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IK Multimedia Tone X One?
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Sascha Franck
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Mini pedal to replace my Amplifirebox MkI (which I'm always only using one sound from anyway) - not bad!
But how can you go through the amp models on the device?
But how can you go through the amp models on the device?
Boudoir Guitar
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Makes me wonder if Christoph maybe had a pretty good idea that capturing/profiling would eventually be more of a commodity item all along and why he never wanted to come out with a Kemper II.
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I'm still cracking up that a company that had plugins out before Line6 did STILL doesn't have a full featured pedalboard to run Amplitube
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[Nathan]
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They even had this, always grazing the target and never quite hitting it
I too found that puzzling until I remembered they're a company that essentially sells software/hardware vending machines that are just a portal to their various "custom shops" with a la carte microtransaction add-ons galore. So how would it behoove them to give people a flagship all-in-one? Or free aftermarket updates like their competitors in that segment?
IK Multimedia's corporate ethos is "Nickel-and-dime or GTFO".
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It would be a goldmine. You are stuck on this hardware and it has all these pedals and stuff sitting there saying “model not available until purchased”. Teasing you until you spent five billion unlocking everything
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"You have run out of Riff Coins! Purchase more Riff Coins to keep playing your Tonex!"
$179.99 - Est. ship date 05-14-24.
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Hm. Unlike the big pedal, this might become a must-have for me, of course depending on how easy it is to browse through the loaded captures - maybe they have a mobile editor that you can connect via USB? That'd be quite nice (great feature of the NUX Amp Academy, fwiw).
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Its IK, so the answer is of course "who gives a shit?"
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Manual here: https://g1.ikmultimedia.com/html/Manuals/TONEXONE/TONEX_ONE_User_Manual.pdf
They've packed a lot of options in there considering how few controls the thing has, so good job IK for that at least.
IMO the "lock" and "setup" functions for pressing ALT for 3 vs 6 seconds should be reversed. I can bet a lot of people will end up accidentally locking the pedal.
With no mention of MIDI control, this will most likely be a pedal that annoys people over time because it's so small and those tiny knobs will be a bit of a pain in the ass. IMO this didn't need to be this small and a Boss sized pedal would have been fine and still a massive improvement over the big Tonex.
They've packed a lot of options in there considering how few controls the thing has, so good job IK for that at least.
IMO the "lock" and "setup" functions for pressing ALT for 3 vs 6 seconds should be reversed. I can bet a lot of people will end up accidentally locking the pedal.
With no mention of MIDI control, this will most likely be a pedal that annoys people over time because it's so small and those tiny knobs will be a bit of a pain in the ass. IMO this didn't need to be this small and a Boss sized pedal would have been fine and still a massive improvement over the big Tonex.
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My thougths: it's a cool little pedal and for that price I'll probably pick one up cuz it would allow me to carry around captures of my FM9's favourite amps in my pocket.
But, overall I think a half-way product between this and the regular tonex pedal would have been the sweet spot for many. Housing it in a classic B or BB enclosure would have allowed them to put things like full sized knobs for the controls, separate jacks for stereo out and headphones, midi I/O, a rotary switch/encoder to select presets/models, less hidden functions and parameters and maybe even a little display.
And it would have been a much more usable product with no need to make two separate versions.
PS: and being IK Multimedia, I won't be surprised if such a product comes out in 6 months from now anyway.
But, overall I think a half-way product between this and the regular tonex pedal would have been the sweet spot for many. Housing it in a classic B or BB enclosure would have allowed them to put things like full sized knobs for the controls, separate jacks for stereo out and headphones, midi I/O, a rotary switch/encoder to select presets/models, less hidden functions and parameters and maybe even a little display.
And it would have been a much more usable product with no need to make two separate versions.
PS: and being IK Multimedia, I won't be surprised if such a product comes out in 6 months from now anyway.
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TONEX sounds pretty awesome so, at ~$180, it's worth on that alone. But, if you're looking for a great software experience... you might want to buy something else.
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