plus 3 footswitches.  A lot of them have different functions depending on the mode you are using.  There are 12 different delay types plus a looper.  Even without worrying about the quality of the sound, that's a significant amount of stuff to program.  By the time you add MIDI implementation to it all as well, it's a lot of code.  Some of it won't be conceptually difficult, and it's the actual delay algorithms that will be the important part but it's still a lot of work.

You are right that once you've programmed it once, you can reuse a lot of it.  Once they have done it for the Timeline, they could reuse a lot of it for the Mobius and Big Sky.

Fretwired

Gassage said:

Although someone 'in the know' suggested it's a rack multi fx?

They could be launching a range of products but leaks on the net seem to indicate its an Echorec ...

PFAllen2

Got to hand it to their marketing people, they have people talking about it!

benmurray85

PFAllen2 said:

Got to hand it to their marketing people, they have people talking about it!

Tbf I don’t think that Strymon invented the ridiculously drawn out teaser campaign. It seems to be the done thing these days. 

Fretwired

benmurray85 said:

PFAllen2 said:

Got to hand it to their marketing people, they have people talking about it!

Tbf I don’t think that Strymon invented the ridiculously drawn out teaser campaign. It seems to be the done thing these days. 

A dangerous game as it can lead to disappointment.

WiresDreamDisasters

Are you guys real or what??

It was the 2nd of January when they started their campaign:
https://www.facebook.com/strymon/posts/10157281591451416

And they're revealing all 8 days later on the 10th. It's not a ridiculously drawn out teaser campaign. It's just over a weeks worth of instagram pictures and blurry photos on forums. It's just marketing.

Jonathanthomas83

When's 1pm PT then?

JerkMoans

Jonathanthomas83 said:

When's 1pm PT then?

9pm GMT

I googled earlier this afternoon

Jonathanthomas83

:-)

benmurray85

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Are you guys real or what??

It was the 2nd of January when they started their campaign:
https://www.facebook.com/strymon/posts/10157281591451416

And they're revealing all 8 days later on the 10th. It's not a ridiculously drawn out teaser campaign. It's just over a weeks worth of instagram pictures and blurry photos on forums. It's just marketing.

Each to go their own Drew, I just prefer for a product to be released with specs and details readily available. I get too easily sucked into these marketing campaigns and hate myself for it! 

But hey ho I appreciate I’m behind the times with these things. 

Fretwired

Here you go ..

https://www.strymon.net/products/volante/?fbclid=IwAR1Gxf0_gLBwDNraIgPDmXq9jYhx_YaG6TSM2PA0Ssv3AY96kv_Msb1_KC0

Not for me .. the live demo on FB is awful .. the guy has no charisma and spends too much time talking and making funny noises. The makers of Doctor Who will love it ...

Fretwired

This sounds better:

Fretwired

mrkb

I don’t really know much about echo machines, so this maybe simple to answer, but how’s that different from the El Capistan?

Jonathanthomas83

The key for me would have been..."for the tape algorithm we just reused the El Cap algorithm". MIDI El Cap, boom...unfortunately, he didn't say that.

Fretwired

It seems to have elements of the Echorec and Roland Space Echo ... I'll stick with my El Cap.

Jonathanthomas83

Yeah I'm not bothered either, tbh. Strymon stuff always excites me. This is cool, but not for me...thank god!

John_P

Fretwired said:

It seems to have elements of the Echorec and Roland Space Echo ... I'll stick with my El Cap.

Ditto.      If I didn’t have some cool delays then it does look nice enough but I was hoping they were going for something more different to the current line up and i suspect most people they already have an el cap won’t feel the need to upgrade.  

WiresDreamDisasters

I'm getting one.

cbellanga

Jonathanthomas83 said:

The key for me would have been..."for the tape algorithm we just reused the El Cap algorithm". MIDI El Cap, boom...unfortunately, he didn't say that.

Yeah completely agree! An El Cap V3 with Midi would have been killer!