I have a Meris Enzo for about a year now, the SY-1 for about 6 months and recently scored an SY-300 used. Hi - joining this conversation late but wanted to contribute, I have been trying out many synths and integrating them within an HX Stomp and an HX Effects environment depending on the goals. I kind of hope you're wrong because I'll be £400 poorer if you're not -) (and you notice I didn't mention them either. I suspect that's why there's not much activity on VGuitar forums too I've never given the EHX pedals much of a thought because they are relatively limited in scope and I know darn well Bill Ruppert can make absolutely anything sound amazing. But I've never been in a shop with some time to have a go at the Mel9 or the Synth9 and the like. I have downloaded and thoroughly evaluated MIDI Guitar 2 and I may well end up buying it because I don't often do odd inversions for synth sounds. I'm fairly certain of the SY assessment as I trust the contributors who report on their problems, and there are multiple reports of the quality of the sound degrading past three notes.
You know thats the paradox with the internet - huge amount of extra choice but nowhere to try anything. I am quite shocked at how well the EHX keyboard pedals track If you have a mac, you can use MainStage for your synth host, and it might even all the synth sounds you'll ever need. While it certainly doesn't count as a pedal, you can hook your laptop up to your helix and route your guitar into MIDI Guitar 2 and route your synth sounds back to the outputs on your Helix. I would expect this is the same with things like Enzo too, because were it not the whole forum would erupt! MIDI Guitar 2 is brilliant but has issues with close intervals the guitar-lead based wave shaping devices like the SY300, SY1 seem compromised above about 3 note polyphony.
#Microsynth polyphonic full#
IMO the only way to go full polyphony, real time at the moment is with a hex pickup, be that pitch to midi (Triple Play) or wave shaping (Boss GP10, Roland VG99). We have Bill Ruppert - EHX demonstrator - as a regular contributor and there are subs for pretty much every product past or present. Vguitarforums is the place to go if you want to discuss this with people who have been doing all sorts of stuff with pitch to midi, pitch to cv, wave reshaping and all other manner of weird ways of making a guitar sound like something else. (guitar synth user since Roland GR700/G707 bought from new when it was the dogs doodads) Without having a display of some sort, managing multiple presets is just too tedious, imo. I wish someone would release a multi-synth pedal in a form factor similar to the Strymon TimeLine or Boss 500 (or even 200) series. I don't know, I just feel like all these options have significant compromises and drawbacks. At least with SA, though, you'd be able to see the settings in your presets with their app. Again, you'd have the same sort of issue where it becomes something of a black box with MIDI. You have to buy SA's $99 Neuro Hub to get MIDI into it. I've not tried the C4, but it looks cool, and the samples sound good. So if you're wanting something that is organ-ish or even a fat poly synth, you'll probably find it difficult. It just doesn't give you a natural sounding attack.
The other thing I found was that in polyphonic mode, you're really confined to using it for pad and swell type sounds for the most part. It can be doable, I suppose, it you set your presets and don't want to ever change them. There's no way to see what settings are actually saved with a preset, so unless you want to do a lot of bookkeeping, using it with a MIDI rig can be difficult. With no display to even show what preset was active, it's very hard to keep track of things. Finally, the MIDI implementation was just annoying. It seemed that sometimes the space between having something usable and something completely over-the-top was very small. The controls are fairly interactive, meaning that how you adjust one control can affect what the others are doing, so sometimes what seems like a minor tweak can have a major effect. The first was that the secondary parameters aren't labeled, so I found myself constantly looking at the cheat sheet to remember what they did.
What are you hoping to accomplish as far as polyphonic synth sounds go? I had the Enzo for a little bit, and it was very cool in many ways, but I got frustrated with it in a few areas.
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