When do you predict the next Fractal Audio Axe iteration will drop, now that they've stated that it will be NAM-compatible? (Poll added)

[nightlight]

Adding a poll, but some of the posts really made me wonder what direction Fractal Audio might take.
I mean, look at the FM9, it's an awesome form factor on the floor like that. Dare we assume that it might be some kind of floorboard unit?

I know that the FM9 less powerful than an Axe FXIII, but if you look at the Quad Cortex, it is definitely possible to have a really tiny package with tonnes of processing power.

 

[nightlight]

Another thing I'd be really interested in is whether the NAM-compatible profiles can be edited with deep controls like the conventional amps that have been captured, and as is the case with the modeller-approach Axe FX suite of products.

 

[Frodebro]

Another thing I'd be really interested in is whether the NAM-compatible profiles can be edited with deep controls like the conventional amps that have been captured, and as is the case with the modeller-approach Axe FX suite of products.

It would be possible to do some generic, basic stuff but it wouldn’t give you results accurate to how the original amp would respond to those tweaks-unless every component to be tweaked was programmed into the algorithm for each specific amp. Which is one of the biggest differences between captures/profiles and component-based modeling. Captures are a snapshot of a specific amp at specific settings.