I have zero idea how this box works but you could hold both up/down with a long press to enter ‘select preset mode’ … and then up/down between 15 presets
But I guess I’m already adding feature requests etc … the idea of presets isn’t new .
I’d also want tempo sync but with no midi it’s tricky
MFX pedal reminds me of this and you get midi control too. Warp looks more fun to use though.
The HX One still feels a better deal imo. Way more fxs, presets, midi, tuner… Maybe the only benefit I can see on the soma is the knobs look more fun to play with, but idk if it’s worth that much extra cash.
if we end up getting some presets I hope it’s more than 15, does preset data take up that much space I’d like some tripple digit slots for fx, especially if they’re stackable and an intelligent randomizer too… I’d pay for it.
It’s a nobrainer for me. Unless all other fx on it sound like trash. The ones i heard sound very good and i really like simple UI’s.
leaning this way too
To be fair, I don’t want to judge it for what I’d like it to be, but for what it offers. I like the simplicity, I like the effects that have been demoed so far, it’s a nice-looking piece of gear. Considering that, I think that if it were a tad cheaper, I’d get it just because
Come on man, this is Elektronauts.
That’s exactly what we do here.
All day.
I thought politics were off the cards in here?
2,000 post long threads filled with impossibly fanciful and poorly thought out feature requests, is the bedrock Elektronauts was built on
if it ain’t broke I Request that you don’t fix it 
If Discord allowed signature lines like some forums do I would be so tempted to add this quote (with citation) to mine…
HX stomp is only like $50 more. Up to 8 fx in 2 parallel chains, 2 more ins and outs, MIDI, and presets. But you need to dial in your own sounds, no CV (well 2 exp inputs), and I get that people still have negative associations w line 6 and it’s more guitar player oriented on the surface. This is more like plug in some random cvs and let it mangle the output of your modular in unpredictable ways.
Gonna be a downer on this one and say I kind of don’t see the point of it.
It does a lot, but if you can only use one effect at a time then all of that is a bit wasted. Imagine paying that much just to use it as a flanger.
Better off buying a Zoom MultiStomp for a fraction of the price, at least then you can stack 3+ effects.
Would have made more sense to me if it was a sort of soma flavoured Oto Boum or Analog Heat.
Yeah, but why would you buy it to use it only as a flanger?
And maybe the quality or “sound” is better than a zoom multistomp?
I mean has Zoom brought out a Pulsar-24?
How do you know it’s not as flavourful as a Boum?
Spin chip, I’m guessing (?)
hmmm… 500+ euro plugin in a box… it has cool algos for sure but I feel the compressor bit is a bit of a clickbait?
Dynamic effects and filters — compressors
is actually a (almost) one knob pump compressor
- PUMP
An extreme compressor, pumping up a complete mix or a group of channels.
no way you could objectively compare it to boum or other actual compressors, no threshold, no release, no ratio, sounds like its an fx not a bus processing feature.
also, am I missing something or the CV mix panel sounds like a miss being input only? if you could route stuff into each other internally that would make it way more interesting, modulating one algo with another or using the input audio as modulation source, but it seems it’s only for external control.
and yeah, using only one algorithm at a time is kinda weird, I guess if you really like that particular algorithm and it works for something particular it’s cool but dunno if it worth 500+ euro for one fx at a time.
maybe if it was some analog circuitry for distortion/compression or had internal weird modulation routing it would sound like it’s worth more than it’s priced.
that being said, some algorithms look really appealing on paper, like the nyquist, reverb selection and the multiband drive… would love to hear more creative demos from this box.
Because that’s one of the effects it has.
I guess my point is if you have this there in your setup are you really ever using that setting over the others, and if you are, then you’re wasting the gear. It’s not that you might only ever use it as a flanger, it’s more why would you use it as a flanger, ever?
It may be as flavourful as a Boum but a Boum has a simultaneously available distortion, filter and compressor, you don’t have to pick which one you use.
And yea maybe it sounds better than a MultiStomp (although they punch way above their weight…) - but if what you want is multi FX then it’s much more limited.
It reminds of the FX Aid. When I had one I had 8 banks of various effects, probably also a flanger - but 9/10 I used it as an end of chain reverb. I quickly realised that I just needed a reverb module.
Still don’t understand why no one has made a cheap digital multi-effects unit in a desktop form factor, with a couple of inputs and a screen and a few encoders.
Basically a MS-70CDR but not in a shitty cramped pedal
There’s oddities like this from SOMA or the NTS-3 but for people going DAWless your choices are limited
