Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[OrganicZed]

I want a Fractal Power Amp.

This would be great. I can imagine a high quality, single rack space solid state amp that can feed real time information back to your Fractal device to accurately adjust the amp modeling for your exact cabinet's behavior. It would be like having a tube power amplifier without the inherent coloration or the complications of the additive impedance curve effects. I would definitely buy that.

 

[2dor]

not hard to do at all with the black box captures/profiles, they can run fast af on potato DSP, the NAM players and Kemper and tonex don't use any resources at all

NAM profiles are pretty hungry though

 

[Stone]

somewhat know your scales

Time stamped --->

 

[James Freeman]

Guys we've been had, this is obviously a distraction, let's go back to talking smack about the new firmware.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Guys we've been had, this is obviously a distraction, let's go back to talking smack about the new firmware.

 

[0XI0]

NAM profiles are pretty hungry though

are they? does NAM have an oversampling equivalent you can make it higher quality at the $$ of more resources? i know tonex and kemper are cheap af, that's how they run so fast, and only kilobites of file size

 

[2dor]

are they? does NAM have an oversampling equivalent you can make it higher quality at the $$ of more resources? i know tonex and kemper are cheap af, that's how they run so fast, and only kilobites of file size

Yeah. The standard model size isn't all that easy on the CPU.
You can freely go under the hood to tweak the size & quality of the trained models to be splitting-hairs closer to the source at the expense of even more CPU at runtime

 

[Achilles]

NAM

What is this? Thanks.

 

[0XI0]

i still don't know wtf gutsiness sounds like

 

[paisleywookiee]

What is this? Thanks.

Neural Amp Modeler. Open source ML-based capture, similar to ToneX.

 

[norminal]

I want a Fractal Power Amp.

This.

 

[Mongillo19]

This.

Unfortunately I can't imagine a power amp having firmware but it would be cool product for FAS to make

 

[Achilles]

Unfortunately I can't imagine a power amp having firmware but it would be cool product for FAS to make

Get the feeling if it was a power amp it's gonna have some built in DSP control included???

 

[jellodog]

Unfortunately I can't imagine a power amp having firmware

Sure it could.

It could have some intelligent mechanism to feedback information to a FAS modelling device concerning its interaction with the speaker load. Lots of possibilites there.

 

[DrewJD82]

Hell, just think of the Mesa 2:90; voicing/tube options all built into the power amp, it was just all analog.

 

[Whizzinby]

Y’all so complicated bunch.

Yeah, if you have to give a dissertation for the idea, it’s not a good one. This is simple…

 

[Mongillo19]

GUESS IM JUST STUPID THEN

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Yeah, if you have to give a dissertation for the idea, it’s not a good one. This is simple…

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Yeah, if you have to give a dissertation for the idea, it’s not a good one. This is simple…

Dude, software:

Hardware:

 

[FuzzyAce]

i still don't know wtf gutsiness sounds like

Similar to throaty. And dare I say ballsy.