TheTrueZoltan!
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Seriously, can you guys stop it already? This thread makes me want to go back to TOP again.
Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation
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Achilles
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The St. Rock Amperium has this and it's really frickin cool!
Achilles
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I don't think anyone's taking any offense here. I certainly am not.
It's just the internet and all of you are just avatars. What's to get upset about?
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duzie
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I consider quite a few here more than just Avatars
paisleywookiee
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I wouldn't like that though. I like the depth just as it is, because I do edit deeper stuff on the device. If they were to go touchscreen route, just modernize FM9-Edit a bit more, and for touchscreen, and then put that on the device.
Mongillo19
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I have to imagine Cliff is never going to mention a new product before release again 
Sascha Franck
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Do these actually have iOS/Android editors?
TheTrueZoltan!
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paisleywookiee
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Eh. Sort of. Also great for live use. "Wait a minute, ladies and gentlemen. I have to tweak the presence on this amp model I'm using! Let me get my phone......"
Elf
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Didn’t expect this at all! https://www.fractalaudio.com/
metropolis_4
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Axe III is the best of the Fractal for me in this aspect because I can sit the unit up close to me and I don’t have to reach down to the floor to see/do what I need while playing.
I love the Stomp XL. It’s the Goldilocks HX product for me.
My performance
Sascha Franck
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In all seriousness, the very last place a delicate touch screen belongs to is a club stage floor. Not only that there's a vastly higher risk of damage, no, it's also that, unlike you're a guitar playing dog or ant or whatever, your hands aren't exactly close to that very touchscreen most of the time. In fact, they pretty much never are. You know, this is also why keyboards sit on stands. Or a marimba. They're not placed on the floor for a reason. Right: because they're supposed to be abussd by our greasy paws. With touchscreens it's no different.
So, all things considered, a touchscreen on the floor, making you look like a crawling fool should you have to deal with it inmidst a set, is what I'd call a gross solution. A tablet on a music stand however, placed discretely on the side of the stage is quite something else, namely elegant, easy to use and cost efficient.
GTR37
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100% this
Mike Pickens has done a great job with Axe edit just make the screen big enough and responsive maybe even
Cut down the number of options
So you have
Tone
Tweaks
Speaker
Tone is your basic tonestack and power amps controls
Preamp / power amp most used parameters
Tweaks are the mod you can do to that amp model
Change power tubes
Add satauration switch
Fat switch
Tight switch
Bright cap value
Speaker
Impedance curve
Thump
Speaker drive
Ir loader / Dyna cab
Sascha Franck
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Well, that's not how you'd do things. You'd just keep the editor opened on a tablet (which many people are using anyway, be it for sheets, IEM remote controls and what not). Personally, for live performances, I'd actually love to see a performance screen, featuring just the most relevant parameters, maybe even only delivering limited tweaking bandwidth (more kinda like what a modulation is doing).
