Chase Bliss Onward and Vibraphone

My first 14 minutes with Onward, I think it's just wonderful!
#chaseblissaudio #onward #vibraphone

[@BrockDavisson]

Very cool :] ONWARD is amazing.

[@music-jd]

Thank you! I think the same, it's amazing!

[@ronaldeatman6603]

Wow. Imagine this Vibraphone hooked up to a Microcosm and Chase Bliss Habit and maybe even a Generation Loss or Lossy with an Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Light.

[@music-jd]

@@ronaldeatman6603 Check all my other videos and my Instagram. :) And you'll find 98% of what you imagined (:

[@radkon67]

Magnificent! I got mine last week but my vibraphone friend is going to love this!

[@music-jd]

Thank you! And thank you for sharing it with your vibraphonist friend! 🙏

[@markhammer643]

At the 46 second mark, I thought you were beginning to play Terry Riley's "In C"! I received mine last week. Tremendously fun pedal with so many surprises and surprising sounds available. One of the interesting things is what it does with sounds that have intrinsically different envelopes. You may have seen one or more KZbin demos that Emily Hopkins did with her harp, Marimba doesn't have the identical amplitude envelope but, like harp, is also more "punctate" than guitar generally. At the same time, between 4:00 and 5:00 the "sustain"/maintenance of notes can be extended. Fascinating and nicely done.

[@music-jd]

Terry Riley's music will always be a reference, the hands go away on their own sometimes. :) Thank you very much for your comment! I will certainly look for more information after I sit down and read the manual, this was just a first approximation immediately after the pedal came through the door of my studio, it could be quite interesting to use this pedal with a marimba! Especially since the attacks on the marimba are fascinating! Unfortunately, I don't know the person you tell me who plays the harp, but I will also look into that. Many thanks! 🙏

[@markhammer643]

@@music-jd Her KZbin channel can be found under "Harp lady". She too has an Onward demo.

[@bombcollective]

Seems like onward is running the show here…

[@tokiboi6777]

a lil expenso for being such a one trick pony, isnt it

[@kaylons]

Genuine question: What makes Onward inferior to smth like, let's say, a distortion pedal - arguably *THE* one-trick pony of all pedals?

[@tokiboi6777]

@@kaylons ehm, this pedal is a 470 bucks pedal. the expectations are way higher, also because it is marketed as a innovative special pedal. if you decide to go that path as a brand the options within the pedal have to meet a certain level of versatility, even if this versatility is just within the spectrum of one effect. I feel like this one, of all the cba pedals does not deliver that.

[@kaylons]

@@tokiboi6777 I believe this performance from Rodríguez shows versatility from this one "effect" (even though it's more like two effects + multi fx modulation). I also don't believe cba has marketed this as an innovative special pedal. I believe Joel and co have marketed it as a successor to the Cooper FX Outward - specifically its envelope mode - that has been adapted and expanded into a standalone pedal. The founder of Cooper FX, Tom Majeski, chiefly worked on both Outward and Onward. cba don't even make pedals just for guitar anymore. The vocalist Courtney Swain is a notable user of cba pedals, and it's their friendship with and endorsement of her work that has helped shape the growing reality that cba pedals are also fully functional desktop units. Swain, Rodríguez, and even others like reviewer Jorb and instrumentalist Flo Chai have broken that notion a bit ago. I think the discussion and debate spawning from the Lossy pedal and CXM 1978 in guitar pedal forums shows this, too. Your line of thinking is short-sighted. You're looking at this from a more conservative POV, that a 470,00 pedal must have more knobs / features / anything. I'm gonna assume you would pay half of 470 for smth like this. In fact, I'm willing to bet that you judge a pedal by its knobs. cba packs a lot of tricks, features and such into a pedal like Outward... which is why it has dipswitches. Virtually all cba pedals have the dipswitches. Complexity in features and design generally leads to paralysis, so cba designs with intuition. That means they're betting that someone is creative enough to take a look at this, figure it out and experiment. Fuck the field guide! In other words, the value of Outward is a bit more subjective than economic. For 470, you get a bespoke sampler that has wicked tracking, two effect blocks, and a palmful of alternate features... for anything you can plug in and out of it. I think you think this is a one-trick pony because you had wrong expectations, and you expressed your belief in a central, unifying set of expectations for pedals. In other words, you seem to have forgotten that niche markets exist and cba have always had one foot in that door. It must be why whenever they announce a new pedal, it always turns a few heads. also cost is not just branding. cba have 17 publicly listed employees, of which a few are engineers. They are also a small business; there's only two people in their EU branch! For-profit business exist _for profit._