Fractal Talk

[GTR37]

Like hating the fact that a product you don't own got an update.

exactly , Pissed me right off when the Ford Escape got heated seats

 

[iaresee]

The only thing weirder than people talking on a forum is people talking on a forum about how people on another forum talk on that forum.

 

[GTR37]

The ndsp one is “just” passable to me for metalcore, I have to crank the boost pedals to compensate what the transpose is doing to the feel of the signal

XS-1 is probably the best pedal I’ve ever tried for that thing, I’d still crank a boost a bit for the same thing

Polychrome hypertune and hypertune metal is the best I’ve tried for plugins, hypertune metal has the boost right there which is convenient cause I don’t have to change the existing patches.

But yeah they’re all weird in their own way it’s just “what’s acceptable”. I’d never want to commit to a proper recording with this stuff but for gigging and demos it’s passable

re pitch shifting I think Fractal is around 7 ms and its not poly. the new hot tone Freqlux poly shifter about to be released is claims latency number of 5 ms or just under , that said did they trade tracking for audible artifcts though?

it might be a cool product to add to you AM4 if you really must have pitch fx though

 

[laxu]

I actually wish they had just a "use two block slots" type "heavy" effect to allow the AM4 to have all the fx the VP4 has. Like I could sacrifice a block to have Pitch or Multitap in many situations. Similar to how e.g Line6 Helix pitch shift takes a lot of CPU but can be done if you sacrifice other blocks.

 

[Orvillain]

The only thing weirder than people talking on a forum is people talking on a forum about how people on another forum talk on that forum.

Yeah but in fairness The Fretboard is full of arseholes who can't even play guitar, so.....

 

[la szum]

Seriously, I’m legit baffled that people are impressed with Fractal’s pitch shifting, Line 6, Drop pedals, XS-1, etc. even the NDSP, while yes, very good in comparison, sounds weird and icky, like playing a sample of a guitar, not a guitar. Just MHO.

Yup. I remember having to live with the Morpheus way back in the 2000s. .

 

[RiffDuck]

exactly , Pissed me right off when the Ford Escape got heated seats

Nobody heats my rectum without my consent! Nobody!

 

[Stone]

Yes

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Well I didn't buy it...yet But the GAS is fermenting lol

 

[FuzzyAce]

the international waters of gear talk

Dang, that needs to be on the website header.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Well I didn't buy it...yet But the GAS is fermenting lol

 

[RiffDuck]

Dang, that needs to be on the website header.

 

[GTR37]

The only thing weirder than people talking on a forum is people talking on a forum about how people on another forum talk on that forum.

The simply amazing part of this whole thread is the amount of NDSP haters that have been converted

Whizzinby was the first , he actually ironically started the thread at the TOP that spurned this place and got many of us banned
he has a mini

Orvillian who did have a fairly strong dislike , just bought his 3rd one

Stone, who is a die hard Fractalite is on the fence with a strong temptatiuon to jump over

Jiveturkey. who absolutely hate NDSP has stated for the record , If that damn QC mini was available I would have one

and Me after owning one in the early days. I just cancelled my Stadium order and am thinking about the mini

LIKe WTF @mbenigni what kind of dark sorcery are you involved in

 

[RiffDuck]

The simply amazing part of this whole thread is the amount of NDSP haters that have been converted

Whizzinby was the first , he actually ironically started the thread at the TOP that spurned this place and got many of us banned
he has a mini

Orvillian who did have a fairly strong dislike , just bought his 3rd one

Stone, who is a die hard Fractalite is on the fence with a strong temptatiuon to jump over

Jiveturkey. who absolutely hate NDSP has stated for the record , If that damn QC mini was available I would have one

and Me after owning one in the early days. I just cancelled my Stadium order and am thinking about the mini

LIKe WTF @mbenigni what kind of dark sorcery are you involved in

I think it’s a good thing, competition breeds innovation!

Kemper made the mistake of coasting by thinking they’d be the only profiler forever. I certainly don’t see Fractal doing the same, now that they’re definitely not the only popular modeler.

 

[Orvillain]

The simply amazing part of this whole thread is the amount of NDSP haters that have been converted

Whizzinby was the first , he actually ironically started the thread at the TOP that spurned this place and got many of us banned
he has a mini

Orvillian who did have a fairly strong dislike , just bought his 3rd one

Stone, who is a die hard Fractalite is on the fence with a strong temptatiuon to jump over

Jiveturkey. who absolutely hate NDSP has stated for the record , If that damn QC mini was available I would have one

and Me after owning one in the early days. I just cancelled my Stadium order and am thinking about the mini

LIKe WTF @mbenigni what kind of dark sorcery are you involved in

You've just listed at least two of the sexiest posters around here, and I'm one of them.

 

[Stone]

Stone, who is a die hard Fractalite is on the fence with a strong temptatiuon to jump over

To be fair you've never heard me bad talk the product i may have made fun of the company practices like the "Soon" BS but never the hardware itself, and yes I am die hard Fractal Fan and love it, but I'm not a fanatic or zealot about it
Will I buy a QC? That remains to be seen as it would not be a primary device, but who knows maybe one day.

Maybe the QC/Mini is drawing more attention of late because Platform has reached maturity with some notable updates
and it offers 3 Separate technologies in one smaller form factor, like Modeling, Captures and now PCOM
The QC hardware has improved as well with some chip revisions, and well the wall wart was always a bad design to begin with and really if one has issues with the wall wart there are solutions out there.