u/dumpsterac1d

Playing my map after 1,100 additions added over the last year, I'm already seeing locations with new coverage which nullifies their inclusion in the list. Long story short - making a map where there's as little meta as possible to help teach people how to vibe guess, no road lines, no bollards, no language, no other vehicles, no poles. While also being interesting locations. Some coverage has updated to include other vehicles, and in some cases, locations are choosing old/shitty coverage based off location data (must be adjacent to bad coverage or something?)

I know there's CSV sites to help audit and I've used them in the past, but the majority of the map creation has just been on the geoguessr site, so I'm hoping to use that if possible

I knew going into it it would be easy to develop a kind of addiction to pedals, and I've resisted as much as I could! But they're just so good, its a hugely creative space that small devs can get in there and make a product thats interesting, and there are tons of other (non synth) musicians dumping pedals into the used market so, in general they are cheapo.

I've paired down to 3 currently (i have rack effects to supplement)

Strymon Big Sky

Eventide Time Factor

Behringer Bi Phase

My favorite distortion effect is just grinding the shit out of an input of a cheap soundcraft mixer, and I have half a mind to buy an Eventide Space and possibly ditch the Big Sky.

Just curious what kind of stuff is everyone's favorite. Do you tend to get unique good sounding things or go for robust, classic effects? I wanna expand but there's too much.

Maybe quick, maybe complicated Keylab Mk3 question. My studio is full of garbage synths that I like a lot, and use multitimbrally a lot. I scanned the manuals, read specs, searched online for some answers, but apart from saying "yes there are user presets" and "they do what you want generally", there's an unknown quantity I cant really grasp at which is how usable the preset and cc mapping/naming system is for a task this large.

Below is a list of gear I would need to config it for, with CC capable gear starred and multitimbral synths noted:

TX81Z (mt)

JX-10 (mt)

Emax (mt)

Ex8000

606

303

Blofeld* (mt)

01/W* (mt)

Wavestation a/d* (mt)

M1* (mt)

Super bass station*

Some effects racks*

I guess the question is, are there enough presets available to address these easily, once a ton of work is done mapping everything? Do people set up 1 preset per timbre or one perset per synth generally? I usually fart around finding sounds in single modes and then set up multis when I'm ready to record. Is there a piece of software that makes this easy? I do see the software that links with VSTs, but I don't see any real settings thing unless I missed it in the manual. Do I have to do this on the device by hand, naming CCs? Is there a bunch of premade presets floating around I can just dump on the device that would have this already programmed? And finally, would you bother, personally? I was stoked to finally use CCs for the synths that use them, generally it's something random I sequence when I want, but editing on a controller sounds nice given all these are racks.

Thanks chiefs

Sory for the long post.