14 DAY TRIAL // Well, it looks like rock'n'roll is turning mobile these days. Yep, it was rather hard for me too to decide for myself whether this piece of news was a good one I should hail or just a piece of crap I should mock... a cup of coffee later I yelled: "Hell, yeah!".
What we're talking here is maybe the first step towards such a great future in mobility as far as the guitar/bass worlds are concerned: actually having your digital effects pedalboard stored on your pocket [admark=1]PC and being able to play it everywhere, everytime with no boundaries. The Pocket StompBox is one neat piece of code that will (or at least tends to) replace the numerous pedals guitar players carry with them all the time for gigs.
The Pocket StompBox is an application you can install and run on any Windows Mobile device and then connect your bass or guitar and rock on, sending the shredding riffs to an external amp- or rocking all by yourselves wearing a pair of (not supplied) headphones.
The Pocket StompBox is a truly promising piece of software as it comes loaded with pretty much a guitar player could ever want or need to play from smooth and dumb pop to the ear-bleeding death metal - this program brings forth effects like Overdrive/Distortion, Parametric EQ, Pitch Shifter, Phaser, Tremolo, Chorus/Flanger, Digital Delay, Digital Reverb and 7 Band Graphic Equalizer.
These 9 effects are pretty much everything you could find in any sophisticated big-money guitar processor, maybe except for the amp simulator but hey, we're talking Windows Mobile here, right? The user can change and tweak the settings and run up to 9 simultaneously; Pocket StompBox even has a 40-200 BPM metronome (so you don't go plowing instead of painting), 440Hz reference tone and runs in 11, 22 and 44kHz modes. Of course the patches you create can be stored and redistributed.
The only thing I am thinking right now is when such a piece of code will be actually usable in a most serious manner...you know...pocket PCs aren't known for their faster-than-the-speed-of-light processors...
Until then, you could give Pocket StompBox a try since the price is more than OK, $14.95.
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