Wish: More Pedals with Digital Audio I/O

[laxu]

They cant even agree on top or side mounted inputs.

Pickup manufacturers can't even agree on color codes for their pickup wires. If they can't agree on such a simple thing, there's really no hope for cross-pedal compatibility.

 

[paisleywookiee]

With the VP4 and FM9, can you send out the SPDIF, and return to the SPDIF, to use it as an effects loop for the VP4? I know with the FM3, you can only run out, since the FM3 doesn't have an SPDIF input.

 

[LP59]

What kind of responses did you get? Were they simply not interested because they were afraid their userbase would not understand that you need a box like that for the pedals to work?

I wonder about that too. It would be a little more complicated than analog, but it wouldn't be much different than power supplies, and there has been some degree of standardization on those. I suppose one problem might be integrating analog pedals into a SPDIF rig like that.

 

[grafter.puzzler]

I wonder about that too. It would be a little more complicated than analog, but it wouldn't be much different than power supplies, and there has been some degree of standardization on those. I suppose one problem might be integrating analog pedals into a SPDIF rig like that.

I imagine it would be kind of a reluctant purchase for a lot of people. Power supplies aren’t the most fun thing to buy. You just got all these nice pedals and now you have to drop another 200 on a power supply? I imagine people would have similar reactions to this kind of box.

That’s why I think a wireless unit would be a good way to sell this idea. People love wireless, and it necessarily has to be the first thing in the signal chain, and if it’s a digital wireless unity, then that might as well be the AD conversion hub.

So @FractalAudio, maybe instead you can get the ball rolling with this idea by making a super cool pedalboard wireless unit that has spdif

 

[quadgear]

Each pedal would need to use the same sample rate, 44.1 versus 48k.

 

[Digital Igloo]

Each pedal would need to use the same sample rate, 44.1 versus 48k.

Unless you SRC, which adds latency.

 

[JiveTurkey]

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