MadMaxG79
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What do you mean? As an audio interface for Mac?
Valeton GP-5
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Cactusprick
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just as an amp to drive cans and little monitors with a volume knob. doesn't sound amazing but appears as it has ok volume.
Sascha Franck
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Looked up the MIDI implementation chart, this thing should be an incredible pocket rig along with an M-VAVE Chocolate. Will get the latter somewhen anyway, guess a GP-5 almost makes up for a must-have addon.
Couldn't use it for any bigger rigs as it's not suitable to be nested with other digital devices, but I'd be fine with just the 5ms latency on its own.
Couldn't use it for any bigger rigs as it's not suitable to be nested with other digital devices, but I'd be fine with just the 5ms latency on its own.
DieSchmalle
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The thing that nobody seems to bother is the bad SNR.
Even amps with moderate gain reveal a good amount of noise. Dialing back the guitar's volume knob isn't fun with this device IMHO. The noise gate works but is mandatory and can't hide the noise when you play a crunch sound dialed back to clean. Doing the same on my HX Stomp is no problem.
For the price it's fine, just a heads up.
Even amps with moderate gain reveal a good amount of noise. Dialing back the guitar's volume knob isn't fun with this device IMHO. The noise gate works but is mandatory and can't hide the noise when you play a crunch sound dialed back to clean. Doing the same on my HX Stomp is no problem.
For the price it's fine, just a heads up.
Cactusprick
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yep it's a little handy practice tool. not meant for replacing your big boys by any means though.
Los-D
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Update on my experience so far: hit or miss mostly, but for $60 it might be a keeper as a swiss army pedal (pretty colorful tuner!), and as a backup pedal platform (takes drive pedals well enough).
NAM loading is not as good as GigFast Lite on iOS but pretty decent. I loaded one of Slamming Mofo’s xS Full MXR100 NAM capture, and paired with a Zoom MS-50(!) it does the Rockman thing really well.
NAM loading is not as good as GigFast Lite on iOS but pretty decent. I loaded one of Slamming Mofo’s xS Full MXR100 NAM capture, and paired with a Zoom MS-50(!) it does the Rockman thing really well.
Cactusprick
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yeah more hits than misses, to be fair they sound arguably better than Boss amp sims 
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JiveTurkey
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yeah more hits than misses, to be fair they sound arguably better than Boss amp sims
AlbertA
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It's one of those things that yeah It's pretty noticeable - but "what did I expect for $60 bucks" kinda things
BTW,
The reverb has runaway oscillations - you can hear annoying infinite ringing - I hope they address this at the very least - this is when in the loop of my amp).
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AlbertA
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I wouldn't update to 1.0.6 - I just did and now every time I switch a patch through the app - I lose connection and then switch in the device is inactive and I cannot switch patches with the knob either - sound processing keeps working though
Edit: I was able to downgrade back to 1.0.3.
Edit: I was able to downgrade back to 1.0.3.
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AlbertA
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Latency tests with v1.0.3 firmware.
Purple => Input
Yellow => Output
Analog Buffered Bypass mode - no latency, but phase is inverted.
DSP Bypass mode - 3.92ms
Everything bypassed - 5.37ms
Noise Gate + Snaptone, everything else disabled - 5.6ms
Snaptone + all other blocks enabled - 5.6 ms
Amp + cab + all other blocks enabled - 5.76 ms
Purple => Input
Yellow => Output
Analog Buffered Bypass mode - no latency, but phase is inverted.
DSP Bypass mode - 3.92ms
Everything bypassed - 5.37ms
Noise Gate + Snaptone, everything else disabled - 5.6ms
Snaptone + all other blocks enabled - 5.6 ms
Amp + cab + all other blocks enabled - 5.76 ms
CorrosiveMatter
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A factory reset after the upgrade fixes those issues.
AlbertA
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Right on! That fixed it.
Sascha Franck
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Thanks for reporting these. So that's more than my entire "full serial" setup of 4 complete ADDA cycles (quite some processing included).
CorrosiveMatter
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Not a huge deal but nice, the Valeton GP-5 software also runs on Mac, bit more real estate fpr blind mo fo's like me.
Los-D
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Via Bluetooth or USB?
AlbertA
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Bluetooth
USB seems to be for the "librarian"
This Valeton Suite app is the one from the App Store, running on macOS.
And this is the app downloaded from Valeton site (https://www.valeton.net/software/#138-168-wpfd-mac-gp-5-software), where you can upgrade firmware, download/upload presets, IRS and upload snaptone/NAM files.
Cactusprick
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this is great, will try out
vard
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There's this guy I found on FB in the GP-5 group, his name is René Alejandro Valladares, and he's been doing some amazing work on a GP-5 controller and a GP-5 editor for windows. I just tried out the editor, it's still a work in progress, but it worked like a charm!
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