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    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    Audio in the video is mono. Was it meant to be stereo?
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    Input 1 gate vs using a Decimator.

    Exactly. Running line level and not into Input 1 would make sense here. There seems to be some confusion in this thread re @joesatch's setup. Assuming the gain staging is consistent when either the ISP and/or the Axe are added in line after the rack preamp, then both the ISP and the Axe III...
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    Input 1 gate vs using a Decimator.

    Try the Axe's gate in Classic mode instead and see if that gives you a better response. Is the goal to gate the post preamp signal of the high gain preamp to then process in the Axe III for post preamp fx and Cab modelling? Or are you trying to use the Axe just for the gating? I find that for...
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    Wish Pitch block: open tunings

    Once you've got a hex pickup installed on the guitar, this would simply require a future Fractal product to have.. a 13 Pin input capability in addition to the current I/O, plus 6 instances of the Tone Match block to model various guitars and pickup positions per string, and 6 instances of the...
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    Synth block tracking

    Yep. Another workaround instead of feeding the Synth Block a Pitch Block octave up signal is to split the bass singal before it hits the Axe and run one split into a bass whammy set one octave up and then feed that to the Synth block (set one octave down) via one input on the Axe, and the other...
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    Looking for a small hardware unit that can replicate the Axe's envelope controlleri

    Hi all I'm looking for a small hardware unit that can replcate the Axe's envelope controller. I'd like to expand the Axe's envelope control by running external audio sources as extra envelope controllers into the expression pedal inputs. I've tried the Copilot Autodialer but need something...
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    Wish Ability to control Virtual Capo semitone steps up/down with external foot switch

    You should be able to control the semitone values of Virtual Capo via midi CC using an external Midi controller. You could programme an RJM Mastermind GT or LT to do this..you would just need to work out what the corresponding CC values are for each semitone by testing every CC value out and...
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    Hi Rusty. Sorry i'm no longer selling the Switchblade 8F as i've changed my setup.

    Hi Rusty. Sorry i'm no longer selling the Switchblade 8F as i've changed my setup.
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    How about a fractal light ?

    I would love to see a modular Fractal pedal that could function either on it's own or as an additional piece to add more fx blocks to existing Fractal devices (eg for those who want more Pitch blocks etc). No Amp or Cab blocks, just all the Fractal effects. It would be awesome if you could...
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    IEM Sound Shaping

    Are you able to record your IEM mix so you can compare the way that mix sounds on your studio monitors vs the Axe direct into the studio monitors? Also have you compared your IEM earbuds with a good pair of headphones, both running from the IEM transmitter? Regardless of whether your IEMs...
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    Will running the axe before a tube amp be ''better'' for tone than running in FX loop?

    The only way to find out if you hear or feel a difference is by testing the Axe III in 4CM and recording the results. Once just the amp, once just Axe in the front, once just Axe in the back, and once in 4CM, paying close attention to the gain staging with each connection. I would say that the...
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    Wish Pickup modeling

    Yep exactly, and both of these work best if you feed them a piezo signal. As mentioned above the best way to do pickup modelling (and pickup position modelling) is with a polyphonic pickup and a VG-99, SY-1000, Line 6 Variax, Autotune For Guitar or similar. If you listen closely to both the...
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    250$ for Metallica Black Album Preset

    Exactly. @MrBurns666 if you want the exact sound, either use the Tone Match block after your Amp block without any Cab block at all or if this is just for recording, record your raw Amp block sound without any Cab block, and then use Fab Filter's Pro Q in Match Eq mode. Avoiding any kind of...
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    Wish Envelope follower improvements

    It would also be great be able to send the Envelope out as a Midi CC to control external gear.
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    Wish modifer: more envelope follower please

    @challtag Try Bakerman's excellent workaround using ADSR: https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/how-to-set-adsr-to-behave-like-envelope-to-set-up-a-volume-ducker.188811/#post-2345144
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    Wish Advanced Virtual Capo

    I think Admin M@ means the GP-10 for alternate tunings (not the GT-10) and yep, a hex pickup is the only way to change tunings digitally in real time . I would go for a used VG-99 as the GP-10 is known to have some glitches with alternate tunings. The other way to do it is to run each string...
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    Wish axe fx 4 on the floor. Need floor until with the same DSP as rack unit. FM9 form factor

    Pretty wild but also maybe too heavy to be worth it. I would love to see a modular Fractal system one day instead, so you can add as much I/O and fx blocks as you need (eg as many Pitch or Synth or Amp Blocks). One module would have it's limit, and then you could keep adding modules and connect...
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    Wish axe fx 4 on the floor. Need floor until with the same DSP as rack unit. FM9 form factor

    Get in touch with Rik at JBAG. He rehoused an Axe III and FC 12 into one floor unit (scroll down to the "other boards" section in link below): https://jbagproducts.com/pb
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    Bass and guitar at one time?

    No need for two jacks and two cables. I would rewire it as two independent guitars ending at one TRS jack (left output for guitar and right output for bass). Wire one selector to select between the guitar pickups, and the other to select between the bass pickups. Use a TRS to left and right...
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    Wish Synth Block that outputs MIDI over the hardware DIN.

    Yep there will be latency if you try and convert the Synth block to Midi as there is some latency in the Synth block itself. I doubt pitch to Midi will be implemented in this version of the Axe..it's been requested before several times. In any case, to really do guitar pitch to midi properly...
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    Wish Synth Block that outputs MIDI over the hardware DIN.

    @Boomer...using the Axe's USB I/O and an instance of Midi Guitar 2 on a laptop, you can easily achieve what you're after. If you want to go polyphonic without any glitches (Midi Guitar 2 can be glitchy in polyphonic mode), get a GK-3 pickup and a Boss GP-10, and then use the GP-10's per string...
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    Latency to Front of House?

    It must have been your channel on the desk then. Would be great if we could see the show file from the tech.
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    Latency to Front of House?

    @AnswerInfinity a few questions... Did the rest of your monitor mix sound like it was latency free and was your sound arriving late in everyone else's monitor mix? Did the whole FOH mix sound like it was arriving late when you moved over to listen to it or was it just your channel on the desk...
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    Can't get the synth block to track a bass low E (12.09) - ?

    Yes exactly, the Pitch Block is feeding the Synth Block in my example above. Sadly, the Ring Mod in Pitch Tracking mode doesn't track lower than G1 either.
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    Can't get the synth block to track a bass low E (12.09) - ?

    The only way to get the Synth block to track a bass guitar in unison is to run a Pitch block in parallel to your dry bass, and then set that Pitch block to be +1 octave 100% wet, and then feed that Pitch block into the Synth and set the Synth to be -1 Octave. This introduces the latency from the...
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    Wish Bass synth

    Having owned an Syb-5 and pretty much every bass synth pedal (and selling them all), i think the tracking on the Syb-5 for most notes, even though it does "track" down to A0, is pretty glitchy with some latency. It's a totally valid wish for the Axe..i've been asking for it since the Axe II and...
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    Wish Bass synth

    Another cool feature of the C4 is that it allows you to specify the precise pitch tracking range to suit any range you like. I found with that pedal, that limiting the range to the actual available notes of your bass guitar tracked better than increasing that range to also include high guitar...
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    Wish Bass synth

    Yep the pitch tracking simply doesn't work below G1. A more advanced method would be to combine the above with Jam Origin's Midi Bass with a Midi note to CC conversion script, so that: Any notes above G1 on the bass send a CC to engage a second Synth block set to unison, and to mute the...
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    Wish Bass synth

    The synth block doesn't track below around G1 on the low E string of a bass. This has been posted as a Wish several times but the Axe doesn't track pitch lower than that. @Admin M@ is this because when designing both the Axe II and Axe III, tracking below G1 was found to be too slow? The...
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    Wish - 4 LFO's

    + 1
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    Recording two Bass channels

    Exactly
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    Recording two Bass channels

    All sounds good. Yeah i think direct to DI to interface will have less latency from the performance itself than direct to Axe and then to interface, so i reckon the best way to not get the DI late is to either run it DI box to interface or direct to Axe with Axe as aggregate. It's just that...
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    Recording two Bass channels

    @Thenewexhibit is there a specific reason for using the interface after the Axe to record the tracks? You could just use the Axe as the interface to avoid two rounds of conversion for both the DI and Amp Block paths. Another thing to try if your interface is providing a specific sonic benefit...
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    Probably simple - multitrack question

    Could you post a pic of your routing in the Axe III plus all connections of the gear? We could probably make it happen depending on how many of the Ins and Outs you are using, by running one of your stereo returns plus Axe processing to Out 1, a second stereo return plus Axe processing to...
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    Wish Multiple Simultaneous Envelope Controllers & All Inputs as Envelope Sources With L/R/Stereo Selectable

    Would be great to know if this would actually be possible in an update or not..ie if there is room for it in the hardware.
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    AxeFXii XL in two different amps effects loops??

    Ok got it. Super clear and lovely looking rig. Yep Bakerman is indeed the Axe-Master. Have you considered an actual attenuator instead to take care of the too loud volume issue? It's a shame that you're having to slightly "choke" the signal hitting the power stages with a compressor which...
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    AxeFXii XL in two different amps effects loops??

    Also as per Bakerman's post, definitely use the Output block as a balance control instead of the final Vol blocks i suggested above.
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    AxeFXii XL in two different amps effects loops??

    @mike Belanger could you clarify if what you're trying to do is to just have two separate post preamp effects chains, or if what you really want is to run a dual four cable method setup where you can run independent fx chains both pre preamp and post preamp of both your heads? If it's just two...
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    Can you add/change effects to factory presets?

    Are you using Axe Edit or using the front panel?
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    Wish Multiple Simultaneous Envelope Controllers & All Inputs as Envelope Sources With L/R/Stereo Selectable

    In this thread with the help of Bakerman's expertise i was able to make ADSR behave like an additional envelope controller, which is a cool workaround: https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/how-to-set-adsr-to-behave-like-envelope-to-set-up-a-volume-ducker.188811/#post-2345144
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    Wish Three amp blocks

    That would be very cool. As far as more than 2 amps goes in one Axe III, you can easily get it very close by running Drive blocks into Cab blocks. So for example, you could have one Amp block going to a Cab panned hard left, a second Amp block going to a Cab panned hard right, and then one or...
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    How to Set ADSR To Behave Like Envelope To Set Up A Volume Ducker?

    Perfect..it works really well. Thanks very much again @Bakerman! Yeah thanks a lot @GlennO the compressor method is very cool but i needed a very fast (silence or 100% on) setting so the ADSR method did the trick. If Inputs 3 or 4 could be assigned to ADSR 2 in a future firmware update, that...
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    How to Set ADSR To Behave Like Envelope To Set Up A Volume Ducker?

    Brilliant..i'll try this out asap. Thanks so much.
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    Wish Pitch follower - lowest/highest note [also FM9]

    That sounds more like a low/high note priority setting which would require a polyphonic Synth block triggered by the Pitch detector. Again this would be much easier with hex processing OP isn't the "OC-5 on steroids" idea more about having the Synth only on the lowest string? If it also means...
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    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    Also @hippietim do you find that string crosstalk is still low with the modular Cycfi not placed right next to the bridge like a typical GK pickup would be? I know that the Cycfi has the best low level of crosstalk around.
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    Wish Pitch follower - lowest/highest note [also FM9]

    Yeah the main issue with hex-input capability is that all the current hex pickup processors are limited to 6 strings, while the modular Cycfi pickups allow for more than 6 strings. So if a future Axe Fx were to have a 13 pin input, it would then need to have the ability to route around 10 of...
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    the Eventide H90 leak reminds us of how good we have it with FM3

    @fractalz I'd love to see the precise difference in latency for various amounts of pitch shifting down (Axe Pitch Block vs H90's basic Pitch Shifter). The H9/Pitchfactor couldn't do proper polyphonic shifting so i'm very interested to hear this as the Axe III's Pitch Block is excellent.
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    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    Superb. I'm gonna call this the Hax Fx rig. @hippietim when you do post some clips, could you post some of the Cycfi pickup summed to mono then going into a crunch sound? I'd love to hear what the Cycfi sounds like with some eq or filtering to make it to sound more like a regular pickup, as...
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    Wish Pitch follower - lowest/highest note [also FM9]

    Yep. I reckon though that it's not overkill at all if you do it with the hex pickup..it will do exactly what you want, especially for triggering the synth on the low string only. Rather than making the Axe's pitch follower polyphonic (which would still mean not being able to process the audio...
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    How to Set ADSR To Behave Like Envelope To Set Up A Volume Ducker?

    Any ideas guys? I'm sure it can be done with a simple combination of settings.
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    Wish Pitch follower - lowest/highest note [also FM9]

    Assuming you're in standard tuning (ie within the trackable range of the Pitch Follower), you can achieve some of the above with some limitations, and it won't be as good as using a hex pickup (Roland or Cycfi) or a Submarine pickup. The Pitch Follower is monophonic so it'll be limited but...
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    How to Set ADSR To Behave Like Envelope To Set Up A Volume Ducker?

    Hi all I've set up a volume ducker that works as follows: Input 3 is the main signal path with a Vol Block in line. Input 1 is the trigger for the ducker The ducker is achieved by modifying the Vol Block (for In 3) with Envelope (and Input 1 as the Envelope Source). I've dimed the low...
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    Wish modifer: more envelope follower please

    + 1 with all inputs available as Envelope and ADSR sources, so that 3 different inputs could be used as sources simultaneously.
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    Axe III Into Front End Of Real Amp Plus Switchblade 8F In A Loop...Humbuster Cable Question

    Thanks yeah i already know all of that..all good. I'm trying to understand why the Humbuster coming out of the Axe and going into the Marshall only works correctly if pulled out ever so slightly (not pulled out to where the volume jumps up as Cliff mentions in the manual), and why, even if...
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    Making coil splitting work

    Thanks very much yeah i saw your diagram but how would i change that to roll off the outer coil instead?
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    Making coil splitting work

    @GreatGreen for the Spin-a-Split mod with a 4 conductor pickup, how do you choose which coil gets rolled in and out of the signal? What would be the wiring for outer coil always on and inner coil rolled in/out vs the wiring for inner coil always on and outer coil rolled in/out?
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    Axe III Into Front End Of Real Amp Plus Switchblade 8F In A Loop...Humbuster Cable Question

    Hi all I've just set up the Axe III with a Marshall JVM head and a Switchblade 8F as follows: Guitar > Axe Input 1 Axe Out 3 > JVM front Axe Out 4 > Switchblade Switchblade > Axe In 4 It's working perfectly without any ground loops and i've got Humbuster cables for all the connections...
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    Would you find a modeling pickup useful?

    Just found this thread now. @Per have you made any progress with this project? Some things worth considering... All of the polyphonic products discussed above already achieve pickup modelling in that they all apply a match eq to each string. That's why when you play a COSM model on a VG-99...
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    Question About Herbie Channel 3 and Diezel Herbert In General

    Yep that's exactly what i was thinking. Interesting that the modelled version feels better and was modelled that way
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    Question About Herbie Channel 3 and Diezel Herbert In General

    Ah that's good to know. I just saw your thread where you compare them all. Do you think the real Diezels have less of a pre gain low cut going on in the preamp? Sonically, Herbie 3 reminds me of the adjustable pre gain eqs of the Fortin Natas/Randall Thrasher.
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    Question About Herbie Channel 3 and Diezel Herbert In General

    Something i've loved about Herbie Channel 3 since the Axe II days is that it has a real tightness in the low end. It sounds like this is achieved by having quite a lot of low cut in the preamp modelling of the Herbie, even with the actual low cut control disabled, so i was curious if any...
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    Four Cable Method Strereo

    Could you describe your exact wiring of the whole rig with the Synergy and the Axe? Also, are you talking about the post or pre fx in the 4CM setup not working as you'd like? When you say 4CM stereo, i'm assuming that because the Syn 2 is basically a dual channel mono preamp with a stereo fx...
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    Synth Bass

    The only way to get the Synth to track a dry bass guitar is to just play an octave higher and then pitch down the Synth (much like you would with an octave pedal on bass guitar), but that's no good if you want to play in the bass register of the bass guitar and have the Synth be in unison.
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    Synth Bass

    Do you mean synth bass by using a bass guitar or just a guitar? The Axe's Synth block doesn't track below around G1/F#1 so it's not usable with bass direct. However, you can insert a Pitch block on the Axe III before the Synth block, and pitch shift your bass up an octave, which will give the...
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    Wish Pitch block that follows input key

    Sure i know the TC stuff well and own a few. When you play a chord, the harmonies the TC generates are simply correct to each chord..there's no key being detected, just a chord being detected. You play the correct chords yourself by knowing that the song is in a certain key and therefore the...
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    Wish Pitch block that follows input key

    Would be great to hear an example with the TC in a song and some guitar playing to see exactly what you're after as it's still not clear (to me anyway) so apologies if i'm not understanding it. When you say "key" do you actually mean that you want the freedom to play any random series of single...
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    Wish Pitch block that follows input key

    Interesting. I would have thought that if your guitar chords are providing the harmony guide, it's just using those to generate harmony. Is it really working out the key from your chords? So do you want external chord triggering to control the Pitch block's harmonies?
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    Wish Pitch block that follows input key

    It would be great but i don't think the Axe III would be able to do this in a future update. Do you want polyphonic harmony for guitar so that when you play chords, you get other harmonized chords? Or do you want external chords played by a different source (eg midi keyboard or audio from a...
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    Wanting to try some Mono recording. Seeking opinions.

    It would be fine to collapse a stereo image of say, dry guitar hard panned left and reverb or delay hard panned right. Another example would be collapsing a clean stereo chorus preset to mono..totally fine. Perhaps there would be phase artifacts when collapsing a stereo image made of one guitar...
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    Wanting to try some Mono recording. Seeking opinions.

    @mwd could we hear an example of your original stereo preset first to see how you are making your stereo image? Once we hear that we'll know if collapsing that image to mono is a good idea or not depending on the arrangement and mix of the song. If you have stereo effects after the Cab block...
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    Wish -100/+100 detune knob for virtual capo

    OP..I'm not sure the added latency, however low and great the Axe's is, of any pitch shifter is worth it for such a relatviely small amount of detuning. It might be easier to take the track itself and tune it by ear until it sounds right with your guitar tuned to 440hz.
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    ERG Heavy Funk Pop (Axe II, Marshall JVM and Fender Vibro Champ) London, UK

    Cool yeah the Variax is nice..i also have a VG-99 and VB-99 which are very flexible for tunings, but pitch shifting a whole octave doesn't sound as good as an actual string at that pitch and at the right scale length, but the longer the physical scale length is to start with, the better the...
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    ERG Heavy Funk Pop (Axe II, Marshall JVM and Fender Vibro Champ) London, UK

    Thanks a lot for checking it out and please share if you dig it. Only the video exists for this tune at the moment but i'm working on a whole new bunch of songs as we speak. I used a 30" Agile for the main heavy sound that was tuned with a low E1 and B0 for the two lowest strings, and some Bb0...
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    Time to Start Over

    Oh man don't get me started ahahaha!!! The sad thing is that you see it happen with a lot of pro level bands too, especially on "pro shot" broadcast engineer mixes where there might be some (not needed) compression on the guitar channel, which ensures the drive won't jump out properly. OP..i...
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    Time to Start Over

    OP are your clean and dirty presets made up of different amps (with quite different voicings, regardless of gain) and cabs? A common problem with guitar in a live mix is that the midrange voicing (be it a multichannel tube amp, pedals into a single channel amp, or amp blocks in a modeller) is...
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    Wish Pitch follower: lower range for bass

    + 1 but we've been asking for this since the Axe II. This also ties in with the lowest note tracking limit of the Synth Block. The Pitch Follower would also benefit from actual notes being visible when using it as a modifier.
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    Wish Ring mod expansion

    + 1 and also tracking down to 5 string bass like the Ring Mod in the Roland VB-99.
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    Software FracPad III - iOS/Android/Mac/Win Editor for the Axe-Fx II/XL/XL+, AX8/FX8, Axe-Fx III and FM3/FM9

    Hi folks..does anyone have the .dmg file for Fracpad 3.32 by any chance? Please PM me if you do.
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    Wish Modifier For Tempo subdivisions parameter in all blocks and controllers that have tempo

    That would be great..assuming modifier for subdivisions could one day be made possible, that might then require a different subdivion mode in the style of the intelligent whammy where you could set envelope to simply toggle between dotted 1/8 and 1/4 note, or any subdivisions. Really i'd like...
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    Wish Modifier For Tempo subdivisions parameter in all blocks and controllers that have tempo

    Is there a reason why this feature isn't available? It's quite a simple request given that all subdivisions are already available, but you can't assign a controller to that selection.
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    FS SIM1 XT-1, London, UK £260 plus shipping

    BUMP..price drop to £260 plus shipping.
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    Sysex messages/programming for delay tempo/time for Axe-Fx 3

    Thanks yeah...but that's quite a limiting workaround in a situation where a song's various sections are already divided as Axe scenes, and in one of those song sections you want to toggle between subdivisions of the LFO. Doing it with LFO Channels instead would only give you 4 subdivisions too.
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    Sysex messages/programming for delay tempo/time for Axe-Fx 3

    Any word on this? I'd like to be able to remote control Tempo subdivisions for the LFO Controllers. I've tried using Midi Monitor with Axe Edit III running but it just reads the constant stream of Midi data making it impossible to capture the Sysex messages for LFO Tempo.
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    The single block you wish would get more attention?

    Definitely the Synth block..especially since it's a great sounding synth. The major development i'd like to see for the Synth block is to extend the tracking range down to 5 string bass. The Source Audio C4 tracks the low B of a 5 string quite well, so it's possible, but it's already been...
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    Trying to get that effect in AxeFX3 - need some help

    You could try modifying the depth of the vibrato with Envelope or ASDR so that it kicks in after you pick each note or chord.
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    Hi there Re the Harmonist in the Roland GX700. It seems superb...3 voices with pan, each with...

    Hi there Re the Harmonist in the Roland GX700. It seems superb...3 voices with pan, each with their own user scale, and all per preset! How does it compare to the tracking of the VG-99? I get great results with the VG-99 and the Axe's Custom Shifter, so i'm curious if the GX700 has the same...
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    Wish Pitch Block: VG-99/SY 1000 style Preset User Scales (programmable within Custom Shifter) instead of Global User Scales.

    At some point, perhaps Global User Scales in the Axe could be altered by a Sysex message per note. Using a Midi foot controller, the Sysex messages could be stored pre preset, effectively transforming one single User Scale per preset. The Axe's Custom Shifter is superb, but it would be great to...
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    Wish Pitch Block: VG-99/SY 1000 style Preset User Scales (programmable within Custom Shifter) instead of Global User Scales.

    Thanks M@. Yes the Custom Shifter is similar to the VG-99's Harmonist but you end up using up all the user scales quickly if you want to create a different 4 voice custom harmony per preset, which would be 4 x User Scales per preset, allowing a total of only 8 presets of custom 4 voice...
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    Wish Pitch Block: VG-99/SY 1000 style Preset User Scales (programmable within Custom Shifter) instead of Global User Scales.

    I'd love to see an addition to the Pitch block that would allow the user to trigger harmonies not based on scales but on the actual note being played. The VG-99 has a really powerful Harmonist effect that allows you to do just that...so for example, if you play an A, it will give you any two...
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    Wish Envelope follower improvements

    + 1 It would be killer to have all Inputs available as Envelope sources, and also to have all of these available simultaneously.
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    Wish More Pitch Blocks

    Exactly. Maybe a modular, fx only Fractal unit based on the Axe III's fx and beyond would be possible in the future.
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    My Personal trick to get 70s Sound

    Ah yes i stupidly forgot that...thanks. Very easy to run two preamps in series then to get something similar to a treble booster feel going into a Plexi
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