Hungary-based Panda has introduced the Future Impact v3 Bass/Guitar Synthesizer – a major update to their guitar synth pedal that adds EWI support, an expanded synth engine, a new editor, a lower price and more.
Existing users of the Future Impact can get all the new features by updating their firmware.
Here’s what’s new:
- bass, guitar and wind instrument modes
- the virtual analog sound engine is expanded now with some modular features – you can control any of the sound parameters with external midi controller or with some internal control sources,
- ADSR envelopes,
- VCO4 can act as an extra LFO,
- true simultaneous multi effects processing,
- a new PC/Mac Editor software,
- a brand new soundset of 99 patches that demonstrates all the new exciting synthesis possibilities,
- redesigned look,
- lifetime warranty,
- online patch sharing service
Here’s a video intro to each of the 99 new patches:
Pricing and Availability
The Future Impact v3 Bass/Guitar Synthesizer is available now, with a new lower price of 359 EUR (incl. VAT and shipping worldwide) and an introductory sale price of 299 EUR through 15th December.
Does it do all the pitches are just notes – will it track a theremin like the EH pedals do?
it has different modes to snap to scales or not, IIRC. I seem to remember it tracking fretless really well