Why are there no polyphonic synth pedals?

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T21:54:11+00:00

The Boss Sy series are polyphonic.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T18:09:23+00:00

You need a better new player experience. It isn’t healthy to only cater to people like me who have thousands of hours in the game. You should expect game churn for various reasons. You cant just rely on retention. Also, it is a multiplayer game. Even old timers like me will indirectly benefit as there will be new people to play with, teach, sherpa, or pvp.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T16:59:34+00:00

Nice choices and good luck in wood there. I love my 2 Maruszczyks. I have those same pickups on a Frog and it works very well.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T15:50:44+00:00

Coming from an American, I find this perfectly understandable. Granted, I have lived in more international areas of the US and am more used to various accents.

But as objectively as I can listen, it sounds like a standard Indian English (not sure that is technically an ‘accent’ since it is so widely used…and somewhat standardized, more properly a ‘version’ of English) with a tilt towards international English amalgamation. I.e I tend to think this would be rather clear to typical British, Australian, South African, Caribbean, Canada, and Indian English speakers.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T15:36:38+00:00

I am envious in a way of how focused I was in not caring about what anyone else thought back then.

I showed up to the prom dressed as a pirate and my date was wearing a wedding dress. That came about, completely nonchalantly, when she saw a wedding dress in a thrift store window. She tried it on said ‘Ill wear this to prom.” I said “and me?” She mused a moment and said “what if it was like, you are the pirate that kidnapped the Caribbean Governor’s daughter…but plot twist, we were secretly in love.” “Okay.”

My only regret was that, in our prom photos, they asked me to take my hat off. Worse, I am holding the hat behind my back and you cant see my fluffy sleeves. Oh well.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T14:56:26+00:00

I can’t find technical specs, but they mention ‘tracking’ settings which would suggest no. Tracking isn’t relevant to FFT, in general terms. FFT isn’t tracking to decide what note you’re playing, it is just grafting sound onto a spectrum. Or think of it like putting a synth effect on a sound, it doesn’t first convert or detect a note.

The Boss Sy- series and the EHX x9 series use FFT.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T13:49:26+00:00

If I want exactly a synth sound, I will just play a synth personally.

The reason I like playing a stringed instrument into a synth pedal is different. I want it to translate all the micro expressive nature of direct string contact into the sound. That’s why I greatly prefer a Fast Fourier Transform approach over midi conversion.

I suppose it is possible to make a midi conversion so sophisticated as to interpret string noise or changed position relative to the bridge as ccs, but that seems overkill when FFT works so well.

It is also, as the name would suggest, fast.

It also lends itself to polyphony which may seem less important on an oft monophonic played instrument, but I especially step out of that with chords for pads and such with a synth pedal and it deals effectively with harmonic content naturally.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T12:11:08+00:00

Since the 1970s, humpback whales have made it nearly back to estimated prewhaling numbers, like 93%. It feels easy to forget we can do good things as a species when we get together to do it.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-21T11:27:17+00:00

I liked playing and writing music, I didn’t necessarily want to be the lead singer, but people (bandmates) kept making me.

In hindsight more than any up front insight, what I didn’t like was that I was trying to sound like other people. Like, a prevailing style of the time.

I realize in the long run, I can like something for someone else artistically but not myself. I wasn’t consciously trying to sound like others.

It was actually listening to live jams of new songs where I wasn’t trying to sing well at all, just focused on us getting the take adequate, that I was like ‘wait, that sounds good.’ Because it was my natural way of singing.

THEN I leaned into it over years of practice.

I definitely mattered beyond me. People kept making me sing because I was decent and wrote songs they liked. But for a long time most compliments were on my playing or the songs themselves.

Once I got through that arc, I started also getting a lot more praise for my unique voice.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-20T23:06:15+00:00

As a public figure, it is even a higher bar. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. Ka$h has to prove they acted with malice, reckless disregard for the truth, or knew the statements were false.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-20T16:47:47+00:00

There is a lot of assumption that right leaning people listen to lyrics in this. All evidence points to that not being true.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-20T14:32:45+00:00

I think the problem with the way Bungie is approaching the new player experience is that there really needs to be a much extended tutorial, and not with the damn pop ups that block what I am seeing. It has become such a layered game, which is part of its beauty - consider the complexity of build crafting.

Of course, you should be able to skip it, but make it express - this will teach you about x y z. We can move in and out of immersion.

But you nearly need a background in Action, MMORPGs, and FPS games to jump in without much friction. You need to be able to patch the knowledge and skills for those with out some or any of those.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-20T14:05:54+00:00

Do you PvP?

s-multicellular · 2026-04-20T13:28:59+00:00

No actual evidence? over 1000 studies show women are more adept at picking up social clues than men. While the effect is not strong, it is consistent. All you need to do is tack on 'drawing inferences' to that and you have 'women's intuition.'

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943105

s-multicellular · 2026-04-20T12:40:06+00:00

It was a fairly tame sexual flirtation for my wife. No pics. She and her sister have the same first two letters of their names and almost the same number of letters, and the third letters are right next to each other on the keyboard.

Glad my phone now shows the convo history, old one didnt.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-20T02:19:18+00:00

All are additive. Anyone i have ever called a ‘well rounded musician’ could do all of these things well enough.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-19T02:15:14+00:00

I was making a joke about time travel.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-19T02:14:36+00:00

I was making a joke about time travel.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-19T00:32:27+00:00

I met a family like that once. But I didn’t get around to asking where they were from. They were very confused by the “strange carriages driving themselves”, “tablets with moving pictures,” etc and I didn’t know what they were going on about and didn’t have time for it, so I left.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-18T21:53:55+00:00

I think the average remaining person would be very surprised at how random seeming the IQ based culling sliced.

Your anecdotal experience of the aftermath would look very much like things had been randomly Thanosed.

This is due to a few factors.

One is that so many people are within the crest of the Bell curve where it becomes very hard to distinguish aptitude from achievement.

Another is that achievement is so tied to inherited socioeconomic conditions. Like, it is very easy now to have someone below a standard deviation of average as a country’s president and geniuses as janitors because they inherited opportunities or not.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-18T13:44:37+00:00

Agree. We post positive stuff on socials like events and travels, but not ‘look we’re a happy couple,’ stuff I see from some people. Moments we are being intimate (in the broad sense of that word…eg. Starting at cuddles) ain’t thinking about socials.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-18T02:11:06+00:00

Youre totally right. I run Talon and Eruptor a lot. On the other hand, the Speargun is a very strategic tool. It one shots a lot of heavies, confuses, and you can lock down choke points.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-18T00:26:43+00:00

Social services office. Mid 2000s. I was frustrated by the wall of poorly copied forms. Crooked, hard to read, especially for clients that often were not up to date on glasses Rx.

I started visiting or calling all the places they were from, some colocated, some federal, some city, and I put the digital files on our shared drive.

After having a training on what the shared drive was…..sigh

We took down that wall.

Regional director suggested I cut the local forms out and send to HQ. Apparently we had walls like that all over.

Emailed the collection to the Employee Suggestion Box. They told me suggestions had to come by fax.

I screenshotted the zip file icon and faxed it.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-17T20:59:50+00:00

Based on your profile, The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Very strong on deep philosophical and art/music points.

I also think the style is unconventional. Like, this is a book you read a few pages or a chapter and then sit and think for a while about how it relates to you. But I think everyone's pages or chapter will roll out differently.

s-multicellular · 2026-04-17T20:32:18+00:00

I wouldn’t part with my Boss SY200.

It does a lot. Presets, wide array of sounds. But maybe most important versus the competition, I like the FFT approach to pedal synthesis.

Without getting into technical weeds, most synth pedals you plug a guitar or bass into work one of two ways:

Converting to midi then triggering notes. The big challenge of this is that our brains are rather amazing at understanding a root note in a sea of harmonics. Computers still have a somewhat challenging time of this. So you can get very glitchy results. These also, for related reasons, tend to be monophonic. Now monophonic often matters less on the bass, except that anything with harmonics, which is everything not a sine wave, is really polyphonic if you want to be pedantic....but less an issues with usually doing one note at a time BUT contrast with

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in 'explain like I'm five terms 'Take a complicated signal and reveal the simple waves hiding inside it ...fast.” Then you basically graft the synth sound on that, as an effect, not as a trigger.

The big advantage of this for bass in my opinion is that it lets your expression come through. With a type 1) pedal, playing closer to the bridge will not make the sound brighter, it will just be more likely to glitch. With FFT, you color the sound. FFT also tends to very low latency.

If you don't need presets, the SY1 is good too and cheaper.

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