Operating The Future Impact V3; Playing The Future Impact V3; Tuner - Panda-Audio Future Impact v3 User Manual

Operating the Future Impact v3

The FI has 99 sounds (programs) distributed across 10 banks: bank 0 has 9 sounds, all
other banks have 10. Step up through the banks by pressing the EDIT/BANK UP dial (by
hand only). Press and hold this dial and turn it to quickly move up or down to any bank.
Sounds are selected with the PROGRAM footswitch. Press to move up by one; double-press
to move down by one. Hold down the footswitch after pressing or double-pressing to scroll.
Moving up and down through the programs steps over the bank borders so that you can
access any of the 99 programs using just the one footswitch. The numbers wrap around.

Playing the Future Impact v3

The synthesizer module of the FI is driven by the pitch and volume information derived from
your bass/guitar and the whole range of 24-fret, 6 string bass and guitar is supported.
However, to function correctly, the FI requires an input of cleanly-played monophonic notes.
If you play chords or use slapping or tapping techniques, then this does not provide accurate
pitch information and can result in notes of unintended pitch being triggered on the
synthesizer. Due care must be given to muting between subsequent notes so that the
pitch-detection circuit can accurately "hear" a new pitch and a new note beginning.
Furthermore, if you try to use it outside of the pitch range of the selected Instrument Mode
then unpredictable results will occur. To a certain extent you must learn to play the pedal,
much like you would need to learn to play any new instrument.

Tuner

The FI includes a very high-quality, fast-response Tuner that uses the advanced pitch
detection technology of the FI.
To activate the Tuner, press and hold the ON/OFF footswitch for one second.
To deactivate the Tuner, press ON/OFF briefly and the FI will return to the ON state.
The Tuner can also be activated and deactivated by using its dedicated MIDI command. See
the MIDI Implementation section for details.
The Tuner can be activated from both the ON and OFF states and in either case the audio
output will be completely muted.
In the pedal's LCD, the left-hand digit shows the note name and the middle digit shows (an
approximation of) the # sign. The right-hand digit shows the fine-tune value using one or
more of the three horizontal lines as follows:
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