Let’s face it :
- super input actually reduces the aliasing to approach the best modelers oversampling levels
- but at a cost of TREMENDOUSLY more training time and recording
- Steve A doesn’t mind at all, and most of the community is thinking the same except DLC86, Francois and some scientists lost int the group
- aliasing at those levels is impossible to ear, even with A/B testing
- Francois is now banned of the nam group (and it was a great contributor, drama queen dude but funny) and he now tries to make his own NAM HD 96KHz (will need a 4k$ pc!!) in a new group on Facebook. That will probably ends up with nothing but some obscure graphics.
- nam is great but it’s an open source free plugin and it’s not as reliable as ToneX or Quad Cortex, and it’s NEVER be at the level of an axefx for the quality of amp. Steve is not building a team so it will also end up like a student project.
I wait for kemper NN or new big names bringing true innovation, but also A GOOD PRODUCT.
For now nothing beats Line 6 Helix and ToneX because they offer plugin + pedals and have a huge user base.
NAM is more like the 2000’s free metal plugins I played with. It’s cool for practicing at home.
Absolute garbage take, sorry to be so upfront. NAM is considered among the entire community the best in class, and will remain so for long, long time, because setting up the hardware is expensive and will hurt financially, except if some big player comes along and smahes processing power until no end in their next generation modeler. But even then, NAM will perhaps more likely will be embedded as an industry standard than anything else.
By the way, Francois was not a main contributor, but actually a very toxic and unknowing person spitting his misinformation around. He had this weird perception of anti-aliasing being the absolute worst enemy, which is total bullshit. He spammed multiple groups with his warfare against aliasing, and while at first I thought there was merit to it, but it was in the end cringe-inducing. Some of the others interested in reducing aliasing actually distanced himself it seems. He tried to ban me from his Neural Amp LABS group, to, guess what, I was reinvited.
But the worst was that he posted every.single.step in any group he could find. Even in the NAM Player group, which is totally unrelated, as the NAM Player seems to do it's own conversion of the NAM file, leading again to that weird artefacts being reintroduced.
I myself made a video in his superinput, and given what a weird dude he is, I am
seriously considering removing that video from my channel, as I want no affiliation with this person, and to be fair, it is only slightly more efficient in reducing aliasing, but brings a whole can of worms (possible latency issues, longer training time, more customization, deviation from standards which are well established).
Francois was a hack, and it's good he got cast out of the community. By the way, he is constantly creating more and more profiles, like Lucy Stein, and on a forum he also posts as Audio Transformer, I heard...
... ... ... WAIT A MINUTE! ;-)
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. What would people have preferred?, Him scaling up a team and NAM becoming another bluguitar... taking a punt on a new company building out hardware and an entire ecosystem? Instant subscription models to suddenly fund this team of people working at NAM? All of his high level movements massively make sense to me, all of this is no surprise. I think if anything the naysayers will be surprised with what unfolds with NAM.
