I think a lot of people would like to see a library of effects blocks that emulate specific pedals (with a guide for how to adjustment it to match the original pedal's adjustment possibilities). For example, many people have asked for a model of the Klon, and a few people have offered up ways to emulate it. But where do you go (besides doing a search) to find the settings? Plus just having the block to import would be handy. I think a library of effects listed by the pedal name it is emulating would be a very popular thing. A lot of people here have been willing to share these settings, so I don't think there needs to be a charge for it. Just a library of them would be nice.
“Problem” though is that often when someone goes and does the effort for others it’s because they hope to get compensation for the effort. That isn’t bad per say, but if someone goes though all the factory presets and saves the blocks and then asks $29 for it or whatever, are they really selling something they should have the right to sell? If all they did was take an existing setting and save it as a block file, did they create anything ?
If someone else shares a preset with that block name, is that as “wrong” as sharing a preset with a custom IR?
I think it just opens a big can of worms, and either people feeling someone is ripping people off selling renamed effects blocks, or someone will feel their hard work is being stolen whenever we talk about settings in other threads.
I think a big part of it too is we just want the familiar warm fuzzy feeling of seeing the right words on a block type
We like that there is CE2 Japan in the Chorus block more than we like seeing a generic analog mono flanger. Now if someone goes and takes that setting and calls is 18v mistress, suddenly we feel it’s better, the Axe now is worth more becasue it’s got a model of a $500+ rare pedal, but in reality it’s still just words and a label.
At the same time, how many of near the same thing is too many? Do we need a ce2, and a sch1, and a fx60, and a cool cat, and a voodoo lab chorus etc? When they are all essentially the same circuit with mn3002 chips and you can slightly adjust the knobs on one to sound like the others ?
Then if you pay for 20 chorus blocks are you really getting 20 unique models or are you getting just a bunch of minor tweaks of 20 versions of the same circuit ?
I think what we really need moving forward is more specific modeling of actual circuits, so it’s not just tweaked parameters of a common base, but adding in unique things to the algorithms and modeling.
For example, if there was a way to pay $29 and get new fuzz pedal emulations, adding controls for things like voltage starving, translators hfe controls etc, where you could do new and unique stuff, it would be worth every penny. Your not paying for someone to tell you how to set the knobs, your paying for new control parameters!
Of course there isn’t any option for 3rd party modeling blocks etc, but I think that would be pretty cool as far as effects goes. Highly unlikely but still would be cool to have a platform that is kind of like a DAW is to VST’s, where you can load a given companies tske on what an effect should be. Again, not realistic for tons of reasons but still would be cool to actually buy a given brands algo and run a Eventide h9 effect inside the Axe.