Hi this is Ben Rogerson for Music Radar.com and I'm here with Ralph from Digitech because
he's going to show us their new iPB-10 pedal board which is quite revolutionary in the
sense that it can contain an iPad, so Ralph let's find out a little bit more about it please.
>>Basically the iPad is just a control for the housing for the effect unit that we have
here, it's a free assignable pedal board which means you can assign whatever pedal you
want to have on that pedal board. You have the selection out of I believe more than 50
pedals or more than 80 pedals even and you can freely assign the signal flow that means
you can have the reverb before the distortion you can have the delay after the distortion
you can decide where your external stunt loop is, where your amp, your real amp comes in,
you can use our internal amps or an external amp, you have literally free hand with anything
you want to do to it. >>Ok, so all the processing is actually going
on inside the pedal board itself and the iPad is serving as a control is that right?
>>Correct all the the processing is done by 2 audio DNA chips which are sitting in the
IPB10. So ok the basic structure of the pedal is pretty simple as you would as you know
it from our RP series, so you can do everything live what you need to do, you can tap tempo,
the delay add the stompbox, the external stomploop which is up here and you can bring in the
external amp which is the button here and you can swap the banks up/down here and these
are your 5 presets per bank and on each preset - if I look at preset number 1 - you have
5 different effects. Right so if you want to change anything on each effect instead
of going inside the matrix or going inside some guts of the machine, you just touch the button
here and you move it up and down and you change for example I want a longer reverb than that I just raise
the perameter and we've got more revurb. If you want to switch it on and off you can do
it with a foot or you can do it with your hand on and off that's basically how you change
effects. You can change the effect tray if you go on that 'add it' button here and you get rid
of the reverb here, this one, you just touch it, delete it and it's gone. If you want to
reassign any of those effects foot switches you just drag one of those effects you see here
onto that foot switch 'assign' button here and now that equaliser is on foot switch E. So
everything you do you do by the swipe of your fingers. In addition what I just said, you
have a little symbol of a stomp loop here, before the stomp loop you could have assigned
pre or post distortion, right now you can assign it to whatever place you want it. It
could be, as you see, after the wah pedal, it could be after the chorus pedal and you
just need to track that little stomp loop symbol to the place you want it, same goes
for the amp loop, the external amp loop, you can always use our own amp loop or our own amp models as you see,
this is now my rectifier amp model here, if I touch that I have the selection of the amps,
I can exchange it against the different amp, so push 'done' and now the different amp is in
there and this is a little amp model and this little amp symbol sorry, this little amp symbol
is responsible for the amp that you actually have the real amp I'm not talking models and
if you move that up and down you can have it at a different position and this is fantastic
it means you can exchange the pedal you like, the order of the pedal and the order of the
stomp loop and the order of the amp models. Basically you can assign everything, freely,
open structure I would call it.
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>>Ok, let's talk about pricing and availability then, so when can we buy this and how much
is it going to cost. >>It should hit the stores in about 14 days
time, 10 to 14 days it should be in the stores and the retail price I've been told is £499,
so a pound less than 500! >>And what about the app is that available
to download now? >>The app is available to download now, it's
ipp Nexus if you type ito the search parameters Digitech Nexus you should be able to find
it right now. >>Just to confirm you can make settings on
the app without actually being hooked up to the board and the board will function without
the app. >>Actually you can use both seperately you
don't have to have the iPad installed to use the iPB but you can design the pedal board while you're
on the train going to the gig, you can assign a nice pedal board and then fly in the iPB
or the iPad in the unit and then you can adapt that freshly created pedal board into your
sound, into your gig. That's pretty cool because you can use one without the other but both
together of course has some sort of synergy going on.
>>Ok, thank you very much Ralph, that's the Digitech iPB-10.