Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[TheTrueZoltan!]

@DLC86 can you please post that in the thread at TOP, too? I really want to see what happens.

 

[deadpool_25]

This place is sooooo wrong.

It's beautiful.

 

[EOengineer]

If this thing comes out and it’s next level gamechangingwhatever and it’s named the Fractal Buttplug - well we all know how that happened…and I’m buying it.

 

[Los-D]

 

[SpaceMan]

If it’s possible to strip out a lot of the deep modeling parameters from the algorithms and reduce DSP requirements, I would be very interested to see how cheap they could make a small pedal box - agnostic of quantity of foot switches. It would be interesting to see if they can get close to the ~$600 market segment. I just don’t see how they get there from the FM3. Not that anyone is listening but I will continue to champion the form factor of the POD GO, I think it’s

 

[DrewJD82]

I know I just posted about how stoked I am Fractal continuously expands my musical palette, but I’m not quite adventurous enough for a rectal expansion.

 

[deadpool_25]

I know I just posted about how stoked I am Fractal continuously expands my musical palette, but I’m not quite adventurous enough for a rectal expansion.

Go eat at Taco Bell and you'll consider it a safety device.

 

[the swede]

I know I just posted about how stoked I am Fractal continuously expands my musical palette, but I’m not quite adventurous enough for a rectal expansion.

Rectal Audio, in the forefront of back to back compatible plugins.

 

[Frodebro]

Rectal Audio, in the forefront of back to back compatible plugins.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

 

[the swede]

Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Absolutely not!

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

Yes!

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[DrewJD82]

Go eat at Taco Bell and you'll consider it a safety device.

This is timely.

Post in thread 'Fractal Talk'
https://thegearforum.com/threads/fractal-talk.2745/post-240916

 

[Rock Chalk]

Fractal has said in th

Take the FM3, throw out the footswitches and make it barely larger than the front panel. The FM3 takes a lot of space and is a poor fit on pedalboards with its miserable switch count. External footswitching would give you options.

It's a wonder FAS is still even in business at all with so much fail all over the place.....

.......

 

[norminal]

The FM3 takes a lot of space and is a poor fit on pedalboards

Why put the FM3 on a pedalboard? Just put it on the floor like it was designed to do. Been doing this for years with zero issues.

 

[Mongillo19]

Why put the FM3 on a pedalboard? Just put it on the floor like it was designed to do. Been doing this for years with zero issues.

Hybrid builds are a good way to bridge the gap between analog users and digital. I think it would be a good entry for fractal, especially when it seems all their competitors are getting into that field with what appears to be good success.

Not everyone wants an all in one solution and as great as digital can be, physical drives and fuzz still take the cake for me

 

[DrewJD82]

Why put the FM3 on a pedalboard? Just put it on the floor like it was designed to do. Been doing this for years with zero issues.

If I were only using an FM3/9 without expression pedals, I could do this, but with expression pedals and extra cables, I want that shit tidy and easily movable.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Why put the FM3 on a pedalboard? Just put it on the floor like it was designed to do. Been doing this for years with zero issues.

But what if you want to use it with a less good sounding reverb pedal?

 

[Piing]

Wishful thinking, but I still believe the only thing that makes sense is my idea of the FM0:
a minimalist box of chips for full Cygnus modeling.

Take the FM3 chassis and delete everything but the ports. Maybe make it smaller. Maybe stuff it with FM9 chips. Maybe stuff it with next generation DSP (and use that as a pathfinder for pivoting to the next generation of Fractal hardware).

For home/studio use, use Axe-Edit. For live use, use an FC and/or MIDI controllers.

* Requires firmware -- check!
* Hardware based -- check!
* Complements the existing product line -- check!
* Consistent with the current generation -- check!
* Minimal costs across R&D as well as production -- check!
* Minimal impacts to the dev team -- check!
* Leverages the much-loved Axe-Edit -- check!
* Stays in the Fractal lane -- check!

So I doubt it's "native"...and I'm skeptical that it's anything like all these mock-ups of Stomp-sized pedals. A new pedal requires real time and money -- just getting the thermals right would require lengthy development.

I also don't see Fractal cutting down their feature set to fit a "My First Modeller"; there's no precedent for them doing that and that seems like a bit of a lane change.

* It is not a replacement for any of their current products -- fail!!

FM0 + FC6 = FM3+3

 

[laxu]

Why put the FM3 on a pedalboard? Just put it on the floor like it was designed to do. Been doing this for years with zero issues.

Remember, the FM9 did not always exist so the FM3 with extras was your main option, especially when it wasn't as capable as it is today with the gapless switching and extra DSP from optimization + FM3 Turbo.

I still think it should have come with 4 footswitches because most things on the unit come in 2/4/8 switchable things.

By the time you add extra footswitches, an expression pedal etc you might want to mount all that on a board. Or maybe there's some special pedal you like that you want to use.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Forum wussie watt McCo: “Can you make it just a LITTLE smaller? My Fractal combo is about an inch deeper than I prefer.

Cliff: “I gig the AxeDx. Love I use it with a power amp and 4x12.”

Something tells me Cliff’s response to FM0 is…