The real reason why forums and social media groups are engaged in a desperate plea for touch screens on Fractal Audio products

Maybe In the future FAS will put out iOS and android apps so people can edit on phones and tablets. That would be nice. So the new effects box has just a display I take it? From a marketing standpoint a touchscreen would make sense as long as it can be locked and still have the other options for adjustment. I’m not a big fan of touchscreens but don’t hate them. If touchscreens are what the market wants then why not?
 
Well... I have an opinion....
I don't care about a touch screen on the Axe FX... To me it'd be pointless.
Having said that, My phones, my coffee machine, my iPads, My cars, My Boat, hell, even my motorcycle all have touch screens. There may just be something in that!

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Pauly
 
After 6 years with Ax8 --> FM3, I bought a refurbished 129 Euro laptop which I only use for tweaking the FM3 at gigs/rehearsal...

I wish I did it 6 years ago.

Priceless control.
 
There are some activities which benefit from touch screens. There are some which don’t. For me FX gear is in the second group. I’m either configuring it using a PC, and consequently touchscreens are irrelevant, or I’m making changes on the fly at a gig in a situation where tactile feedback from knobs and buttons is important.
 
This is going to read like a grand generalization, but I have found that here in North America, Gen Y and Boomers have the worst cases of digital dementia and are so addicted to their phones that it rules their lives.

Gen X, Gen Z and the Alpha generation have largely come to the conclusive perspective that social media and the internet are very damaging to your state of mind, and your ability to feel a sense of inner peace. Many people in these generations have created their own set of rules to limit their "screen time" and exposure to the madness of the internet.
 
Bob G said:
Boomers have the worst cases of digital dementia and are so addicted to their phones that it rules their lives.
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Boomers like me spent 1/2 our lives with no interenet, no cell phones, many years with no home computing, many years with just a handfull of TV channels - heck during much of my childhood we had 1 black and white TV with rabbit ears n 3 channels, and one home phone with no answering machine and a party line (google it). (o ya, and of course we walked 2 miles to grade school every day in snow up to our necks, ..., uphill, ..., in both directions, ..., without a touque, ..., and with a hole in one boot ...).

So, ya eh!, we're like kids in a candy store now days n gettin more digtally demented by the minute whohoo!🤪
 
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I'm going out on a limb here but people that like touch screens probably already have a device with that tech. For years I've thought a FAS visual app native for IOS and Android devices is the way to go. Wired and non-wired options. I'm not interested in a device that sits on the floor with a touch screen that I would never touch during a gig, at home the computer editor is the way to go. However an iPad on a stand linked (wired or wireless) would be pretty amazing. @AlGrenadine has a nice app... Maybe FAS should hire him to develop an official product?
 
sprint said:
Boomers like me spent 1/2 our lives with no interenet, no cell phones, many years with no home computing, many years with just a handfull of TV channels - heck during much of my childhood we had 1 black and white TV with rabbit ears n 3 channels, and one home phone with no answering machine and a party line (google it). (o ya, and of course we walked 2 miles to grade school every day in snow up to our necks, ..., uphill, ..., in both directions, ..., without a touque, ..., and with a hole in one boot ...).

So, ya eh!, we're like kids in a candy store now days n gettin more digtally demented by the minute whohoo!🤪
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All the tech is slowly devolving us into cavemen.
 
Yeah... string up a dried gourd with some catgut for real authentic tone....

My comment wasn't aimed at guitar tech... communication, information, $$$ (and the control of) is taking us places.
 
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