Fractal Audio Systems VP4 - Virtual Pedalboard

[Aleksi]

It's here! After playing with it for a while, I'm convinced they've improved the reverbs quite a bit since I sold the FM3. I could get a realllly nice Vangelis brass thing going.

None more black, it sucks in all the light:

 

[DrewJD82]

Shit, I gotta send Mark a forum invite. He’s a helluva dude and a great player to boot!

 

[SillyOctpuss]

It's here! After playing with it for a while, I'm convinced they've improved the reverbs quite a bit since I sold the FM3. I could get a realllly nice Vangelis brass thing going.

None more black, it sucks in all the light:
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Love your pedalboard switching system. A G3 for hipsters.

 

[Mongillo19]

Shit, I gotta send Mark a forum invite. He’s a helluva dude and a great player to boot!

Mark Day?

 

[Aleksi]

Love your pedalboard switching system. A G3 for hipsters.

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And another one above it that's not yet hooked up! I got the other one for free because it has problems with a few connections.

It's super handy: zero menu diving, no presets, just plug stuff into other stuff

 

[SillyOctpuss]

And another one above it that's not yet hooked up! I got the other one for free because it has problems with a few connections.

It's super handy: zero menu diving, no presets, just plug stuff into other stuff

It looks great.

 

[deadpool_25]

It's here! After playing with it for a while, I'm convinced they've improved the reverbs quite a bit since I sold the FM3. I could get a realllly nice Vangelis brass thing going.

None more black, it sucks in all the light:
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The patch bay makes this super cool and interesting. Love it.

 

[Aleksi]

The patch bay makes this super cool and interesting. Love it.

It's very useful for changing routing with multiple sources and it basically makes the whole setup modular

 

[Aleksi]

Okay, I absolutely love the quality and quantity of FX here as well as the amount of control you have over almost everything. But...

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fas pls hire a UI/UX guy. The knob ballistics are worse than HX, you don't need to treat the entire range of values equally (no one needs .02 granularity in a reverb time range of like 20-100 seconds) and the encoders could be clickable for easier navigation

 

[yek]

Okay, I absolutely love the quality and quantity of FX here as well as the amount of control you have over almost everything. But...

Spoiler

fas pls hire a UI/UX guy. The knob ballistics are worse than HX, you don't need to treat the entire range of values equally (no one needs .02 granularity in a reverb time range of like 20-100 seconds) and the encoders could be clickable for easier navigation

Turn fast for wide range, turn slow for fine control.

 

[Aleksi]

Turn fast for wide range, turn slow for fine control.

Yes, but the ballistics are terrible and unreliable and there's still no need for 50 different values between each second

 

[Orvillain]

Yes, but the ballistics are terrible and unreliable and there's still no need for 50 different values between each second

It's more of a parameter weighting issue, and I totally agree.

 

[Aleksi]

It's more of a parameter weighting issue, and I totally agree.

Well, as long as it's better than the Boss SY-300 I had where it took several hours of knob turning to go from min to max. I'm fairly tolerant of clunky usability and it's definitely not a deal breaker, but it's annoying none the less.

 

[dk_ace]

It's here! After playing with it for a while, I'm convinced they've improved the reverbs quite a bit since I sold the FM3. I could get a realllly nice Vangelis brass thing going.

None more black, it sucks in all the light:
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That’s a very cool rig. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on the effects as you spend more time with it.

D

 

[TubeStack]

Well, I just broke the midi out jack on my VP4... Found a thread about it at the Fractal forum, seems they break pretty easy.

This sucks! Anyone know if I'll have to ship it them for repair, or if they can send a part and I do it?

 

[Orvillain]

that blows.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Well, I just broke the midi out jack on my VP4... Found a thread about it at the Fractal forum, seems they break pretty easy.

This sucks! Anyone know if I'll have to ship it them for repair, or if they can send a part and I do it?

Shit that sucks dude.

 

[TubeStack]

that blows.

Shit that sucks dude.

Thanks guys. Yeah, I was moving things around for a pedal I have coming next week, was excited to have it set up for band practice. Was going to try controlling my HX One along with changing the channels on my MKVII (which I've already been doing).

I'm surprised how cheap and fragile the little plastic input rings are on the VP4. The guy at the Fractal forum said his broke after plugging stuff in/out a total of four times.

 

[sashimi]

Oh man, that thing is tiny. Is that basically headphone mini jack? 1/4” would have been ideal but they could have at least made the thing out of metal. Even the stomp has actual midi jacks.

 

[TubeStack]

Oh man, that thing is tiny. Is that basically headphone mini jack? 1/4” would have been ideal but they could have at least made the thing out of metal. Even the stomp has actual midi jacks.

Yeah, would much prefer full-size midi jacks like the Stomp, for sure. These are absolute shite.