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In b4 "But I used the Pignose for everything!"
Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation
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I doubt it's even a question of finding sufficient space. More a question of finding the motivation (versus taking on other improvements that are possibly legitimately more exciting.)
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The only way to achieve total emotional fulfillment is to have both.
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I bought the rack so I don't have to bend down!
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I swear a couple of companies misinterpreted the people who said they didn’t mind bending over as saying they didn’t mind getting bent over…
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Challenge for the Fractal experts: how quickly can you dial in a foot switch layout with multiple scenes, a tap tempo tuner, and per preset effect switches all from the unit?
Big difference between being able to do everything and how quickly you can set it all up.
Big difference between being able to do everything and how quickly you can set it all up.
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Doesn't really matter how long it takes if the unit you are comparing it to doesn't even have the possibility
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Helix is infinitely quicker for this kind of thing, 100% it is.
But with Fractal, if you adjust yourself to their auto-layouts, and learn to move around them quickly by tapping the two switches on the right, then you can very quickly jump between a lot of different setups that are automatically laid out for you.
It is a very different way of working.
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Or, how quickly could you do something on the unit that you would never do on the unit to begin with, since that is the type of activity where the editor is the correct tool for the job?
Me? Not quickly at all. I'd probably give up halfway through. But I also wouldn't try setting up something elaborate like that away from my laptop and the editor....even if I had another unit.
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Precisely. I tweak stuff fairly regularly at rehearsals as far as adjusting basic things like delay or reverb mix, maybe adjusting the basic tone controls, but all the deep editing type of stuff is done at home, on my time, while sitting at my desk with the editor.
Why would you never do it on the unit??? If it’s possible you can absolutely want to do it with the unit…
The edit apps are really great, the idea is to have the same on a unit screens.
But I dont want to have to pay more money for a big screen on product as we are in 2024 and everything can be done on a phone or tablet app.
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Configuring the foot switches is not something I would choose to do on the unit (though I do know how), because there is a more efficient way of going about it. I will admit that I’m somewhat old school in my approach, but I cut my teeth in the era right before modeling became a thing, so I am not nearly as captive to the technology as somebody who has been using it exclusively since day one. As such, I look at the the new tools available with the perspective of what they can do for me-not what their shortcomings are.
I do want a good-sized display because information density matters, and a reaching for a phone in the midst of a song/gig/whatever ain't it.
More importantly, I just want a convenient, highly-usable UI....and even as a happy FM9 owner, I admit Fractal has some really low-hanging fruit they need to implement on that front. The suggestions are on the Wish List in the Fractal forums. They have lots of co-signs and they can even be implemented on the current gen of hardware.
I know Cliff is one man, but I want his pursuit of perfection to carry over to UX too.....
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That’s another area where I probably am different from many people. In my first gigging band, I was a wet behind the ears rookie and fifteen years younger than the others, who were all seasoned gigging veterans. If I tried to tweak anything major in the middle of the set, I would get the stink eye right then, then reamed at the next break. It just wasn’t a good look. If your delay mix was a bit off, you just ignored it until the set was over and THEN fixed it.
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Configuring footswitching on a FAS device is pretty much a hellscape.
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