Source Audio C4 Synth - Neuro App Editor Deep Dive - Bass Demo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- I've been excited about digging into this one for a while! I'm a bit behind the curve, but I finally got my hands on the C4 Synth from Source Audio, and it does not disappoint. It has so much crammed into it, that it can be a bit overwhelming at times. This video is VERY long, but I intend for it to be a good overview about diving into the editor and making your own sounds! I'll leave some time stamps below to specific sections of the video. Enjoy!
Introduction - 1:45
Dry Tone - 2:48
Pitch Detector and Global Parameters - 3:20
Initialized Patch and Mono Input - 5:50
Dry Bass With Filters - 6:55
Dry Bass With Distortions - 15:30
Tremolo Knob - 19:00
Monophonic and Polyphonic Pitch Voices - 21:00
Saw, Square and Sine Oscillators - 26:00
Envelope Discussion - 33:00
FM Synthesis!!!! - 37:55
Custom Patches with Explanations - 42:35
Blade Runner Brass with Strymon Volante - 43:30
Sequencer - 45:00
Harmonizer Block - 47:45
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Bass Used: Dingwall ABZ 6 String
Strings: Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats
Rig: Mesa Boogie Subway D800 D.I. into Focusrite Scarlett 4i4
Other effects used: Strymon Volante
Fantastic! Thanks for taking the deep-dive, Zach.
THIS was the demo I wanted to see. Exceptional work 👊
Source Audio should send you some unit of choice for free for this ;-)
Source Audio, fyi: I Purchased the C4 after watching this 🙂
I notice that the natural tone of the bass loses very low frequencies when the pedal is activated, is this true?
I won't watch my 1 hour long engineering lecture, but I will watch an hour log video on generating synth sounds. This helps so much!
This video is essentially THE instruction manual for the C4 Synth if you plan at all on creating your own sounds. I have only a very basic understanding of synthesis, but thanks to Zach walking through how the signal is routed through the C4 and all the different things you can do with it, I think I have a very good starting point to get creative. Thanks!
I’ve been on the fence on this pedal - all of the demos I’ve watched seemed pretty much the same - and this was the video I needed. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate the sheer depth of this demo. Thank you!
Did you end up getting it?
that bladerunner brass w/ the volante is so beautiful, takes me all the way back to November 2019
There is literally no one better to cover all this detail than you Zach!
Amen
Well many reviews are better than one, I've been binging c4 synth pedal videos (because I want one and need to not spend money hhhh )
This video was the one that got me to take the dive and buy the pedal. Every video just shows the wild (sometimes unusable) sounds. This shows the subtlety and musicality this pedal can achieve
THIS is the BEST C4 Demo EVER!!!!!!
What you've made here is just about the best combined guide/manual/demonstration for the C4 I've seen. Super helpful, thank you!
You are a consummate professional and an elite teacher. Thank you for your selfless contributions.
Yes! This video proves you're the C4 Master! I want all these patches.
I was totally lost with this pedal, and this video really gave light to me. Thank you so much.
Zachary, I bought the C4 after watching this demo.
To help manage all the patches I created and to make them easily accessible at gigs, I also bought and hooked up the Disaster Area DMC Micro controller.
That, along with my phone running the Neuro app into the Input 2, covers everything I need in terms of being able to quickly access patches.
I've also started playing a lot more with the synthesisers in Logic because I now have a better understanding how they work thanks to your explanations.
However, I really started to realise the power and versatility of the C4 when I was looking at many of the top-notch synths and realised that they were sadly lacking some of the features I was becoming accustomed to with the C4.
Thanks so much for taking the time to go through this - believe me, you have changed the way I play - for the better!
Best wishes for 2021!
That was well done and very helpful. The C4 is quite a challenge to get up to speed on and this really gave me what I needed. Cheers!
My mind was blown about five times holy crap!!!
Thanks for this deep dive. I'd like to start using this with my Ric-o-Sound and run in stereo, but it's been very confounding so far.
That's the only video I needed to see about the c4 pedal. Great job!
Thank you so much for taking the time to dig into to this. You're a great teacher and a gifted musician.
So excited to get my C4 in 2 days!
I've spent somewhat over an hour with the first 20 minutes of this video, life changing stuff! Thanks so much for this awesome explainer (so far) :)
This is extremely helpful, i actually understand what some of the synth controls are now, before i was pretty much clueless thanks!
Incredible review. Getting mine today and this will definitely help me dive in. Thank you!
Thank you so much for making this video!So many demos for this pedal are afraid to dig deep. So much great information here.
Just bought one of these this week. Glad I found this video as that software was very intimidating to look at, but you have broken it all down perfectly
Wow I actually wish this video was longer.
Me too!
That floating thumb/ “closed hand” technique is stellar. A very classical PIMA kinda hybrid picking look.
Had my C4 for many months now and not really had a proper chance to get to grips with it. This video is sooooo helpful Zach and has inspired me to get grooving. Thank you :)
I was so lost. Thanks for leading me into the light... Super stocked off this pedal
Thanks Zach. When I launched the Neuro App Editor for the first time I was immediately overwhelmed. This video has really helped me find my way around and understand the functionality of the pedal better. Very well explained. Great video! 👍
Really Awesome demo!! Thanks so much for the detail and clear explanantions. C4 ordered 😀
the best video I know about the C4. Thanks
I've already learned more in the first 3 minutes than other videos !!
Wow, wow and wow! Soo informative, thanks man. I have a headache now, but a good one!
I would like this guy to explain me quantum physics, he obviously has talent in explaining things very clearly.
Awesome demo Zach....takenbaway all of the mystery surrounding the app and I now feel comfortable experimenting 👍
i love this pedal so much very nice you are going in depth with it one day i shall get it and look to your video for reference
Awesome job, as always.
Thank you SO MUCH for taking time to share your knowledge and tips.
Take care.
Behind what curve? I am just now beginning to use my COVID time to look into playing my Jazz again. And, yes, the C4 sounds great! I like that you pick things to play that make the most of how the C4 patches sound, Good job!. Well done, Zachary!
Great video - I really appreciate the in depth review as I'm in the process of getting one of these pedals now. I'm so looking forward to it and learned it can do much more than I originally realized.
Dude... I had watched a majority of this video before, but I somehow forgot the envelope phaser setting you came up with. That's amazing!
This is the video I needed. Thank you.
Great deep dive !!! Brillant video thanks you
Zach - your demos are always enthralling - but just want to give you a shout out to your playing - you're sounding great with or without pedals dude... keep it up
Thanks for doing this. I have a Mothership 2 and love it.I am now looking for a polyphonic synth. This may be the one.
THANKS. I was really needing this. The company hardly tries to help the user understand all of this.
Already enjoying the pedal so much more now!!!! This youtube link should come default with the pedal!
Amazing review, it totally
helped me expand everything I had managed to understand about my c4. Thanks!! Greetings from Costa Rica
Amazing video! I've already saved it and I'm sure I'll be coming back to specific bits as I dive deeper into what this pedal can do.
You’re making it very hard for me not to buy this 😅
I love those sounds that are very much the same sound as the SNES and NES can generate
sooooooo friggin stoked on this video . thank you dude !! fo real.
Thanks for all the details. Seing this I almost regret buying the Spectrum Intelligent Filter when this has so much more to offer. But then even the Spectrum can generate some lovely synthy sounds. But the c4 is really from another world.
As a bassist, I don't care much about pedals to begin with (exc for compression & DI). I started considering an envelope filter though... and holy cow! I am so glad I spent the extra $50 over the Spectrum to get this beast! It can do everything I've ever daydreamed about, and then some
Finally someone with a sense of sound design
1:00 daaaaaaaammmmmnnnnnnnn!
Super instructional vid. Thanks!
Thanks a lot for all those informations... I knew it was a good pedal but you give me more keys to understand
You may be a bit behind the curve, but this video is brillaint. i need to watch all this again and again! haha, feels like you need a degree in synths to start with..
Great !!!! You made my buy one !!!!
Hi Zach! Nice review here, very detailed and helpful just as always...
Such a great video, thank you!! I’m doing my homework before the pedal arrives! Haha Thanks for the tips on the OC2 settings as well .. love mine on my guitar. 🤘🏼
This pedal was sent from the Synth Gods themselves. We are now worthy!!!
Figured out that the iPhone interface its similar but u have to click on this lightning ⚡️ bolt at the bottom so the changes take effect…don’t give up…It’s worth it!
Such a sick demo
This is excellent. Are your patches available in the community?
Got my C4 and this vid is my reference to learn this beast. Very good work, And, Zach, I'd suppose that the flats you are using are better for tracking than roundwounds. Albeit my technique is very clean, sometimes I get nasty audio artefacts when sliding.
Amazing video man! 👊🏾
Very helpful thank you!
Super helpful thank you man.
Bravo
De grande contribuição, obrigado.
Thanks very helpful :) this pedal could replace anything. I've spend years dumping money on octave pedals, filters, synths, fuzzes/distortions. All sorted with this plus a MIDI switcher.
Would you recommend it for live shows?
Awesome video really helpful. Did the C4 made it to your board? How would you compare it against a combination of pedals eg oc2 + fmeron + xerograph etc? Keep up the great work is truly inspiring.
Fantastic video really helped me learn the pedal but only complaint is I wish you explained the sequencer more.
The future is nice
16:12 sounds kinda like fuzz I like it
Yoooooooooo! Killer video, exactly what I needed. Thanks for taking the time. Dig that dinky too Σ(ノ°▽°)ノ
any recs on a different way i should run my signal chain? :
- awol virus fuzz > polytune3/buffer > digitech ricochet > boss oc2 > Future Impact > C4 synth > mu octavider > microtron iii > ovnifx compression > darkglass microtubes b3k v2 > mu phasor > warped vinyl vibrato > H9 max+barn3 > strymon Volante > Gravitas tremolo / > Volume pedal > gamechanger plus sustain > Beatbuddy > pigtronix infinity looper > RJM tone saver buffer > aguilar tone hammer preamp/di .. ... if you see something that makes sense to change, i'd try it.
Yes! 😍👾👍
That's great, but I tried to follow along on my phone app.
And.....being that it looks so different on the Android app and nothing like your screen, and this is so complex, I couldn't even Follow along a little bit or get that Sequencer to work at all.
I tried for a WHILE, JUST to get that same first tone you got and I just could find it in the app.
Do you have to have the pedal itself set a certain way ?
Like the switch in the middle on Triangle, Circle or square ?
And the knobs a certain way ?
You don't show the pedal at all here.
The pedal did change sounds and I got a few things to change the sounds from the app, but I don't understand how they go together...
I was mostly interested in the sequencing, which you only showed one example of, but I can't even get that thing to work at all.
Maybe I should get a more simplistic pedal or something....lol
I wish I could get it to work though !!!!!
It seems amazing !!!
:-/
This entire lecture could've been easily avoided if Source Audio just adopted a classic synth style user interface. ADSR, LFO, filter controls, waveform controls etc.
43:31 Shut up and take my money!
RIGHT!!!! That's one of the presets that made me make the decision in buying one to try it with my fretless!!!!
Hell yeah!
Would source audio please hire you for walk throughs of each pedal? As well as how to use the neuro and midi controllers? Thank you
Amazing walk through video
I’ve got a somewhat unorthodox question and I’d love your take on it if willing.
I’m a long-time bassist with multi-genre experience and I’m starting a top-shelf funk band. I love the idea of being able to cover/double some of the synth lines. I already own some synths for edm production and have an HX stomp with decent synths and I’m confident I could just bring keys as well if need be, but I’d prefer not to. I’m pretty set on the C4 due to size and ability and tracking, but I’m concerned I’m not going to use it enough to justify it.
Do you have any thoughts/advoce/ examples of synth bass in use you could share?
TIA, great video!
This is really helpful, thank you! Any chance you could add some markers to the video timeline to find different parts of the video?
Hey Zach. It's been months that I've wanted to tell you how great this video is. I waited to purchase the pedal until I could see your breakdown of the software. I reference this video every time I go to make a new preset. Such a great job! Question for you that I can't find the answer to anywhere: What is a "pole" when discussing EQ? I'm imagining a type of bar graph where if I have a 4-pole low pass filter, the bottom 4 poles (each one being its own freq?) are the only bars present. Am I on the right track?
my dude, i now REALLY want one of these for my rig. thank you. speaking off basses, what is he bass you have? it is beautiful
How long have you had flats on your bass? It sounds different/better than in other videos of yours.
Also would you consider sharing your filter patches?
Hey man, great video! I'm super new to synths and effects. Do you have any of these loaded to the source community?
Have you seen the new future impact?
I bought this pedal and noticed that the natural tone of the bass that is mixed with the effect sounds a little different, without really lower frequencies, have you noticed this? I play reggae and I also need frequencies below 80hz. I wanted to mix with a synthesizer, but I can't reach these frequencies even in the natural timbre of the bass when the pedal is activated.
Anyways they have the effect for Nine Inch Nails Closer for Bass? Since I am aware that it was a Keyboard that did the bass but it has this catchy effect on synth bass. was wondering if this C4 can mimic this close as effect as possible?
Zach, I can’t find your patches on the source audio community pages.
Share some light please: I have burned a preset on the pedal. After adjusting the setting to my taste directly on the pedal I would like to save this own setting directly on the pedal without the Neuro App. Is there a shortcut to save my tweaked setting on the pedal itself???
Are you on the Neuro App?
do you have any plan to review H9 algorithm Hotsawz? will be interesting to see it from you
Coming late into the game, I have had a Meris Enzo for the last 4 years as my main synth pedal. Is it worth changing to the C4? any thought on how they compare?
Have you posted your patches yet? If so, how best do I search for them? As always, thanks for the excellent content!
@@ZacharyRizer Ha! I thought those sounded familiar. Thanks for the sounds!
Do you think the c4 is worth getting I don’t have much money but I really want a good pedal to put on my album
can you download patches that have already been created by someone. I don't think I have the patience to create them from scratch
Question for Zachary: CAn you introduce pauses into the sequencer beats? If not do you miss it? Can you introduce pauses with you playing atleast? (or does the sequence start from the beggining every time you pluck ?)
Does it do dry slow-gear or ehx attack decay type sounds?
Stop making me want all of the things!