Absolutely insane LVX demo! Wow! Your creativity soars somewhere out there amongst planets and stars, while the rest of us are stuck on planet earth. Well done!
I couldn't count how many LVX videos I've watched and this is hands down the best. Meris owes you a commission because this video is what really convinced me to buy it. You rule!
thanks ☺️ I would prefer bugfixing (like, fixing LFO timing and MIDI Clock sync issues, making the “HPF” a real HPF rather than a shelving EQ, fixing analog dry path issues) and some added basic features (LFO/sequencer restart via MIDI command and via pressing tap tempo footswitch once; looper undo/redo; looper punch in/out smoothing; enable/disable MIDI clock per preset) over a commission 😎
Treating myself to one tommorow been promising I’d get one since it dropped. Now hearing it can do all this glitch stuff the excitements doubled. Nicely done demo brother, really flexed the lvx’s muscle 💪
100% best LVX video AND THANKS from the presets. i have been fumbeling with this thing for the time i got it and your presets have helped me so so much!!!!!!!
Thanks so much for putting your settings on Patch Storage, it's been awesome to explore how you put some of these settings together. Excellent video for demonstrating just how verstatile the LVX really is, so much more than just a delay.
@@fakejauber just uploaded two of them to patchstorage.com/author/theguacamolexplosion/ ... unfortunately, I accidentally overwrote the “Sauna” one. I think it would be a really helpful feature for future LVX firmwares to display the name of the preset you are about to overwrite, when saving a preset to a different location ...
thanks! You can download several of my presets from the video for free at patchstorage.com/author/theguacamolexplosion/ - maybe some of them can serve as a starting point for explorations 🙂
Your playing is very tasty and clean. Nice to see someone made justice to this and erased from the phase of earth the idea that this is for “ambient & experimental” purposes. You made it sound like an extension of your guitar.
If you ever get time, it would be great to see a video showing step by step how you dial in a couple of the presets. I like hearing how each new layer/effect affects the sound until the end product. Thanks for your efforts here!
Awesome demo. Can’t wait to try it on mine😊 I was recently experimenting with using some of the effects without delay at all. This really helps understand what is possible!
This is incredible content! Like, really good. The XX and Kings of Leon sections were sick. I had pretty much talked myself out of the LVX because I have an embarrassment of riches concerning delays. Now I'm not so sure. Thanks for the work on this!
Saw Kings of Leon perform “Closer” live at Lollapalooza Berlin 2019, and the XX doing “Angels” twice, at Sziget 2012 and Lollapalooza Berlin 2017 ... both fantastic live bands
Absolutely incredible! Going to hunt down some of these patches. One i haven't been able to find is "Luminate", have you uploaded that one yet? It's gorgeous!
thx ... nope, Luminate is not uploaded yet. I plan to upload a second bunch of patches soon. “Luminate” was my attempt of recreating a reverb-ish patch of the same name which I programmed on my Strymon Timeline, using Pattern Delay with pattern #15 (which is basically a multitap delay with repeats alternating hard left and hard right panned), some smear (diffusion), and High-pass filtering. You can hear the Strymon version in action e.g. in many parts of my Sonuus Voluum demo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w46XLNQA5AI.html
not all, but many (36). At least two patches got lost for good when I accidentally overwrote them ... unfortunately, LVX will not show the name of the previously saved preset at the storing destination ... patchstorage.com/author/theguacamolexplosion/
Really awesome demo and sounds, seriously creative! Any chance you'd upload some of these patches to the LVX Patchstorage page where people share what they've made? These are some of the best I've heard!
@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Good stuff. Thanks for uploading these on Patchstorage. Any chance you can upload #9: LFO-controlled sample rate crushing? Or is this pretty easy to recreate?
@@foxendeavor added it: patchstorage.com/author/theguacamolexplosion/ ... still, pretty easy to recreate, to. Main thing is to set PREAMP to Type=Bitcrusher, full bits, full samplerate, then route one of the LVX LFOs, set very slow with triangle wave, to modify sample rate.
This is is a truly awesome demo. Congratulations! I’ve spent a long time trying to convince myself I don’t “need” this pedal. And this has undone that!! And will be downloading your patches! Thanks! Question; as a guitarist who has got into synths and groove boxes in recent years. I have the rytm mkii and am trying to learn/ingrain the workflow - how have you achieved that so perfectly? And are the beats you have featured here been self made and sequenced or have you downloaded/ bought them, if so from where?
Thx; I bought the RYTM like two and a half years ago and spend a lot of time learning its functionality inside out. I started my journey into sequencing back in 1986 with a Roland 606, and then went Cubase 1990/91 on an Atari ST; so I’ve had some time to learn how to recreate what I hear using various machines. Every RYTM beat in this vid is self-made, using partly internal sounds (bass is the RYTM Dual VCO), partly drum samples from the Producers Choice Organic Drum Pack (which I bought; all single drum hits, no loops used), plus a few samples of classic drum machines that can be downloaded for free on the internet.
Thanks for the response. That is truly impressive, you are one of the few I see on RU-vid that has utilised the power of RYTM outside of dance and techno and done so incredibly tastefully and with great thought and attention to detail. And watching your Digitone video, this is also absolutely incredible - top notch. Amazing! @@TheGuacamoleXplosion
thanks! So far, I only have 36 presets up separately on patchstorage.com/author/theguacamolexplosion/ ... but I might do a zip archive version with all, too ...
great video and super tasty playing on that outro too, really enjoyed that. I'm thinking of replacing my SA Collider and Strymon Mobius with this - thoughts?
Thanks! Collider does reverb and delay simultaneously. LVX cannot do that. Well, you can get some in-between-delay-and-verb sounds with the Polymoon engine, but not really delay + reverb. About the Möbius, depends on how you are using it ... I could get everything I need modulation-wise from the LVX, so I would keep the Collider and ditch the Möbius for the LVX. But as always, YMMV.
Damn you!!! I am jk, its a nice pedal. Have Meris updated the firmware at all since release? I know to only buy based on what it currently does, but still curious. Honestly, Meris was closer to a multi effect here than it was a delay.
thx! I'm using the “Organic Drum Pack” from theproducerschoice.com, but also the on-board analogue machines and some other samples, like free drum machine samples from the web and some own samples
thx! No, didn’t have the chance to play the X yet. Pretty sure I would be less interested in the X, though ... you can get decent verb sounds out of the LVX, and for additional my reverb needs, I would go with something smaller, like my H9, or possibly something like the Ventris.
@@TheGuacamoleXplosion I bought the MercuryX, but I'm thinking I should've bought the LVX and something smaller for reverb like you're describing. I actually checked your channel hoping you had a deep dive or comparison of the two
There is not a single un-edited factory preset in this video. I made most of the patches starting rather from scratch; a few are also factory presets with some significant changes. There’s one factory preset that I used with only minor changes, that’s “DISPOSITION”: I made it faster to match the BPMs of the original song (Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap) and gave it more stereo width.
Traded my cba thermae for lvx last night( kept in limbo iv though) does the speed of modulation fx go into very fast rates ( ring mod type?). Can i assign one input and one output to becone send and return to use as an fx loop? Thank you.
Other than e.g. Strymon Timeline, Eventide H9 and Line 6 HX One, the LVX doesn’t have an FX Loop mode where the right input & right output are being re-purposed as loop return & send. On the Timeline, the FX Loop is a feedback loop (while on H9 & HX One, it is only a way to use the pedal in two different places in the signal path); most of the things that you can do with that loop - like, put a filter/eq pedal or a modulation pedal inside - are possible already with onboard modules on the LVX, so me, I don’t really miss that functionality. I haven't checked how fast the two on-board LFOs of the LVX can go. But there is a dedicated Ring Mod effect in the modulation section.
@TheGuacamoleXplosion thanks. Still it would be good to be able to add my own analogue filters and ring modulators just in the wet signal but I'm sure I ll find ways to get sounds I like with the lvx
Well ... I was semi-happy with the Timeline for 12 years, now I finally found something to replace it 😀 But honestly, there is a few things Timeline still does better than the LVX in firmware 1.1: 1. It has looper undo/redo (when used with an external MIDI controller). LVX doesn’t have that (yet). 2. Timeline looper has smoothing of in/out points: There’s an ultra-short fade in when you're starting a recording or starting overdub, and an ultra-short fade out when you’re exiting overdub or stopping the looper. LVX doesn't have that (yet), hence you can get quite some clicky noises. 3. Timeline has a MIDI CC for phase reset, which, I believe, resets the internal modulation LFO. I never used it, since resetting the Timeline LFO is not very interesting. Resetting the LVX LFO when in square mode, or even more resetting the LVX sequencer, would be very interesting though; like, sync rhythmic stuff to an external beat (like drummer, or drum machine); but alas, not available. Yet. 4. Timeline has two more knobs, thus quicker direct access to more fixed parameters (LVX on the other hand gives you two user-definable knobs per preset, which I prefer). 5. Timeline has a nice ducking delay. LVX envelop modifier could in theory do ducking, but it is buggy, doesn't really work for ducking (yet), I tried hard. 6. Timeline ICE delay has a very nice and specific sound. You can get close with the LVX in POLY mode with octave up & down modulation, or by putting a Pitch module in the delay’s feedback loop, but you cannot fully replicate ICE (which as I understand it doesn't work with pitch shifting, but with altered speed multiple playback of delay taps). 7. Timeline can do programmable stereo boost of up to +3dB of the full signal in the analog domain. LVX can only do unity gain on analog level (boosting with the digital Preamp emulations is possible, though). 8. Timeline will keep its analog dry path no matter whether you put the looper pre or post delay engine (which effectively equals the PRE+DRY and POST MIX positions on the LVX). When you put the Looper in PRE+DRY or POST MIX, or when you activate spillover, you will lose the analog dry path on the LVX. 9. Timeline’s current firmware allows switching sync to MIDI clock on/off per preset. Great for slapback or faux reverb presets which you don’t want to sync to any BPMs, but to remain at fixed ms values. LVX main delay engine doesn't have this option yet. 10. LVX still has some bugs. They include timing instabilities of the LFO: With certain modules active, a LFO set to quarters subdivisions will run significantly faster, or slower, than the current BPMs. Other users have reported problems when syncing the LVX to external MIDI Clock, I haven't tried that yet. 11. Timeline has 200 presets. I actually never needed more than 50. On the LVX, which has only 100 presets, I already made like 80 presets ... the LVX could actually use 200, having a much wider sonic palette than the Timeline.
What do you mean? The video is like 97% selfmade patches, not factory ones. You want more of these? Well, at some point, I will have enough new ones to make a new video. But it will take a while ... I made the patches in this vid mostly during 2 weeks of summer holidays, don’t have that much time normally 🙂
@@TheGuacamoleXplosion yeah I meant a new video once you come up with some cool patches and stuff. I should’ve been more specific lol but I loved the video! You definitely gave me some new ideas once my pedal comes in tomorrow
