The rotary effect always sounds very cool when changing speeds. Can the expression pedal be set up to control this?
Thanks,
RC
The rotary effect always sounds very cool when changing speeds. Can the expression pedal be set up to control this?
Thanks,
RC
Right now the answer is no. This is kind of a combination of the request to be able to set rotary speeds other than "Fast" and "Slow" and the request to have rig-by-rig control of any parameter using the expression pedal.
Right now the answer is no. This is kind of a combination of the request to be able to set rotary speeds other than "Fast" and "Slow" and the request to have rig-by-rig control of any parameter using the expression pedal.
Thanks Ben,
The cool thing is they keep improving them. Cool stuff
The pedal/footswitch jacks on the back of the Kemper may allow you to use a single or dual footswitch to control Rotary speed.
Or, A MIDI controller could be used to switch the Rotary Speed with cc# 33.
The speed of the Rotary Speaker effect isn't a continuous parameter, which you could control using a pedal. Instead you can simply switch between slow and fast and the algorithm is accelerating or slowing down over a fixed time period of a few seconds. Leslies work the same way.
You can switch between slow/fast either with a mono switch directly connected or via MIDI Control Change #33.
Burkhard , I agree about the ramp up and brake speed on a Leslie, but I,m not hearing this on my KPA. I'm only hearing fast or slow
Burkhard , I agree about the ramp up and brake speed on a Leslie, but I,m not hearing this on my KPA. I'm only hearing fast or slow
I can hear it
I always wished someone would make a digital rotary speaker effect with a bpm syncd speed effect. Why not bend the boarders when you can
... accelerating or slowing down over a fixed time period of a few seconds. Leslies work the same way.
Not 100% true because Leslies have been shipped or modded with different motors and/or transmission gear wheels. So there had always been options to "adjust" the acceleration and slow down times.
I would like to see some more options to adjust it in the Profiler as well.
Cheers,
Martin
The Yamaha RA200 has continuously adjustable speed as well (and 3 separate rotating top horns, but I doubt that's within the KPA's current capabilities):
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I think Roland really nailed the Rotary simulation with the RT-20, a great set of parameters.
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... Rotary simulation with the RT-20, a great set of parameters
Yeah, these parameters would be great to have!
+1google on this. It would be awesome to control these speed changes., aspecially rampup and brake speeds
Have that Boss Rotary , sound is huge but again I'd ask if were all now expecting too much from the KPA? The Amp profiling feature sounds amazing and I'm happy with that...I don't think we should turn a great profiler into an effects rack at the expense of its core function due to processing limitations.....just my feeling on it
The Amp profiling feature sounds amazing and I'm happy with that
While I agree with the better part of your post, I have to disagree in this specific case.
A Leslie basically IS an Amp and the rotary speaker is an integral part of this amp's hardware. Not just an added electronic gimmick.
If we realized every single deep parameter that is requested by the community, you would hate the Profiler due to its complexity. For sure.
About beat sync of the rotary speaker: the specific sound of it is mainly based on the asynchronous speed of the drum and horn (low and high speaker). If it was beat synced, what would happen to the sound?
Talking about parameters again: many parameter wishes are simply derived from the competition. No idea beyond that?
No company has ever made a complete implementation of a fully configurable rotary speaker.
Here are the parameters that are crucial:
Horn low speed
Horn high speed
Horn acceleration time
Horn acceleration curve
Horn brake time
Horn brake curve
Drum low speed
Drum high speed
Drum acceleration time
Drum acceleration curve
Drum brake time
Drum brake curve
Horn diffusor on/off
Horn diameter
Drum diameter
Cabinet dimensions
Horn direct/reflection ratio
Drum direct/reflection ratio
Crossover filter frequency
Crossover filter leakage
Horn microphone distance
Horn microphone choice
Horn microphone eq
Horn microphone stereo angle
Horn microphone crosstalk from drum
Drum microphone distance
Drum microphone choice
Drum microphone eq
Drum microphone angle
Drum microphone crosstalk from horn
This is more than 50 parameters that are far from being esoteric.
This all has been taken into account in our rotary speaker effect.
Most of these parameters are easy and obvious to those that are into the sound of rotary speakers.
Most of the "unknown" parameters have a much higher sonic impact than the known "deep" parameters of competing simulations.
Please don't ask me for an effect with 50 adjustable parameters
There's lots of space between your exaggerated list of potential parameters and the pretty simple request for adjustable rotary speed and acceleration/brake time.
Agreed, if I could at least set the horn speed, I'd be satisfied.
Wow, I didn't know it would be that complicated to have the speed adjustable on the roto because when I switch from slow to fast in the settings it sounds fantastic as it is.
It was just a thought, I can live without it.
About beat sync of the rotary speaker: the specific sound of it is mainly based on the asynchronous speed of the drum and horn (low and high speaker). If it was beat synced, what would happen to the sound?
I guess the effect would cancel out, so I can see your point here.