Source Audio C4 Synth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- www.sourceaudi... The first thing we need to do is explain the big idea behind our latest project. Bob Chidlaw (Source Audio's Chief Sound Engineer), feeling inspired by his personal Eurorack modular synth rig, set out to built a powerful synthesizer machine, specifically designed to live inside the compact structure of a Source Audio One Series housing. The C4 is, for all intents and purposes, a modular synthesizer in an box.
On the surface, the C4 features a simple 4-knob interface and a choice of three guitar/bass synthesizer effects - just plug-in and submerge your instrument in a sea of swelling, buzzing, and swirling synth tones. If you want to take things to take things a bit further, we urge that you connect the C4 to our Neuro Desktop Editor (a free download for Mac and Windows) or Neuro Mobile App (a free download for iOS and Android). Inside the Neuro Editors you will find the tools to personally create your own retro-futuristic synthesizer tones. Use the C4’s collection of four parallel voices, three oscillator wave shapes, ten-plus envelope followers, twenty-plus modulating filters, distortion, tremolo, pitch shifting, intelligent harmonization, programmable sequencing and more to dial in that perfect tone. Find it all, from the classic synth tones you've always wanted to replicate to those illusive abstracts you've imagined, but never actually heard. If you're short on time and/or patience, it's very easy to find tons of great sounds - simply call up an effect from countless presets created by the Source Audio team or the growing legion of C4 users.
Did not see that Enjoy the Silence coming til the melody hit! Awesome choice
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This is the epitome of "show, don't tell.". Subscribed.
Such a great demo and you even got a shout out from Sourceaudio. Yes, the Depeche Mode was SIiiiiick !!
I got it because it covers every imaginable bass with your guitar... People don't realize what this bad boy can do...
I like how you never speak in your demos but give so much info.... really awesome love you mike
Gosh, more than a pedal demo, your DM rendition was awesome. Favorite song of all time!
was expecting to be underwhelmed, as I was with the sounds I've heard from the new Boss synth pedal, but this is really cool. Great vid as always. I always get excited when I see a new "Mike Hermans" vid in my subscriptions. I'd love to see more of your live music posted if you ever get some spare time.
This sounds good compared to the other pedals out there. An actual musical tool!
Well it's boss so it's basic beginners gear.
@@nuclearguitarfare4653 Prince used all BOSS pedals lol
Awesome video, Mike!! Thanks for checking out the C4. Love the Berlin riff (and of course Depeche Mode). Did I hear the "Christmas Vacation" theme for a split second?
Do you know if the C4 Synth can replicate the sort of polyphonic pitch shifting delays that pedals like the Meris Hedra do?
Different voices at different relative pitches and with different but complementary delays times
It's the sound of dreams.
Would this do LEGS by ZZ Top? :)
Depeche Mode intro and Pink Floyd outro = well done !
I can tell now,a pedal like this is going to get me into a lot of trouble. I can't wait to get one.
Words are very unnecessary and still I find a need to comment. Well done!!
Great demo once again Mike. It looks like this will be my 3rd source audio pedal.
This went from “pretty cool” to “I’m buying this now” at the 8:40 mark
Wow, between this and the Meris Enzo I get the feeling a lot of guitarist will be on stage being a keyboard on certain songs. I wanted to hear more with chords to hear it's polyphonic properties but this was cool. Loved the Pink Floyd setting at 8:33 lol
Yeah, Sequencing was cool. But that was already done 45-50 years ago. I just don't know.
Do you know if the C4 Synth can replicate the sort of polyphonic pitch shifting delays that Meris Hedra does?
@@ChrisSamuel1729 I haven't had a chance to play with a C4 yet so that's yet to be determined.
One of my Favorite songs starting out this demo. Reminds me of being in my early twenties and wondering if the cool girl I just met was gonna be my future wife. (She wasn't, but it felt good at the time.)
Great playing from a well versed player. Loved the Ratatat riffing 6:32
That intro cover alone got me to buy this.
Quite a versatile unit. I really like the "audio library/patch library" feature! My favorite patches have the "vocal formant" feature. That last sequencer patch sounds like it's straight out of a Pink Floyd song (can't remember the title).
That’s funny, I had the same thought! On The Run from DSOTM album. Man, I could buy this pedal for that preset alone! haha
your comment is from 2 years ago but you were thinking of "on the run" on dark side of the moon, right?
Great video.. it gives us a good idea of whats possible with this pedal.
Very cool tones!
Great pedal, and that cover is 🤌
Pretty cool pedal and great demo
I need this in my life right now.
Some great sounds going on there Mike, nice demo, cheers :)
Mike - thanks for all the great videos. Been watching them for years. So - is “Pop into the Chemist” a reference to the part in National Lampoon’s European Vacation” where Chevy Chase runs over Eric Idle on his bike?
Thanks for demoing with DM :)
and Berlin :)
Jesus how creative can you get!!! Damn. Reminder, talent not included with this pedal purchase.
One of the better videos i've seen so far and maybe because it's still too early but I feel like everything I hear with it is more geared toward bass lines and riffs etc... Like I like and want it possibly, but I feel like i can already do this stuff with my boss sy-300 and more.
First time seeing this but it looks like they need to make the preset selection more visually noticeable. Grey out the rest or a highlight color next to it.
Great demo!
I have the Boss SY1 and...it’s ok. For me it only has a few usable tones. But it serves me in that I need something that’s battery powered.
I really like this new pedal....dang!
thank you for this video!!!!! (just sounds and settings instead of a guy twisting knobs back and forth)
you had me at Depeche Mode
5:05 yeah, aight.
Honestly I like these presets much better than anything I could come up with on the Enzo. I wonder if it's the pedal or I'm doing something wrong.
King Crimson in a pedal!
Sounds great but I hate being tied to a computer for editing and patch loading. But I'll probably still buy it.
Every demo of this pedal i heard, there's an annoying hi frequency buzz going on all the time that sounds awful, is it not possible to filter the sound like a normal monosynth to get more like classic synth sounds, but with the expressivity of the guitar interface?
If I got this the first thing I'd play would be "Axel F"
2:16 reminds me of some of the sounds Joe Satriani was using for Engines of Creation.
Slow and Easy
Just got one now my board is a poly tune mini a hyper luminal a alpha omega a c4 and a male kkk bass master ovtave fuzz I just need one more gig rig power isolater a few more patch cables and the dmc micro
That pedal good be a game changer
Can it track shred without artifacts
My AxeFx 3 synths can’t
can somebody tell me if I could do fm-synthessis with using one mono input to modulate the other mono input with this thing?
Great review and thank you! :-)
I'm between buying *this* , the EHX Synth 9, or the Boss SY-1. Damn they're all so good.
If anyone replies that it depends, I would add:
I want to like to have Tron-Legacy type of synths, Blade Runner type of synths, and Cathedral Organ (much like the EHX B9) in 1 pedal. -- Plus be able to record and tweak sounds, to make my own SFX on an included software.
Maybe I'm in the wrong price range?
Gotta get one of each....I got he Source C4..just bought the SY-1!!!
Top SongChoice Respect!
Hi Mike! How would you compare this one to Meris Enzo?
The only thing polyphonic on the Meris Enzo is it does slow chords only very synthy on arpeggio and monophonic
How about the EHX Synth9?
@@mattgilbert7347 No comparison... Synth9 is severely limitted with two controls on 9 preset sounds... The C4 smokes it in every way...
superbe intro
How did you connect an expression pedal? is there a dedicated input for it? or you used the second input?
So, how do you connect the phone to the pedal? It's not bluetooth, right? Good demo, as usual.
I always have some hopes when discovering a new synth pedal.
But they almost never sound like something I would actually enjoy listening to in music.
Mostly annoying bad-taste 80's alien fun fart toy boxes ;)
This pedal has the same, just a tiny bit better than most
Same here :/
Do u never listen Ratatat or techno music? Full or sounds like this
Yeah a better choice is something like a yamaha eg guitar for 300$ Zero latency control of all the amazing sounds available on laptop libraries.
Of course thus is much more portable.
This is really cool and all but think about it 20 years down the road is there going to be computers and or mobile devices that support the software, I just don’t see that happening I mean it’s really cool and capable but I think the boss sy-1 is a better option
Do you have this cover online anywhere besides here?!?!? :) I love this!!!!
pity... no env/ filter footswitch ...
Does anybody know if this pedal can be profiled with a Kemper? So I could create sounds with the pedal in the studio and take them on stage with the Kemper (for the ease of use). Thanks! :)
Highly doubtful
Nah the Kemper wouldn’t be able to handle it. Can’t do anything with any sort of modulation or time based effects in the sound. You might be able to set this pedal to a setting that has 0 modulation and the Kemper might be able to profile that but I highly doubt you’ll be able to get anything useful.
Just do what I do! Chuck this pedal in the back of your rack and have it in the Kemper loop
I wish there was a way I could play this and bass at the same time, but I think our band would be better off if we kept looking for an actual keys/synth player. Hmm...
Can you make it sound like a nintendo NES?
any way to switch between presets without connecting to a phone or laptop? the sounds are def amazing on it!
Glad you dig the sounds. Disaster Area makes a small MIDI controller called the DMCmicro that can change MIDI presets pretty easily. Here is a tutorial video about it - th-cam.com/video/VxEGIKOU_1U/w-d-xo.html
It seems the M-Vave MS-1 does work as well and is a lot cheaper if you already have a MIDI rig and just want to make this pedal change presets with the other units.
Wow.
Is there a bit latency? 🤔
I Hear some Weather Report Licks !!
Thanks for the GAS! Lol
Good. Lord.
How does it compare to the Meris Enzo ?
But can it do hans zimmer?
How do you download presets??? I have the app and the pedal, what’s next??
Basically you need to use the 1/8" to 1/4" cable that came with the C4 Synth and run it from the headphone jack (or iPhone adapter) to INPUT 2 on the C4. Here is a video that explains the process for the iPhone (there is also a video for Android if you need it) - th-cam.com/video/vYqUgiD4fAo/w-d-xo.html
Superfly.
Is this pedal Polyfonic??
Polyphonic?
t depends on your settings. A lot of the fat, lead tones are monophonic. But you can play chords with a lot of the swells and Envelope filters....
More bass pls
Do I hear zap and Rodger
I want to!!!
Frusciante 6:25
Are all Source Audio pedals produce in China?
Can you get out of these standard sounds?
The Neuro Editor for the C4 Synth is massive - it can take you in a lot of different directions. Our friend do_noise came up with some very imaginative sounds - th-cam.com/video/29nj8aGTYL4/w-d-xo.html
Not bad, but many sounds still sounds like farts more than analog synths...
Ha ! Ha ! You're right. :-)
This isn't even polyphonic lol