I’m on my man-cold round 2 (was well for a few days then it started over) so I now sound exactly like Corgan when i talk. Can’t stand myself
Agreed. No idea why it has to be 3 pedals with their own little screens. I’d rather have 5-8 pedals without screens than 3 with.
Here are some FM3 internal shots lifted from https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/fm3-gut-shots.2232087/
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The 3 pedal board is its own PCB. It could be whatever design they want to go with.
what are these cylinders for?
what are these cylinders for?
The C in the designator on the PCB means capacitor. Different can sizes are for different voltages basically.
There's a ton of smaller ones that are surface mounted on top of the PCB but those are rectangular.
Not necessarily, a larger cap could have a higher capacitance but lower voltageDifferent can sizes are for different voltages basically
Some people believe that, another theory is that those are the little houses where the Tone Elf live and come out at night to work!
those are polarized capacitors.
Some people believe that, another theory is that those are the little houses where the Tone Elf live and come out at night to work!
You've obviously not read Cliff's comments on ARM...The heat is caused by the CPU. Modern ARM-CPUs create *way* less heat.
ARMs aren't particularly good at DSP. They're getting better every generation but still nowhere near a dedicated DSP
Interesting...Per Leons response to Andy's post on FB, he is in on this new thing too, so I'd say he 100% means Fractal... :)
I'm not sure exactly what that means but it's funny in any caseunix-guy - beta testing since 1876
what are these cylinders for?
So, an ARM in this case might be an "upgrade" regarding heat but a definite downgrade in processing power.
Doesn't mean it's quality... A Fractal is not Helix NativeSo, how comes I can run 4 (!) fully stuffed Helixes on just one single core of my Macbook Air at 3.5ms RTL (an RME would even take this down to a bit below 3ms)? A dedicated OS with its sole purpose being to run one single application could certainly bring latency down yet again and free up some more CPU ressources.
You gotta explain this "downgraded" processing power to me.
Doesn't mean it's quality... A Fractal is not Helix Native
I'll just tag @FractalAudio here and maybe he'll educate you on why.