Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[mbenigni]

The designations Flagship Rack, Compact Floor, and Flagship Floor are curiously missing from your retort.....

The bottom line (particularly from where I'm standing), is that "not a replacement" doesn't really mean anything except, "We don't have immediate plans to discontinue anything from our current product line." But it's still entirely possible that the new product will better suit certain use cases than an older one had previously.

And I have no idea why I'm saying this shit out loud. Go buy my FM3.

 

[Achilles]

I hope you're right. And I wish FAS would make a announcement to this effect about nowish. I can only handle so many price cuts on my Reverb listing...

Seriously, what's the deal with that?

The Gear Forum:

FAS Management:

 

[Orvillain]

All in one box? More frequent firmware updates? PC software editor?

Those things are good for sure, but not 100% required for me. They're nice to haves.

I think what the Fractal would give me is a wider range of delays and reverbs, which are the categories I care the most about. A shit ton of drives which actually sound really good, and a bunch of modulation effects that I seldom use, but appreciate.

Another thing that sprang to mind - just assume for argument sake that the thing will be able to send PC's or CC's using a scene midi block, and you can choose from 4 scenes on the thing. That would actually sit quite nicely next to a QC, with the QC in hybrid mode where the bottom four buttons are scenes, and the top for are stomps... the FX4 could then trigger the other 4 scenes on QC using midi CC 43, at the same time as changing the effects on the FX4.

Ha!! Look at me inventing functionality!! What a bellend.

 

[aivoryuk]

I think it’s the rare bird that people LIKE to use in 4cm. The FM9 and Axe III both have dedicated “unity gain” outputs specifically optimized for 4CM.

that is interesting to know - I have to send the signal on my FM3 via spdif to a DAC for 4CM method with no noise.
I always thought it was an impedance type issue and may consider getting a reamp box to try to see if that works.

 

[nicolasrivera]

Stay focused on the facts people!

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There are plenty of players that only use the FM3 for its FXs, so it will be fun to see just how far this words go.

 

[Orvillain]

Stay focused on the facts people!

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[TubeStack]

What would an FX4 offer that an FM3 doesn't already offer? Apart from an extra footswitch? Wouldn't an FX unit be a subset of the functionality of an FM unit?

Or is this based on the assumption that an FX4 would be significantly cheaper?

It's newer and shinier, silly!

 

[paisleywookiee]

There are plenty of players that only use the FM3 for its FXs, so it will be fun to see just how far this words go.

So what are you saying it’ll have?

 

[Orvillain]

Fractal looking for someone who can make mobile apps.

 

[Mongillo19]

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Fractal looking for someone who can make mobile apps.

Then this current product probably does not have an app?

Maybe for next gen?

 

[Orvillain]

@FractalAudio You should consider UI frameworks such as Electron, Svelte, and any other JS based framework that would allow you to not have to rely on C++ coders to build your UI's.

 

[mbenigni]

It's newer and shinier, silly!

But I thought FAS guys hated shiny things.

 

[JiveTurkey]

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Fractal looking for someone who can make mobile apps.

Time to put that IOS experience to work @mbenigni ! Be the change you want to see!

 

[mbenigni]

Time to put that IOS experience to work @mbenigni ! Be the change you want to see!

Man, I so wish I were qualified for this position. I see that it's fully remote, meaning I wouldn't have to relocate. And I would LOVE to be working on whatever FAS is up to.

Unfortunately, I only briefly dipped my toes in iOS development, years ago. And that was before most of the tools in that job description even existed.

 

[jellodog]

Fractal looking for someone who can make mobile apps.

Man! I'd love to do a job like that, but I'm not C / C++ guy.

I'm more the FP garbage-collected Lisp weenie type of dev

 

[deathbyguitar]

I should have gone into programming instead of IT. Lol

 

[Orvillain]

I should have gone into programming instead of IT. Lol

I should've gone into DSP instead of... whatever the hell my job is. Herder of cats, do-er of all things averagely, something like that.

At least DSP nerds can go into a room and close the door and just be left alone!

 

[laxu]

@FractalAudio You should consider UI frameworks such as Electron, Svelte, and any other JS based framework that would allow you to not have to rely on C++ coders to build your UI's.

More like Flutter, or React Native. Both can also work together with native modules on iOS and Android.

I agree with the premise though. You will find talented UI developers who can work with e.g React much easier than you will find C++ programmers doing the same.

But it's been a few years since I've worked in mobile development so I'm not up to date on what's the latest and greatest.

 

[Orvillain]

React Native

Has been an utter ballache for our hardware. I'm sure it is largely fine, but I wouldn't say it was cheaper than using C++ devs natively working with JUCE!

 

[Los-D]

I should've gone into DSP instead of... whatever the hell my job is. Herder of cats, do-er of all things averagely, something like that.

At least DSP nerds can go into a room and close the door and just be left alone!

*Cries in legacy C++ 11 compiler at work*