Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[DrewJD82]

The lack of 4CM capabilities isn’t a huge turn off to me, my biggest goal for the amp/pedal based rig was getting Fractal delays/verbs in the effects loop and using pedals in front of the amp. There’d probably be the occasional time I’d want to run a compressor, flange or chorus in front of the amp but that just gives me more reason to get my hands on PastFX stuff.

 

[PorcinePicker]

Hmmm... wondering how I might utilise SPDIF....

I can only thing that there is a software option to treat the right channels for the input and output, as your 4-cable-method I/O.

Not supporting 4cm seems ... odd. Unless it is literally just a chorus/delay/reverb box, and no drives or anything like that.

Yep. Also a bit confused here, and wondering whether this may be entirely different from what I imagined. Even with everything we've gotten, it's still a complete mystery.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Perhaps it's just a looper box. Ed Sheeran likely wasn't happy with InMusic.

 

[laxu]

Not supporting 4cm seems ... odd. Unless it is literally just a chorus/delay/reverb box, and no drives or anything like that.

That's entirely possible. This could be Fractal's answer to the big box Strymons, Meris LVX & Mercury X and Eventide H90, rather than competing with the HX Effects.

And I'm all for that, it sucks that Strymon is making separate Bigsky, Timeline and Mobius MX that are overkill for most users instead of putting all those into one box as a dual algorithm pedal.

 

[holoholo]

I have a dumb question. Is he running 2 boards? Because I don’t see the Friedman pedal I thought he was running.

 

[toneseeker911]

Not necessarily. If I had to guess it's just effects only so probably FX4

My $$ - if these pictures are accurate - is on a 4 Button *efx* only unit

It has no FX loop guys

Maybe the odds of my bet of an EFX-only unit are getting longer and longer

But I doubt it has amps personally.

And no effects loop

THIS WILL HAVE AMP MODELING . There is no sense in an effects only unit. And I’m willing to die on this hill.

 

[paisleywookiee]

4CM is not a requirement when you run into a clean amp.

Definitely something that's good for gainy amps though.

 

[paisleywookiee]

THIS WILL HAVE AMP MODELING . There is no sense in an effects only unit. And I’m willing to die on this hill.

It was nice knowing you, however brief it was.

 

[laxu]

I have a dumb question. Is he running 2 boards? Because I don’t see the Friedman pedal I thought he was running.

He's probably using a real amp with this rig on stage.

 

[DrewJD82]

Oh aye. "new guy"

I never waste an opportunity to promote this place and the recent threads in the Fractal FB user groups have been getting a bit of TGF spam from me.

 

[yek]

I wonder if this is intended to connect e.g FM3 + "FX4" together, which you could further chain to an audio interface I guess since unlike the FM3, there's both a SPDIF in/out?

Don't know the intention but that seems like a logical explanation. No D/A > A/D conversion required when connecting to another FAS processor, or another one of these new devices, and avoiding added latency.

 

[Los-D]

trapezoid

 

[BenIfin]

Don't know the intention but that seems like a logical explanation. No D/A > D/A conversion required, and avoiding added latency.

Somebody knows something

 

[mbenigni]

 

[Sascha Franck]

Most likely no amp/dirt stuff in this box. Hence nothing for me (but it never has been to start with).

 

[deadpool_25]

Most of the time people running 4cm are in mono. Perhaps you can set the R in/out to be the FX loop?

 

[Whizzinby]

Lack of loop is concerning if this is a FAS multi Fx and not just a delay/verb type pedal. (Timeline/BigSky etc)

 

[mbenigni]

Most of the time people running 4cm are in mono. Perhaps you can set the R in/out to be the FX loop?

I was thinking the same.

Splitting L/R In for this purpose is a no-brainer, really. But sacrificing stereo out is more likely to be problematic.

 

[toneseeker911]

That latest picture which finally looks like it wasn’t shot on a potato -
Why does an FM4 have stereo inputs ? And no XLR out ? Is it… actually an efx unit ?

 

[holoholo]

I wonder if it can be powered via usb-c?