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Deeply inspired by the sought-after Akai Deep Impact bass synth that was produced in the mid-’90s, Panda Audio’s Future Impact I. steers clear of the exact-to-spec reissue route and instead uses DSP technology to bring the thick and wild sounds of the original pedal into the modern era. While it reproduces all nine of the original’s tones, it also adds many more abilities, with the most noteworthy being deep editing and the brain to store 99 variations arranged in 10 banks.
A Classic Reborn
The Future Impact’s four oscillators run at 512 kHz, which results in a much clearer signal than the Deep Impact’s 32 kHz. It also includes several time-modulation effects, like reverb and delay, a new foldover distortion feature, and MIDI in and out jacks. The required 9V power supply isn’t included in the package, which is a little bit of a disappointment considering the pedal’s high price.
The pedal houses four knobs for governing input and output levels, choosing your program bank, and selecting one of 11 parameters for editing in your selected program. Pressing down on the edit knob cycles through the program banks. There’s a large LED that clearly shows what bank and program you’re in, as well as a pair of footswitches for stepping through the selected bank’s programs and for effects bypassing. Accessing the deep-level settings of the programs is accomplished via the free editing program found on the company’s website.
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