I’m going to put the same thing here I commented on their product video for this pedal. I dislike how many of the effects and parameters in the pedal are hidden and only accessible through the app. I haven’t used the HX One, which feels like the closest competition, but my understanding is all the effects parameters in the HX One are available on the pedal without messing with Bluetooth phone connections that TC to this point still hasn’t gotten right, or long USB cables from a PC to the pedalboard just to change an effect out. They even say in their product launch video the pedal is preloaded with certain effects in the slots and you have to use the app to change them out.
I had a Plethora X3 for a while, and I thought the effects in it were decent. However when I saw how deep you could go, like turning a compressor into an overdrive pedal by messing with the EQ curve in app, it was disheartening these parameters were simply not available to edit in the pedal itself.
I’m not just speaking of this pedal but really the whole Plethora line. If the competition, Fractal, Eventide, and Line 6 can make their pedals basically fully functional from either the pedal or the app, why can’t TC? They have powerful algorithms but if you never connected the pedal to a PC you’d never know it.