bass or guitar multi for adding effects to a casiotone type synth?

Hello, looking to add some tremolo and pitch bending via footpedal to my synth and it looks like a cheap digitech or zoom multieffect is the least cost way to experiment with this.

for those who have also tried, I assume I want a "bass" voiced one and not a guitar as the range would be greater to work with the keyboard... correct?

or am I WAY off on this one and guitar version of a multi is where it is at?

Considering that the effects you are looking for are tremolo and pitch bending, I believe either a bass or guitar type effects unit would work the same. It's effects like wah and synth-emulation (things that use filters), and also EQs, that are usually geared towards certain frequencies.

I suppose I might fiddle with some filter stuff... so is it bass versions are better... or bass covers the bass and guitar covers highs and neither work well for both?

Yup, bass multi effects annd seperate effects pedals will work much better with keyboard. The upper end Zooms are my fave for both guitar and bass processors. Bass effects pedals and multi units will work fine with guitar. They ussually dont have the choices for overdrive and distortion that the guitar ones have. But guitar pedals etc normally are not very good at handling low bass frequencies nor the higher output of bass guitars. Keep the output volume on your keyboard relatively low when sending signal to processors so you dont overload the input stage and start clipping the preamp/input stage.

i really love my me-50 with toy keyboards and such.

the only filters it has are a couple different voiced wahs, which are controlled by the foot pedal but they aren't half bad.

it also does octave up and down effects with the footpedal, which is good fun.

the bass version seems to have a couple 'weirder' effects like a bass synth and a defretter effect, but i've never played with one.

also love my alesis ineko, but it's a one-effect-at-a-time type deal.