Strymon MultiSwitch anounced

[selfdestroyer]

Anyone else get this email about this MultiSwitch? Look pretty cool and if I hit a HUGE wall of fail with my MIDI pedal project I may get this to tie me over. Secretly that's not true as I really want to MIDI functions for my other pedals also but this is still a cool deal.
http://www.strymon.net/multiswitch/

Cody

[brand0nized]

Man if they made the midi plug on the side and color options to match the pedals, that'd be sick

[jkokura]

I believe its TRS, not midi.

Jacob

[irmcdermott]

Yeah. I love Strymon, but I'm really underwhelmed with this. They seem to be late to their own party., and not really making an entrance. BUT, I guess for the price, if it does what you want, then it's great.

[selfdestroyer]

I agree, they should have went the MIDI route for sure. It would have covered more ground and since their 3 flagship pedals support MIDI.. Maybe its on the docket for one in the future.

If you are just a Timeline user and you need all the looper controls at your feet, this may be the cheapest option (not sure of price yet but it really cant be "that much" for just a TRS controller) but I guess we will see.

Cody

[playpunk]

Won't this just be a firmware update and 3 momentary switches?


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[LaceSensor]

I'll clone it when the, I assume ridiculously simple, schem is revealed lol

[chromesphere]

Well, their tap temp switch is $50 bucks so...3 switches...$150?

Funny thing about that tap switch actually.  They had a public youtube playlist for bluesky videos a while ago, people submit their videos to the playlist.  I emailed them and said I had made a video on how to build a tap tempo switch that works with the bluesky...little brazen of me I guess.  The guy said (cant remember his name, wasn't Pete).  "That's great for sure we'll add it!".  He didn't add it.  Which is understandable I guess.  Coincidentally, when you google search "Strymon Tap Tempo", my video comes up toward the top of the list. Lets here it for making enemies unintentionally...

[micromegas]

Eventide Timefactor's switch is something like this (Diodes = 1n4001/1n4007/1n4148/etc):


Without power supply, I can imagine Strymon's to be very, very similar (a friend of mine has a Timefactor, maybe he is willing to try )


EDIT: Here's Paul Marossy's schematic (I love that guy, just a pity I knew about him late):

[LaceSensor]

Strymons uses resistors apparently, it's mentioned over at tgp

[selfdestroyer]

Strymons uses resistors apparently, it's mentioned over at tgp

Thats what I was thinking also, been awhile since I built a Fav switch. Isnt it just looking for a voltage range from a 5V (or what ever it is) source to determine what switch was pressed?

Cody

[micromegas]

Strymons uses resistors apparently, it's mentioned over at tgp

This is what Gregg Stock(I assume, as he is the "analog guy" at strymon) has to say about this:

"
The expression pedal input is connected to an A/D converter (the same one that reads the pot values). The jack is TRS with the signal on the tip, the ring is connected to 5V through a 1k resistor and the sleeve is the return (ground).

When a pot (expression pedal) is hooked up, the A/D converter will see the full range of analog values from 0-5V. With a switch, it will only see the extreme values (0 or 5). This allows us to provide a remote tap or expression pedal input.

Enter the MultiSwitch. In order to decode three different switches, we updated the software to read three different analog values in MultiSwitch mode.

Anyone wanting to make a DIY MultiSwitch needs to tie the Tip and Ring together and connect the following resistors in series with normally open switches.

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