Re: Im bored of my TC Fireworx! HELP!

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Mark,

it's kinda hard to tell what to recommend because it doesn't immediately 
become clear what exactly you're after...
My inspirational story: I don't like it that much, because taking into 
account what you could do with it with all the complex routing and 
modulation possibilities, it just lacks processing power big time.
Apart from that, I already said what makes it so great (and in that 
respect, it's only paralleled by the Eventide Orville/H8000 and the 
Kurzweil KSP8/KDFX thingies), and that's flexibility, especially with 
regard to modulation.

There's a big downside, and that is that it takes a huge amount of 
thinking in terms of signal processing involved to implement what you're 
after. At least that's a downside for people who don't have their brains 
wired in the s- or z-transformed domain.

There's also a big plus, and that is price/performance ratio. While this 
thing originally listed (like eight years ago, when it was introduced) 
at around €2k (and with that only about 10% below an Eventide Eclipse), 
prices have dropped to €750 (while the Eclipse stayed the same); prepal 
lists it at around €550, and some ebay auctions fetched between €380 and 
€440. And with that, it's in the same price range as an Eventide 
Timefactor, and I personally would prefer the TC to the Timefactor, 
simply because of greater flexibility.

Some of the good sides are details: the FireworX works very well with 
delays synced to an unstable MIDI clock (like with Repeater pre-OS2) and 
in that regard is superior to all my other thingies. I also like the 
ability to display the presets in a list (something that makes sense for 
a multi-100-patches device). And the digital distortion is beautifully 
ugly.

Ah yes, and the moduulation possibilities - we already had this 
discussion when Bill asked for a ducked delay.

It's also great to do emulations of everybody's favourite analogue 
boxes: I have a great MAM RS3, a ZVEX Ooh Wah and a Space Echo emulation 
which I like a lot. Plus a super-goes-to-eleven-harcore distortion that 
is very dynamic to your playing (i.e. the output volume is modulated by 
your input signal's amplitude).

Yes, there's a lot of things you can do with it. And unless you're in a 
situation where you need to sell it to finance something else which you 
need more, I'd suggest you keep it. Current prices are considerably 
below its value imo.

Rainer
>
>     After about 6 months with a TC Fireworx... Im sad to say that
>     we΄re not really getting along.. and Im thinking of selling.
>     I dont know, i think the vast amount of sounds possible and
>     available is a bit too much for me!! I upgraded to version 2.0 and
>     all that did was give me more and more.. Ive hardly EVER sat down
>     and made my own sounds.. Even tho that is why I got it. I bought
>     it in an attempt to remove things from the floor (namely a Space
>     Station and the bitrman.. cos of having weird PSU) and it more
>     than made up for is.. but actually all I ever seem to use is a
>     lovely reverb patch, with just the right amount of compression..
>     lovely... but expensive!!!
>
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