i 'm seriously considering to buy an t3 pedal. read 'bout everything i could found .
still have some questions which give me doubt:
the most important is that i read 1 comment from somebody stating that with no note struck , there would still remain a , to his opinion , too loud noise . i guess he means vca leakage.
to his opnion it was especially noticable when using headphones , and on mixer. he also regarded it as a big annoyance , even suggested the necessairity of a noise filter when using the t3 for recording.
is this a problem ?
if so:
is it more pronounced then on b.e. the voyager ( lots of analogs have a very little , b.e. the a6, jp8 ) ?
can or will it be resolved ( callibration) or are we talking of hardwareproblem , are there plans to resolve it ?
please some honest info ( afcourse ) , preferably before i buy the thing.
( other questions i still have are about the correctness of the polyfonic midi output, as i need that: does it function as suppossed ?
and about the possibility to implement velocity soon: is that an important topic for the upgrade-list ?( synth’s without velocity and velocity midi-outputs are , at least a bit too basic/ out dated , to mho, mho. ))
anyway i most probably will buy one as i’m already very impressed by what i read and heard, but i would be very glad if someone could give me some info on the remaining naggings to my brain.
Hi-Z output (for Amp) is indeed noisy, at least on mine
I ran though every option and the LFO in both Midi sync’ed and internal to see what was causing the ‘buzzing’. Turns out it’s the actual frequency of the pitch. Depending on whether your patch has LO, MID, or HIGH range, the buzzing will increase in frequency. When you stomp on a pedal to sound a note, it will remain at the frequency last played. The Octave switch affects this also.
‘Polyphonic’ Midi is supported but then again, Midi is a serial protocol so all the Taurus is really doing is sending Note on/off msgs in approximate order. Certainly the sound source is not implicated so there is no worry about being stuck on Mono and no modes to alter/change, the fact that you can do chords is just a byproduct of sending Midi.
Velocity sensitive; it is already (from a Midi perspective) which means that you can send Midi to another keyboard or module from the Pedals. Note that there is also a Velocity Resolution parameter in the firmware that will let you control the granularity of the velocity value output across Midi. (helps make expressive playing possible where it would otherwise be very difficult to play consistently). For example a resolution of “4” will allow four values (32, 64, 96, 127) to be sent. Very useful and unique features. Check the manual, which is online for more details.
If you read something about that coming in a future version, that likely has to do with the Native capability for Analog sound source touch sensitivity. So any note played ‘into’ the Taurus will play at full volume. Note that pitch bend, modulation, and other Midi CC’s are remotely controllable so it would be possible to map Midi velocity to CC#7 (haven’t tried it but in theory, it should work).
I have not experienced any noise problem at all with the T3. It sounds clean and fantastic.
Haven’t read the post you refer to, so I’m not sure what issue was raised.
When the Voyager Signature was originally released, the puffy VCA problem was so bad that my Voyager sat unused for the first year until it was fixed (I had a Minimoog D to use instead). I use VCA and VCF with breath control, so when the VCF cutoff on the Voyager closed, the VCA noise was very unmusical and annoying. Since the fix it’s beautiful.
I have not tried MIDI polyphonic output on the T3 yet, so can’t help you.
As for velocity control to the internal engine, it is an absolute necessity for my purposes, but happily has not minimized the usefulness and incredible sound of the T3.
) , preferably before i buy the thing.