Onward - Walkthrough

This is what Onward does.
0:00 - Begin
1:03 - Backstory (Onward vs. Outward)
1:38 - Overview
2:31 - Onward 101
3:28 - Freeze
3:47 - Glitch
4:03 - Shape section
5:18 - Error section
8:05 - Effects section
10:06 - A secret
10:42 - Extra stuff
Preorder here:
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Read more here:
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Thanks for your time.

[@MrXNITROx]

I've chosen the wrong time to be broke

[@alexboggs277]

I will sell a kidney!

[@dasczwo]

i never managed to find the right time to be broke. and ive been trying loong and haard.

[@godjesus3232]

relax man they are going to release limited edition variants of this that will look way better anyway, they always do now

[@dorianford6227]

I feel that man I am selling a couple pedals to get this. It’s sad it’s come down to that now.

[@JoHisey]

No one chooses to be broke, broke chooses US.

[@stevepardo]

hey mom, i wanna be a chase bliss jumpsuit headset-mic demo man for halloween

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

hahaha, jumpsuits are from Dickies if it's helpful.

[@mesadeco1]

Grow a beard, might help

[@Eli_B3000]

We have headset mic demo jumpsuit man at home

[@ReductioAdAbsurdum]

The fact that they have a VLTone on the table brings me great joy.

[@G.GordonMidi]

I’m glad Joel asked if Zack was playing 2001: A Space Odyssey cuz I really needed the resolution of that melody for some reason haha

[@Dungeon_of_Regret]

MI just wish I had a Time Machine to have these things back when I had time to really go deep into gear. I love this so freaking much. I can’t use it myself but the kids are going to change the world with this stuff.

[@mjxx]

Give it a try! I’m sure that even with limited time you can have tons of fun with it!

[@Dungeon_of_Regret]

@@mjxx blooper was closest- i got confused by the interface but loved the sound (dl4 looper for life ). Mood v1 was a blast but impractical out of my house but the v2 seems to make it way more practical. But missing that beautiful creme-cicle color. This is one of the more practical things they’ve released. I’ll def be buying - I buy everything they do. It just challenges my youthful ambition with reality that learning new shit is harder when you’ve got a day job, kids, yard work etc.

[@Dungeon_of_Regret]

@@mjxx if chase bliss made a big ole blooper with 4 foot switches, a bit smaller than dl4 with identical workflow but instead of delays a smorgasbord of their best filters, lofi sounds,, weirdo-tron settings,, but identical ui to the dl4 more or less, they could command $800-1200 and no problem. Dudes like me see “same workflow as dl4- wacky best of chase bliss presets in the middle” id be on that at any price point. The dl-4 looper is the way loopers should work- gold standard. (Rc505 is great too but not for feet). Currently using a volante for this role. I’d love that slot to be a looper from their creative minds.

[@tehroflzcrisp]

It's like Radiohead in a pedal... amazing. I know what I'm asking Santa for Christmas!

[@78awhite]

Big ass juice would not have been on my bingo card for this video 🤣. Loving the Onward... immediate order.

[@chrislink73]

I hope there will be more demo videos of this in the coming days! It looks awesome so far, you guys always make cool stuff.

[@SIKKYBEATS]

you guys are always making something cool and weird! can't wait to see what this thing can do!

[@zweygoat]

Congrats Tom, Cooper and everyone at Chase Bliss. Thank you for creating this imaginative new pedal. Can't wait to run some drums through it!

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

thanks for the love! it's a really great time, that Onward.

[@markhammer643]

I'm just stunned by how Tom managed to keep track of all the capabilities. It must have been like trying to pack vacation suitcases for a family of 12. Most pedals have a single function and no matter how many bells and whistles are contained, they are still focused on optimizing or tweaking that specific function. But this has more destinations and personalities than Robin Williams on speed.

[@tehnik333]

amazing work, well done Tom

[@13aphomet]

You guys are killingggg it. So original and amazing. Wow.

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

thank you!

[@stephenbeyer]

You three made me laugh several times throughout this video Haha Onward seems very cool!!

[@konjuremuzik]

God I love this company! Dope pedal as usual! ❤❤❤

[@Crab_Karaoke]

Thanks for telling him to finish the Space Odyssey riff.

[@CHodgy]

Strauss would have flipped you the bird for calling it a "riff"

[@Crab_Karaoke]

@@CHodgy I guess that's good he can't read this then.

[@FerIsella]

great presentation guys!

[@couchsurfernation]

loooove it! my fav pedals. Chase Bliss making the hits once again.

[@noranygard]

When I was a teen, I played Happy Apple in a noise band called Zebra Corpse.

[@jamesprisciandaro3144]

Love the dual purpose knobs (turn one way for one effect, the other for a different effect)!

[@phladjki]

Very cool. Will definitely pick on up.

[@treeforthetaking]

Just preordered, this shall feed my Blooper nicely… 🌱💚🌱

[@rosettacarr406]

Omg! You guys did it again 🙃🥰🥰 congrats!! Cant wait to tey this and ad it to the Sampha Bliss pedalboard

[@rossstewart9284]

Really into the drone and glitch capabilities of this, reminiscent of some of the Pladask stuff

[@Duskmos]

Sounds pretty tasty. Looks pretty tangy. Zesty demo y'all.

[@gregdouras8796]

Oh, neat. I love what y'all make.

[@roccoharris]

I love it too.

[@RemitheDreamfox]

BABE WAKE UP NEW CHASE BLISS PEDAL DROPPPPPPP

[@VictorPageMusic]

Sounds SO GOOD

[@Tomekmusic]

Incredible! 🤩

[@gtryify]

good to see cooper doing well

[@alitna]

This is all I ever wanted from a pedal!:)

[@DivKid]

This is fantastic!

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

thanks! we think so too :)

[@markhammer643]

Not only is Onward fun in and of itself, but it seems like it can sub for a bunch of other pedals/effects as well: vibrato, tremolo, bitcrusher, envelope shaper, and more. NIcely done, gang! That Cooper is one smart dog. He's earned every one of those white hairs honestly. But after all that coding, no wonder he looks tired.

[@roccoharris]

hahaha!! you brought it around to just what I was thinking... sweet, sweet cooper has earned that nap!! pooper cooper scooper.

[@JackSole17]

I would say if you tried to use it for standard effects like vibrato you would have a hard time aha I definitely could be wrong tho, aha

[@markhammer643]

@@JackSole17 I'm just going by what I saw demoed here...if ever so briefly.

[@JackSole17]

For sure, that’s just what I was seeing from the video, it would be handy to use those effects separately, but it doesn’t look like it from this video!

[@smalltown2223]

Thanks Steve!

[@paulkorterecordings]

Combine this with Habit and you could turn a single note into an endless symphony of knob twisting madness. I love it! As an avid user of freeze pedals this is right up my alley. As a side note: I used to work at a studio with that same exact Apple. It would mock us as we tried to finish records - with its innocent smirk and hauntingly giddy bells. Gives me the creeps…

[@pjnewman5947]

I will park it next to my MOOD Mk 1 to begin with, but have a feeling it will soon end up either at beginning (where Gamechanger PLUS pedal currently lives) or the end (after Neunaber Illumine rests). Seriously though, I could see a very condensed pedal board with Onward, a fuzz and maybe just a volume for my 'style' of playing...

[@iiivanoeee]

seems to be a perfect blend between a red panda tensor and a ehx superego+, with your lovely midi abilities...awesome awesome awesome, now i need some money

[@Drewmedin]

Oh dang! This might be the coolest thing you’ve made yet!

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

well shucks, thank you

[@JasonBrockStick]

ewe... awe... OH SH*T! Thank You for making this unique pedal - a couple year's ago I was just starting to research "Outward" and Cooper Effect's - drooling out my ear's then saw they were NO MORE :( Now THIS! Thank You Thank You Thank You!

[@exploring-notes]

Oooh this will bring some Aphex-y goodness on tap, nice :)

[@proteusswarm7291]

I love the mwfx judder glitchyness, but it has quirks and limitations. This seems to be what I wish the judder did.

[@maurobelarde8527]

New CBA pedal! I haven't seen the video yet and my heart is beating very fast... 🥰🥰🥰

[@IOSISDRONE]

For those of us in the (MSP) know, brilliant usage of the Happy Apple there Chase Bliss!

[@rakimhinds6388]

Today I was looking at my pedal board thinking “man I wish I could have just one more cool chase bliss effect to pair with my mood”. Cue you guys releasing a reinvention of one of my favorite cooper fx pedals of all time. Welp…take my money 😂

[@settoregiada]

Nice one!

[@iosifkalpaktsoglou2045]

Very nice. Will this be the ultimate glitch/ stutter I've been longing for, for ages? A combination of mini glitch, aurora, mandala, judder, revolver, the stutter mode of ottobit jr and even more? I think it is. Fingers crossed.

[@chotilottilot3431]

That apple toy has a bell inside. Nostalgic. I used to have that back in the 80's

[@ShlomirBareket]

reminds me of some of the FX in the CopperFX 'Arcades'. Especially that 'glitch' or 'broken CD' sound, Animal Collective in a box!

[@shoseinen]

I lovec so much Outward, even don't having one. So, Onward is instantaneously great.

[@dani1punch]

So damn happy to see cooper

[@roccoharris]

we love you too. we really, really do.

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

awww

[@EcoCentrist]

granular effects, so hot right now. Tom is a clever one, another nifty device from CBA

[@amuletsmusic]

AMAZING

[@seedmole]

Fun stuff, reminds me both of things I'd do years ago with a keeley modded DD3 and a DD6, and stuff I've done more recently with some of the granular sampler examples in puredata.

[@JoelGilardini]

Looking forward to this... Mood mk1 wasn't my piece of cake, but this Onward reminds me of some pedals I own and love a lot mashed together: MASF Raptio, Pladask Bakfram and EHX Superego!

[@SynthoidSounds]

Oh no! Yet another CB pedal to be obsessed with! I already have the MOOD MKII and Habit, along with my ever expanding managerie of other esoteric pedals. There should be some sort of 12 step recovery program for hard core pedal addicts . . . but for now, may have to be feeding my pedal addiction once again soon.

[@kiefhouse]

Can’t wait for the day ya’ll make your pedals in eurorack format

[@Mdjagg]

Calling @Knobs to the rescue!

[@Clee3421]

@ChaseBlissAudio I do not see a dry kill on the dips, does the mix knob go 100% wet with no dry passing through? This is a make or break feature for using it as a send fx! Looks awesome either way.

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

Holding the left footswitch during power up will toggle Dry Kill Mode on/off

[@bnz70]

Was the greyish colour influenced by old Akai rackmount samplers?

[@ebeep]

Mind blown.

[@Alex_Martz]

It sounds great although I think it has a lot of overlap for someone who already has the Blooper, Mood MKII and Habit, also, this is the 1st chase bliss pedal where I didn't liked the color or graphic design Please re-release the Bliss Factory!

[@godjesus3232]

the graphic design does not matter when they release 1-2 limited edition variants of all their pedals nowadays

[@Speedster27]

Love chase bliss, I really do, and I love this color way! It’s nice! But damn the missed potential to do something super cool with the og outward colors would’ve been awesome! But i guess its cause it’s not an outward, it’s something more

[@BrockDavisson]

GIVE ME NOW!! and hey lol 2:09 person is playing guitar like I do lol. Love it! It's like mood had a baby with tc electronics infinite sample sustainer and they thought it was just one baby, but a surprise twin popped out and gave you a synthesizer too!

[@bw5260]

Love your LVX presets on patchstorage!

[@QuentinLamerand]

God damn, this is absolutely perfect. I'll wait for a prettier limited edition though (also way too broke right now)

[@letmeooze]

Very cool! Have you lent this out to anyone to demo? I've been wanting some sort of intelligent freeze effect for a while that could pad when I'm not playing, but stay out of the way when I am. I'd love to hear how it handles that Julian Lage, Bill Frisell, solo guitar, play a bit, let it breathe, play a bit, let it breathe thing.

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

No demos yet! The pedal is still currently in beta.

[@VEsound]

Nice one as usual! ❤ With more sampling time it would be useful more often though. 😉

[@ZissouASquad]

If I connect the output of the Onward to the input of my Outward, will I go back in time? I didn't see that in the manual anywhere.

[@dadodetres]

Hello! I was wondering what is the slowest RAMP frequency? thanks

[@biyikpatrick]

Bravo Tom.Amazing work. My wallet will grab it

[@pjnewman5947]

This is 1/2 of my pedal rig in one box. Just ordered. Too bad I just bought 2 huge pedal boards to house my pedals. I wonder what will happen if I plug ONWARD into my Digitech XP300 Space Station?

[@treesurgeon2441]

So it's like an attack freeze and a csidman with pitch shifting stuff and bit reduction?

[@SONWU]

Sweet!

[@Mdjagg]

Seems like this would be called "Inward"! Cool pedal.

[@jazzblasterrr]

Who knew I needed more clarinet sounds?

[@jamesprisciandaro3144]

Tom killed it.

[@rm3950]

Um, i'm going to need Chase Bliss to send me one tomorrow. i'll pay you Tuesday for a pedal today -promise. :DD Seriously though, I can't wait to use it with my current favorites (Vector/S-4 and Mother 32) synths. For some reason, I've got a good feeling it'll sit nicely, as end of chain, with a Mother 32 > S-4 > Onward set-up. Can anyone else 'hear' the S-4 with this pedal? You guys created another great sounding tool... thanks!

[@cutseencinematics]

This one is like Warp records in a pedal!

[@maurobelarde8527]

I would have preferred if you expanded the functions of the frozen side. Don't take this in a wrong way, but I'm getting tired of those glitchy and error sounds. You could have made the best and most musical drone machine and you missed the opportunity to do it. You have a lot of creativity and technical skills to achieve it. Anyway, I love you all very much. Especially Cooper! Three brotherly hugs. Greetings from Argentina! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@renula]

Ordered.

[@marcogallerin4568]

When the secret mode is introduced it cuts out the L channel. Listened multiple times now.

[@BrockDavisson]

yeah same here, only came out of my right speaker

[@MacGriggle]

Radiohead needs to make an album using this pedal. Well, just Chase Bliss stuff.

[@lb2696]

Mood, Blooper, and Onward are all like Radiohead song climax glitch layer pedals. I have been surprised Ed doesn’t seem to use them.

[@SONWU]

I wonder if grey was chosen, because it's a sampler… an homage to old AKAI MPCs?

[@roblaliberte]

Wow! This is really cool. Would there be anyway I can install this pedal inside of my brain? Imagine walking around and listening to footsteps, birdsongs and frogs.

[@Ernieduzit]

2cb?

[@totalSLACK]

Chase Bliss - Less Talent, More Effects 💚

[@michaeltharrington8858]

WHAT?!?!?! Did all my favorite music companies conspire together to make me go broke? Moog's Spectravox, JHS's new Beach Boys inspired pedals, and now this?! What a day for new releases. By the way, did I mention that I also just learned I'm being laid off... not even kidding. 😅

[@CHodgy]

Get one of those AI pedals, you will transform into a pro musician in 3-5 nanoseconds

[@questocd174]

I wonder if you guys should just start making modular synths and get it over with.

[@chrislink73]

Also, now that we are getting Onward...there HAS to be an Upward pedal at some point in the future. I don't know what it will be, I just know that we need it so I can put them side by side on my board

[@Dungeon_of_Regret]

And damnit, I’m buying this.

[@benjaminkoskinen5835]

The pedal sounds like every Novo Amor intro 👌🏼

[@B99994]

Love it. Kinda scared CBA is gonna take over my board and I’m gonna look like a cult member though.

[@streetcakedesign651]

That’s where I am at, this makes a full dozen on my board.

[@B99994]

@@streetcakedesign651 Whoa ok, and hear I am worrying about having four!

[@SutterWarth]

COOPER MENTIONED

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

we love Coop

[@maurobelarde8527]

The Golden boy! 💖💖💖

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

New pedal YES

[@fabsko195]

Waow, congratulations, did you try with a electric bass ?

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

we've tried all sorts of instruments; these clips are just the ones we felt illustrated the pedal best for a short video! sounds great with bass too!

[@adnk5797]

Does anyone knows what is the music starting around 1min10?

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

A Zack Warpinski composition using Onward

[@bossydinosaur7691]

can the glitch tempo be midi synced?

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

Yep!

[@charnegroenmeyer5369]

are the headsets buffered or true bypass?

[@tenlittleindians]

We need to get the pedal boards off the floor! Tommy Bolin had his tape delay on a stand in front of him while playing with the James Gang. His famous intro on Standing In The Rain required him to manipulate the knobs on the delay for the desired effect.

[@RickyTinez]

sold.

[@marquee-moon]

I don’t need it, but Lord, does I wants it.

[@Jason_H_]

I was actually fooling myself into thinking this new release might be something I could live without. Wrong again!!!

[@joeyfloress1131]

Hey! Assuming yes, but can this be clocked?

[@ChaseBlissAudio]

Yup! It can be MIDI synced

[@joeyfloress1131]

@@ChaseBlissAudio you’re the best!

[@alifeinyellow]

I’d like to hear live drums through this