ruso
Fractal Fanatic
Sold.
Sold.
...making room in my space for it nowNote the “product” is in singular though, if history is an indication that’ll be a rack unit probably.Sold.
I won’t speak for Cliff, but in this context, the word “product” can be used as plural, such as a product line, or in this case, the next generation of product.
He also used plural in the earlier comment
Some of the new features, NAM for instance, need next gen hardware, so do they can't be back-ported to the now-current generation. Others, we'll have to wait and see, depends on both technical feasibility and company focus.
Last time, IIRC, previous gen wasn’t supposed to get the new modeling, but after some backlash they gave up and ported it there. So support was extended for a while.
I think we can’t ask a company to keep updating and adding features for years after releasing a new product line. FAS is pretty generous in that manner but they’ll have to focus on the new gen for sure.
I don't expect FAS to be head's deep on legacy products. It's just good practice to keep supporting expensive equipment to some time until production and warranty totally expires. Competition is fierce nowadays.I think we can’t ask a company to keep updating and adding features for years after releasing a new product line. FAS is pretty generous in that manner but they’ll have to focus on the new gen for sure.
They use to update their side products (software) to keep the hardware running properly but they don’t need to keep offering new candy stuff to old devices… for guy who purchased an AxefxIII day one, he had nearly a decade of great and innovative updates/free upgrades. You can’t ask for more without extra cost I believe. Spending 3k even for 8 years of continuous updates is pretty cheap imo. About 30$/month! I spent more on stupid archeplugins and stuff I never use
You’re conflating new features with support. Even Fractal’s nearly-20-year-old legacy products are still supported.
lol!, never considered him usually grumpy - but warranted sometimes maybe
Well that’s not how I remember last time at all. To my memory, the announcement was that it’s impossible to fit new modeling in, and it’s out of the question. Then after some whining it became possible to fit it in and it was fit in, so previous gen lived with updated algos for a while.
I bought the Axe-FX III sooner than I should have, so had it sitting at home for months and still gigging with the II because some important things weren’t implemented in the beginning (don’t remember all of them exactly now). But back then I was using a rack unit anyway, it made sense because all of the band equipment was in a rack and connecting stuff was just way easier this way.
This is an all-new platform. Standard IRs (including Dyna-Cabs) will be 170 ms long (user adjustable if you want shorter). Ultra-Res has be deprecated as it's no longer needed.
