It seems that you only use the pedalboard to play live, what luck. I spend many more hours searching for a sound than playing live.
Having a large touch screen makes work much easier and on top of that I don't need a computer.
Right. I get that. But, the computer is a better interface than a small touch-screen.
It seems like an iOS/Android version of Axe-Edit would work for you, no?
IDK...I'm jumping out on a limb here, but it seems like people who are happy with the current slate of tools (front panel and axe-edit, mostly) have an easy way to use a laptop or desktop physically near where they usually play. And the people who aren't probably don't. At least personally, I will always choose a desktop over a laptop and either over a tablet or phone whenever possible.
I've "done my time" with (relatively) modern mobile tech. The smart phone has its uses, obviously. Back when I was DJing, I've made tracks on tablet groove boxes that I ended up playing live (with a laptop and controllers, including using timecode records to use turntables to control software playback). It was cool. But, it was always easier to just use the computer with the real GUI instead of the insanely compromised phone-focused GUI. And even those tablet groovebox tracks...I finished on a computer after recording them via the headphone jack. There weren't any phone/tablet apps capable of mastering (or just running a good limiter at the time), and rendering/bouncing and then getting the track off the device was, at the time, a real headache.
Mobile UIs are a compromise for everything other than "consuming content/distractions", communicating (audio, text, or AV), quick information gathering (weather, news...which is basically consuming content), or GPS. That's what they're good at. Even text communication is better with a real keyboard. And, frankly, there are other interfaces that are better at some of those.
The best GPS experience we've come up with is actually Google Glass (yes, I still own one and used it extensively for a few years) because it just presents a translucent screen in front of you without distracting your view of the road/trail/whatever. But, people generally didn't like the dorkyness of a $1500 face computer and Google didn't like that there was no way to monetize its use for the general population, apart from the initial purchase...it didn't fit their ad-focused business model. Which is sad, because it was an incredible communication + notification + GPS device.
Basically...I'm not a luddite. I've been an early adopter in the past (I think I was in the 3rd batch of people to get Glass). But, mobile interfaces are still nowhere near as flexible or usable as computer interfaces....for much of anything except consuming content, distractions, and some forms of communication.
FWIW, I
mostly set up and tweak presets via the computer. But, I also mostly play in my home studio/office. If I need to tweak something when I'm away from it, the existing interface is fine. It's slower. But I can do everything I really need to. I just don't remember where some of the things are. For something like quickly tweaking an amp or "pedal" in my setup, it's easy enough to get to it via the layout screen and then edit. It's slower than having all the knobs on all the separate pedals/amps/etc.. But, that's one of the trade-offs from having something so flexible that does so much. It has 6 knobs on it....the things "inside" it have > 100. I just don't think a touch screen is going to actually do what you think it will. Maybe I'm wrong.
I agree some love should be tossed to bass players. Bass is also a guitar and with a huge push of models there is a market waiting to be tapped without a redesign.
Nobody has said that the efforts are not great, I just think that it would not be bad to also think a little more about the bassists, nothing more.
I think I agree. IDK...I don't play bass, so I haven't looked at it all that seriously.
Don't a lot of bass players already (more or less) go direct without an amp (model)? Aren't a lot of bass amps crazy high headroom and designed to be (more or less) clean and flat? What, specifically, is it missing that you would like?
The bass rigs I've seen are very simple compared to a lot of guitar rigs...it almost seems like the benefits of modeling, in general, don't apply to bass the same way they apply to guitar.
I think that's the reason very few of the high-end modelers put any real effort into bass at all. IDK...I don't play bass, so maybe I'm totally wrong.
