Boss VF-1 Effect Processor

Not exactly.  For expression pedal or CC's, yes, you get up to 128 divisions of control if you want (0-127), but you can use a smaller source range too.  Any range that's a subset of 0-127 can be used.

Now, you can map those source divisions to any destination parameter value range you want.  Depending on the parameter and what its range is, you are free to pick any subset of that, for example: 0-1, 0-127, 32-64, 1-2000, etc.  On a parameter that suffers from audible stepping, you're going to hear the artifacts of the stepping any time the destination value changes, more or less.


Re: your flanger, that, sir, sounds very clever!  Nicely done!

--- In BossVF1@yahoogroups.com, Dustin Sedlacek <dustin.sedlacek@...> wrote:
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> for somethings I dont mind the stepping. I have a very digital approach to
> my music. Using midi CCs I can assume that the steps are in divisions of
> 128?
> 
> also in my experiments last night I discovered a "barberpole flanger" type
> of effect.
> 
> use a pitch shifter with a 100% wet signal feed a source through the vf1 set
> the pitch shit coarse setting to 0 and the fine setting to -1 or +1 now feed
> the output back into the input for an always rising or always falling flange
> type of sound. I use a matrix mixer for this, but you can build a multiplier
> fairly easily with a handful of components if you do not have a matrix
> mixer.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Ryan <rwrubleski@...> wrote:
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> > **
> >
> >
> > Yeah, sadly you're quite right about that, Chris. I haven't experimented
> > enough with expression pedal modulation, and I certainly haven't done it
> > enough to discern the rhyme or reason behind which parameters have audible
> > stepping and which ones don't. Many of them work great, and I almost forgot
> > about the stepping until I switch to one that has it, and then I cringe and
> > pout a bit...
> >
> > It sounds like you've played around a fair bit and are fairly dismayed with
> > the behaviour on the whole. Dang.
> >
> >
> > --- In BossVF1@yahoogroups.com, "gastric123" <chris@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Last comment regarding expression control over the VF-1. Nearly all of
> > the expression controlled parameters end up sounding very "stepped" and are
> > not smoothly modulated as you'd expect with analog gear or current
> > production digital effects. Not saying this makes it worthless, just that it
> > makes an audibly stepped effect which is particularly noticeable when you're
> > sweeping pitch or frequency based effects.
> > >
> > > Regardless, share some sound samples of what you end up doing with the
> > VF-1. I always feel like I'm reasonably clever with the effect programming
> > foundation, but I don't do a lot of real time control, and I certainly
> > haven't transcended the fact that "there is no spoon".
> > >
> > > Make sure you give the VF-1 software editor a try. It makes patch
> > experimentation much, much faster.
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dustin Sedlacek
> 901-828-6801
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