Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[TubeStack]

 

[Piing]

 

[norminal]

Seriously, can you guys stop it already? This thread makes me want to go back to TOP again.

https://thegearforum.com/threads/fractal-audio-systems-mystery-product-speculation.6102/watch

 

[paisleywookiee]

Take it as far as the Quad Cortex goes on the unit and then leave the rest to the PC editor.

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]

I have to imagine Cliff is never going to mention a new product before release again

 

[Aleksi]

 

[Sascha Franck]

Doesn't sit too well with folks around here if you look at the UAFX threads. :-)

Do these actually have iOS/Android editors?

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

 

[paisleywookiee]

Do these actually have iOS/Android editors?

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]

Didn’t expect this at all! https://www.fractalaudio.com/

 

[metropolis_4]

Which Fractal?

(Which Helix? Which performance?)

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]

Companion apps instead of real solutions, gross

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.

 

[the swede]

Didn’t expect this at all! https://www.fractalaudio.com/

 

[GTR37]

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.

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]

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......"

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).

 

[DLC86]

Didn’t expect this at all! https://www.fractalaudio.com/

Nice try

 

[paisleywookiee]

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)

I guess someone does this. I've never seen a rock band with a bunch of tablets up on stage.

 

[DLC86]

Or maybe you wanted to post this @Elf ? https://www.fractalaudio.com/FM0

 

[Sascha Franck]

I guess someone does this. I've never seen a rock band with a bunch of tablets up on stage.

Well, there's plenty of "non-rock" bands as well. Apart from that, in case each modeler had remote control apps, we might start to see more tablets, regardless of the genre. Just as tablets have pretty much completely replaced paper sheets.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Well, there's plenty of "non-rock" bands as well. Apart from that, in case each modeler had remote control apps, we might start to see more tablets, regardless of the genre. Just as tablets have pretty much completely replaced paper sheets.

Ew. Regardless of genre, the last thing I want to see a live band do is fiddling with their phones/tablets. Just MHO.