People sucking all the joy out of creating things, that's what happened.
As I was there yesterday, but I don't know where to follow what happened today as I have been banned, I'm going to take 5 minutes to try and express myself in your language, but really try to explain how I felt about the situation from my perspective.
1/ I started saying to Cliff that both ce2 or small clone didn’t act like the pedals that I own/or owned. Because of the rate knob, and because we have a knob better than the original switch .
Ok, that’s a forum, that’s not a « thank you « , but it is related to the firmware .
2/ the first answer that I have from Cliff is that I can go use another product if I am not happy . I hated that answer. To me It was a complete disrespect for what I have done from the brand since maybe 10 years now. (I owned the axe fx 2)
I have promote the fractal In all my socials, friend, others forums, even others brand forum lol . I always said that this is the best modeler, that’s you need to have one …
I have done millions of demos , I have 70000 followers in my guitar channel. When I say that something is great, I am sure that there is a commercial impact for fractal audio, I am sure that I have helped to sell axe fx, as I got messages like « wow, because of you I have bought an Axe fx as i love your tone »
So telling me to go fuck myself , brrr (I take it this way)
I thought to myself, "Damn, he doesn't even respect the most prominent guys in his own camp."
3/I initially told him that I didn't think that was a very good answer. And he explained to me, a little more politely, that the controls for all the choruses were identical for everyone.
A little bit surprise, as the amp modelling is well know by fractal audio, to even including the smallest spit
4/ And since Cliff opened the door to the "go fuck yourself then" attitude towards me, these forum watchdogs had a field day saying the same thing... that I was criticizing and blah blah blah
5/ at the same time, some people get my point of view, and it start to have a mini war between having super accurate control and more extended ones
6/ And then he finally arrived, the guy who was the last straw, who spoke to me like I was shit, and that's when I finally tilted, because me too I can be bad to people. I knew when I posted my last message that it wasn't going to go over well, but I was already annoyed from the start by that "go away if you're not happy."
7/ Then it became a jumbled mess of discussion, with people pretending to want something inaccurate, etc., etc., as if they were trying to protect Cliff from who-knows-what, even though it wasn't particularly malicious to begin with. I mean, if saying thank you is awkward, and if now we can't even raise a finger to denounce something, what's the point of this topic or forum? Lock the forums from the start if you don't want any echo.
As someone in the crowd pointed out, there are already fewer and fewer interventions. Which isn't surprising, given how quickly things escalate if you say anything.
Well … nothing tragic ……
