New user Modfactor comments

First, thanks much for this forum that allows us end users to interact with the makers of these products. 

 I'm a new owner of the Modfactor and I just wanted to chime in after
playing with this box for a couple of days. These are initial impressions and suggestions, I apologize in advance if I'm repeating things that have already been brought up. 

I agree that most musicians will be running this box mono, (and most of them will likely be guitarists).

A delay time control for the chorus effect (and flanger too, for that matter) would be *most* appreciated.

Other suggestions (not knowing if it's possible to implement them or not):

I wish there was a choice of ways to route the second LFO.

I
wish some of the settings were more extreme and less hi-fi… for
example the Q wah, if it was a bit grittier sounding with more extreme
midrange control, it would sound more like a real analog wah.

In
general, some way to access settings for EQ would hugely expand the
possibilities of many of the effects. Even just the most basic bass &
treble controls would do a lot.  There are several patches where the X
knob does nothing, perhaps this could be dedicated to an EQ function?

Minor
irritation – you cannot go backwards through the sound banks, only
forward.  I realize you can pre-set a limited number of banks to scroll
through, but even if you are using say 8 different sounds at a gig,
there might still have to be some time consuming back-tracking, unless
you loaded certain effects twice into two different banks.  This would
work but it kind of defeats the purpose of having a bunch of different
sounds in one box.

 2nd minor irritation – you cannot name your stored presets, you must remember a number instead.

 I tried a Digitech FX pedal, the RP-250, now this thing is a
cheesy toy compared to the Eventide Modfactor, in sound, concept and
build quality — but, they did get it right as far as the interface, which is extremely user friendly… and you can scroll thru
the presets in both directions.  The user interface on the Modfactor is a bit opaque, especially the second row of knobs. 

With a box like this I think you are primarily dealing with rock n roll guitar players as customers or potential
customers, and I'd wager that many of them do not have the same
studio/midi background as Eventide's traditional customer base.  I don't know if the Eventide stompbox team has ever listened to an assortment of popular analog stomp boxes, but it might be a useful thing to do.  

OK, now the stuff I like — the sounds are fantastic, especially the Rotary sim, the phasers, tremelo, and vibrato.  These effects alone eliminate several pedals on my board.