Wish Screensaver

FEATURE: "SceneSavers"
Download and save screensavers in one of 32 (?) slots.
Each scene in each preset can be "associated" with a screensaver from one of the screensaver slots.
Each screensaver can have up to 4 customizable parameters which have default values saved in the screensaver slot.
When associating a screensaver with a scene, one can set override-values for the 4 parameters.
Each screensaver can receive input from Modifiers, plus pitch detection and signal levels at inputs and outputs.
Whoever codes the screensaver can have it react to the values of the modifiers, pitch, inputs, outputs, as desired.
Screensaver code is written against an API for communicating with the Axe Fx (e.g. receiving modifier streams) and a handful of small, well-known graphics libraries for development ease.

EXAMPLE:
Mr. T. Hans Tumach, a style-sensitive guitar player in Germany, has a preset he uses for a particular song, with 4 scenes: One for the Verses, one for the Choruses, and two for the two sections of the Guitar Solo, respectively. (The guitar solo was written in imitation of Petrucci's "Lines in the Sand" solo, with a bluesy quiet intro followed by a more shredtastic climax, necessitating the two scenes.)

(His first initial is short for "Tymanus," a family name. He's listed in the phone directories as Tumach, Tymanus Hans, 555-1234.)

He downloads various SceneSavers -- flying toasters, romping anime cats, moire patterns, crossfading photo montages, fire animations, and swirling psychedelic patterns -- and installs them into slots in his Axe FX III.

Editing his preset, he selects some moody-looking crossfading photo montages for the Verse scene, and a moire pattern for the Chorus. The moire usually shows up with lots of rainbow colors, but he overrides that setting at the scene level, selecting a mix of green and gold. For the bluesy part of the guitar solo, he selects a swirling psychedelic pattern using (what else?) blue colors. For the scorching lead at the end, he switches to an animated fire SceneSaver.

He's pleased-as-punch with this arrangement, and his bandmates admire it during rehearsals.

At the gig, of course, nobody in the audience notices: The screen is too small to be clearly seen from anywhere other than the first few rows.

After the gig, Hans posts in the Fractal Audio Forums asking for a new version of the Axe FX III with an HDMI out, that he can hook up to the projector-screen behind the drummer.

Cliff shakes his head and wishes he'd never gone down that road....

;)

P.S. my next post may feature recipes for cuisine based on surplus Irish children
 
+1 various types of selectable audio visualizer screen savers...doubles as a lock screen...value knob becomes a dial lock to unlock it...

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