I bought one after seeing your video and while the features like the fade and rate expression are really cool I find it really finicky as far as getting the trigger threshold set. It also doesnt work well after distortion because you literally have to stop playing to get it to retrigger and it’s really noisy before distortion. I would like it a lot more if the triggering werent so touchy. And if there were some way to set the threshold for the trigger to turn back off. I find i have to stop playing to make the trigger light turn off and it turns off kinda slowly. It’s hard to describe but I find it hard to make it do what I want it to do when I want it to do it. Your playing has to adapt to the pedal rather than the other way around and I wish there were a way to change that.
Ah yeah I kinda prefer gain after tremolo so I didn't try it before. It's definitely a pedal you have to play to a bit, and I'm kinda used to doing that. You should be able to adjust the threshold via the secondary controls. Did that not make things better?
@@GetOffset yeah, i get how everything works and I can get it to trigger ok, but the trigger or envelope or reset of the trigger, whatever it is, takes a bit too long. It takes to long for the led over the tap button to turn off so you can retrigger and start a new fade in/out cycle. It requires too much stopping and going if that makes sense. Its like it needs a control to allow you to set the threshold to end the trigger cycle as well as the one it has to start it. Maybe I just need to find a trem with an expression pedal input and do the fading the old fashioned way 😀
It relates to synth stuff, but to be completely honest I'm not totally sure so I don't want to misspeak. It doesn't surprise me that most of the pedal demos don't use them, but I know a lot of Dwarfcraft pedals had similar controls, so Aen's old videos might be a good starting point. Obviously different effects, but a similar use.
Those are control voltage (CV) patch points; they can connect to other pedals that accept CV (Chase Bliss, Meris, Red Panda among others) or to modular synthesizers. For example, I could use my modular synthesizer to generate complex, evolving low-frequency waveforms that I could plug into the "CV In" of this pedal and have that (rather than the Treminator's internal LFO) control the tremolo effect, for endless possibilities. For a pedal example, check this video where the reviewer plugs the envelope output from the Kinematic compressor into the Rate input on the Lethargy phaser. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-28m6Efk8yv0.html
The VCA input is kind of like a volume pedal. You send voltage into it to control the pedal's volume level (basically creating your own tremolo). I think the voltage sent into it gets added to the voltage created by the internal LFO. The CV In is a voltage input for controlling the LFO rate by voltage. The CV out spits out the voltage created by the pedals LFO. If you, say, also have a Dreadbox Komorebi, which has CV inputs for delay time and LFO rate and an LFO out, you could combine it with the Treminator and send CV back and forth between them. You can also buy a Korg SQ-1 CV sequencer to send CV to pedals for great stepped (or smooth) parameter changes. You can even do polymetric parameter changes with it, as it has two separate CV tracks which can have different lengths. The SQ-1 is very popular amongst pedal users. If the word voltage makes it confusing, let me try to clarify it: when you connect an expression pedal to a pedal, the expression pedal basically functions as a level/amount control between the pedal's internal voltage source and the parameter the expression pedal is supposed to control. This also means you can usually plugin a CV source into an expression pedal input, but please read the pedal's user manual before doing that. Each pedal has its own voltage spec. Some like 3.3 volts, while some are ok with 5 volts.
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