and downloaded over a USB port to the
Flexbox. If you have a basic knowledge
of effects, this will allow you to do some
unique things on your own—without
having a Source Audio engineer stand-
ing beside you. We would like to get it to
where, in the simplest version, you can
just download an effect chosen from a list,
with all the knobs preprogrammed for you.
If you are dissatisfied with that version
because you think, ‘I don’t really use that
knob, but there is another thing I would
like to control,’ you will be able to reassign
some of the controls. Some people won’t
want to deal with it, some will, and others
will want to go even further.”
Remignanti elaborates. “Let’s say Bob
comes up with an algorithm that could
potentially have 20 parameters, but there
are only five knobs. In one version of the
software, you can download the effect with
five preselected parameters, but in another
version you will be able to assign your
choice of any five parameters out of the 20.
You will be able to buy the effect online,
tweak it, and download it as a preset into
The Source Audio MIDI interface (prototype pictured) allows you to run MIDI through the xpression pedal port and daisy-chain it so you can set up scenes with a MIDI controller.
the Flexbox. You can share those presets,
but not the effect itself, with your friends.”
The Doors of Perception
Since the company’s inception, the folks
at Source Audio say there have been very
few complaints about the sound their ped-
als—though they have had to contend
with a fairly significant prejudice against
pedals that aren’t entirely analog. “There
is that huge wall against digital,” says
Source Audio guitar guru/videographer Jeff
