How long before Smart Phones do this?

[KingsXJJ]

You download your AxeFX-X as an app and your phone runs it. Everything connects to your guitar and whatever speaker/cab/headphones wirelessly.
Come on Quantum iPhone!

Or they use cloud computing and AI to crunch it in data centers… latency though.

Then we can argue about whether it sounds like the “processor in the room.”

 

[paisleywookiee]

You download your AxeFX-X as an app and your phone runs it. Everything connects to your guitar and whatever speaker/cab/headphones wirelessly.
Come on Quantum iPhone!

Or they use cloud computing and AI to crunch it in data centers… latency though.

Then we can argue about whether it sounds like the “processor in the room.”

ToneX on an iPhone already sounds pretty good.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

You download your AxeFX-X as an app and your phone runs it. Everything connects to your guitar and whatever speaker/cab/headphones wirelessly.
Come on Quantum iPhone!

Or they use cloud computing and AI to crunch it in data centers… latency though.

Then we can argue about whether it sounds like the “processor in the room.”

I don’t think the reason it’s not a thing yet has anything to do with iPhone’s not being powerful enough or needing quantum computing or cloud processing. How much would you spend on such an app (check the average price of most iOS plugins). and predict how long it would take for it to get hacked and shared for free. and then predict all the question marks about inputs and outputs, latency, running it on different models, updates when stuff changes.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

I run logic (multitrack daw) with half decent stock amps sims, verbs and delays…on a lowest tier iPad,
The wireless thing is a bit tricky probably, but my guess is that current phones have plenty of cpu power to proces guitar sounds…maybe even the posh ones.

Question is…who’s gonna deliver the code…and more importantly….why…how’s fractal/kemper/l6 gonna make money from it? Let’s assume 1/3 of the value of a modeler is its code….no one is gonna pay that for an app on a device without IOs / connections.
Maybe if there’s hardware with IO available in which you can dock your phone as brains…

 

[paisleywookiee]

We already have Helix Native/Tonex/Amplitube 5/Neural plugins etc on laptops. We're just slightly pivoting to phones/tablets, which are still capable of running the same software at this point. It just has to be ported. There are some really, really expensive apps on iPadOS/iOS. So it's feasible there too.

 

[Aelred]

I work in IT - and loathe the things esp smart phones. I expect it's either already there or thereabouts without checking too far.

I don't want my phone, or my sunglasses or refridgerator spying on me 24x7 and on-selling details.

YMMV

 

[QQQ]

ToneX on an iPhone already sounds pretty good.

Was very impressed with it too!

 

[[Nathan]]

I would have thought something like this would already be popular (probably just too expensive). Heck even this would be a great solution for running NAM on an iOS device. You kind of need a spare phone or tablet as well so the price adds up. I think the idea has merit but maybe it’s just ahead of its time for now.

 

[laxu]

Mobile operating systems are already problematic for real-time audio where especially Android is afaik not great for latency, while iOS is better.

iOS on the other hand is artificially handicapped by Apple in so many ways that it just loves to kill background tasks and limit multitasking. I have completely given up on iPadOS because it is clearly never becoming a proper thing rather than an oversized phone operating system.

On top of that the constant updates to both platforms means the developer of the "Axe-Fx mobile" would have to constantly keep up with these changes, more than they would for e.g Windows or MacOS updates. Plus you'd have to jump through the "app review" processes of Google and Apple, which can honestly be a bit of a pain in the ass if any issues arise.

For wireless, latency is again the big issue. Having e.g a wireless footswitch on the floor is totally doable, but wireless audio from guitar -> phone/tablet -> output system would be too much. So unless there's a breakthrough in wireless systems, it's not happening.