Hopefully....I'm going to eat some crow (Fender Tonemaster Pro content)

You would think that a Fender modeling product like this would be sold at least partially as being able to step through Fender's history, and it's definitely not lost on me that, for example, the Stadium's Agoura amps at launch alone do a better job of that than the TMP did at launch.
Exactly! You get the Fender modeler and find it is behind...on Fenders!? And it still is, two years later, because the pace of adding models is positively glacial - in part because they have so much feature catch up and cleanup to do. The other reason being the perverse pride they seem to take in saying that adding models takes them an enormous amount of time.

Maybe that big December update will fix some of this!
I'd love for that to be true, but I'd strongly bet against it. I suspect one or two Fender amps, maybe including a "blonde" Twin that only represents another Tone Master amp, and the faithful stridently berating anyone who thinks it ought to have more. They're building quite a fanboy base of their own in that Discord, though it hasn't gotten to Kemper levels of toxicity by a longshot.
 
I should be clear that I've kept my TMP for well over a year at this point. It is a good device, one I use for about a third to a half of my practice time. I like it, and I am not surprised that it has found a niche. I am just personally frustrated that they have a slow update cadence and so much to catch up on. It's hard to imagine them ever getting out of catch up mode long enough to distinguish themselves on anything other than the skeuomorphic interface that is nice in some ways, but not (to me at least) especially compelling for anything but the most simple signal chains once you get over the shiny newness. It's hard to imagine the amp selection will be distinctive in a good way when they lean so vocally on the notion that modeling a single channel of an amp (not counting any on board effects, which are critical to include, IMO, to maximize the value of the interface) takes three months, as though that provides artisanal cred or something. All I hear is "it'll take nine months to have both inputs of both channels of the DR available, or a whole year to cover all four input/channel combinations on a Vibrolux Reverb, if we ever offer that," and it's a bummer to me - specifically because they're Fender.
 
I'm gonna have to hard disagree. I have both, Love them both, but my I find the tonemaster to be just as good as the helix for most things and far better for some things then my helix floor.

I love my helix and theres something about it that I can't just bring myself to sell it, but I play the tonemaster more, even after 2 years of ownership.
Wow that says alot. Would love to hear the tmp vs the stadium in amps and effects that are similar.
I’m sure they’ll be some guys who have the TMP that will get to helix stadium and definitely be posting about their thoughts
 
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