Boudoir Guitar
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I’m all for tactile control, but even something with a lot of knobs like a kemper still doesn’t really feel like using real gear,
Totally agree that there is fundamentally no way to make a "multi" unit feel like using "real" gear. Hell, even using a Strymon Mobius feels a lot different than just having phaser and tremolo pedals on a board.
and ultimately isn’t really advantageous to using a mouse, simply because modellers have so many pages, menus,
Disagree here on the Kemper, at least. The VAST majority of my fine tweaking once a patch/rig is created is in terms of reverb decay/mix; delay feedback/mix; tremolo rate/depth. Having dedicated knobs for those things is a pretty big improvement to the playing experience once a rig has been created.
even the FM-3 is way too complex (as in, versatile/capable) to tackle that. I don’t think the existing products could just be reduced down to simple controls, it would have to be its own thing,
Totally agree -- the Performance pages on the Fractal units are a pretty big help, but (1) I wish there was a faster way to get to them (ideally, just have the device boot to those pages by default as an option) and (2) AT BEST they address the same kind of situation discussed above and don't really replace at all the experience of working with "real gear".