Axe-Fx III Firmware 31.03 Release

Whoa, the pitch shifter, to my ears, is the best it's been yet. For single notes and power chords I always felt it was great, even years ago, but the test for me is always with, of course, anything more harmonically challenging than an octave, fifth, or fourth. The best test to me is to play arpeggiated chords that traverse all the strings, especially with some speed. This is so much better than before. For slowly arpeggiated stuff, like the intro to A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater, I'm getting shockingly great results! I'm truly blown away you were able to achieve this without having to do something like dedicating a processor to it.

Many thanks for the improvement; the Axe-FX III somehow is still getting better all the time.
 
State of Epicicity said:
Whoa, the pitch shifter, to my ears, is the best it's been yet. For single notes and power chords I always felt it was great, even years ago, but the test for me is always with, of course, anything more harmonically challenging than an octave, fifth, or fourth. The best test to me is to play arpeggiated chords that traverse all the strings, especially with some speed. This is so much better than before. For slowly arpeggiated stuff, like the intro to A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater, I'm getting shockingly great results! I'm truly blown away you were able to achieve this without having to do something like dedicating a processor to it.

Many thanks for the improvement; the Axe-FX III somehow is still getting better all the time.
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I think it's excellent now but I don't want to celebrate just yet.
 
For anyone who uses the pitch block a lot, one thing I always do is set the detector souce to Input 1; I find that always to yield better results than forcing the algorithm to deal with whatever I've done to process the signal before that, as Block In would. Maybe there's a good use case for Block In, like an EQ curve that works better for a shifter? I don't know, but in my experience the detector source makes a signifcant difference.
 
FractalAudio said:
I think it's excellent now but I don't want to celebrate just yet.
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I think the biggest place where you can still hear an artifact is if you play something like the intro to Civil War by Guns 'n Roses; that ringing open G string is where you'll really hear it, but I don't know how far you can really go with any pitch shifter for something like that.
 
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