Sorry, no idea; you might look to see if the GX-100 has that since it's been out longer and people understand its capabilities better....
Boss GX 10 ..... Floor EFX Unit Anyone ?
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Bluetooth adapter arrived yesterday; easy enough to install...but kind of underwhelming? I mean, duh, you have a touch-screen and physical knobs on the device itself; it's easy to use and quite responsive. The app seems locked to portrait, it's a little slow, and some things are klunky compared to just using the GX-10. At least there's the librarian and access to online presets....but since I don't see myself buying the Boss bluetooth controllers, the adapter is of limited value. I'll keep the adapter, but in hindsight computer editing via USB would've been all I needed.
JiveTurkey
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How's the touchscreen itself as far as responsiveness?
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Fwiw, this is really bad. Once you're using a tablet, it could be much more like the desktop editor.
Talking about the GT editor here, but from all I know, the GX editor is pretty much identical in that regard.
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Just in the studio...
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I jammed the presets for a couple hours. Some really good tones in there. Particularly the mid gain stuff has good bite to it. Cleans are also nice. High gain tends to sound a bit stuffy. Like too much of a good thing. Drives, fuzz, mods, delays and reverbs are all good.
Build quality is very good. It’s small but has some heft to it. Touch screen works great. UI is intuitive without reading the manual.
I’ll post a demo in a few days once I’m really comfy with it.
Build quality is very good. It’s small but has some heft to it. Touch screen works great. UI is intuitive without reading the manual.
I’ll post a demo in a few days once I’m really comfy with it.
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There are some great tones in there for sure. The AIRD cabs are pretty good too but it really shines with a few choice IRs.
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This looks like a really impressive unit for the price.
It's good; I haven't found any issues in terms of accuracy.
A few rando comments / observations:
- As a semi-pro UX designer I think touch requires undo -- which is lacking here. So pray you don't bump the screen and accidentally change a different parm....
- Remember when touch first came to phones and tablets, and one of the problems was that your finger would obscure the thing you were trying to change? That's sort of present here, but it's not a deal-breaker....and Boss seems to have given the parms fairly generous "hit boxes" so you can actually touch to one side of the circular sliders, etc. Something you learn to do...
- When editing a preset, the upper list of available effects is pretty lengthy (and poorly organized); there's no "ballistic" scrolling like we're all used to on phones -- you can't just flick to scroll quickly thru. The Select knob is much better for navigating this...
- Perhaps the best thing about touch is for those infrequent little tweaks where you can't remember how the damn thing works -- looking at you, FM9! I keep looking at the controls on both the GX-10 and FM9; I really think Fractal should just revisit how those controls work because there's no reason why it can't be as intuitive as it is on the Boss unit. Make it a preference; call the current control scheme "Cliff mode" and the new scheme can be called "Chucklehead mode" or whatev...
I do wish it was modular; it seems so at home on my desk that the footswitches and expression pedal are almost dead to me.
And I'm becoming a broken record but it really makes me want an FM0 more than ever. Didn't we collectively design the damn thing like six months ago?!
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namathan_zirwir
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I would like to see Boss make something like the HX Effects with 6 switches. Simple unit. Effects only
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Speaking of broken record; I continue to wish someone at Boss cared about revisiting the legacy amps and making them at the very least not sound like shit. Their array of (ugh) form factors is excellent. I just want a good sounding Rectifier and Marshall. Take the same pride as you do in the X amp crap FFS.
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They possibly don't want to cannibalize their dedicated FX units.
ian_dissonance
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Meh, everyone else is fighting for the most accurate recreations, I like it better when companies try to come up with new shit.
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I'd just settle for reasonable facsimile
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All I care about is that it sounds really good. So far, I’m finding potential in the GX-10.
Not selling my FM9 though.
Not selling my FM9 though.
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Watching Cordy's vid on this from this morning. That touchscreen response looks like an abomination
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Watching Cordy's vid on this from this morning. That touchscreen response looks like an abomination
Man, looking at those size comparisons, I now kinda do want a "GX-10 Core" that is slightly deeper than the GT-1000 Core with the touchscreen.
Regarding responsiveness, to me it seems fine. I think it looks worse on video because e.g Cordy's video is running at 25 fps according to YT stats, which means it's going to look much less smooth than in the real world.
I don't like Boss' "drag a block from the scrollable top list" design because it can be hard to find the thing you want and dragging it from there takes more time than just tapping "put this selected thing to this spot here".
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