laxu
Fractal Fanatic
Needs improvement. The new shortcut functions helped a lot but I am not overly fond of its layout that is almost the same as the first gen Axe-Fx. It was never a "don’t fix what isn’t broken" type thing. To me the placement of buttons around the big knob is not great and removing the Axe-Fx 2‘s dedicated shortcut buttons made it worse if anything. The best improvement was moving the knobs under the display.
If I was to rearrange the current control panel, I would swap the navigation and big knob section positions so that there’s less hand movement needed between under the screen knobs and nav/page keys. The controls you use the most. Home and Edit would go under the big knob, above Enter/Exit.
But overall the issues with the onboard UI are not the hardware as much as the software and that is something Fractal can fix. Plenty of suggestions big and small on wishlists for all models. I am not talking about some huge overhaul but small improvements in many places make a river.
If I was to rearrange the current control panel, I would swap the navigation and big knob section positions so that there’s less hand movement needed between under the screen knobs and nav/page keys. The controls you use the most. Home and Edit would go under the big knob, above Enter/Exit.
But overall the issues with the onboard UI are not the hardware as much as the software and that is something Fractal can fix. Plenty of suggestions big and small on wishlists for all models. I am not talking about some huge overhaul but small improvements in many places make a river.