Jono Bacon
Inspired
Hi Everyone,
I primarily work in the tech world, so forgive me if some of my day job is blending in here, but it strikes me that there is an enormous amount of potential for the Axe FX III, and the grunt horsepower in it, to be a platform people can build content on.
Specifically:
1. Creating additional amps and effects.
2. Creating applications and integrations for engaging with the device.
In other devices, this would be typically be accomplished with a set of APIs (at developer.fracalaudio.com?) that expose various functionality inside the unit. This would mean that the core engine could be protected, but key functionality could be exposed to enable the community to create this kind of content. I am not sure if this is something the Axe FX III (currently) supports.
While an API for people to build apps and integrations would be interesting (imagine all kinds of DAW integrations, preset management, etc), I think the ability for people to create amp models and effects would be particularly interesting. This could potentially spur a whole open source community (building communities is primarily my area of expertise) of people working together to create and model amps, refine this work, and more.
This could provide a really valuable component of AxeExchange in which people could share these amp models, rate them, and then link off the to GitHub/GitLab project where they can further collaborate around them.
Of course, the Axe FX III would have the official, FAS modelled amps, but then there could be 'User' amps that can be loaded onto the amp and while some of them would be crappy, like the rest of the open source world, some of this collaborative output would likely be fantastic.
There would need to be some pieces to figure out here for FAS (e.g. exposing the necessary APIs, sandboxing these user submitted amps to avoid security vulnerabilities, providing a developer portal with docs and tutorials), but I think this would open up an enormous advantage for FAS, generate a new and exciting community around the Axe FX III, and spur all kinds of neat innovative ideas.
Thoughts?
I primarily work in the tech world, so forgive me if some of my day job is blending in here, but it strikes me that there is an enormous amount of potential for the Axe FX III, and the grunt horsepower in it, to be a platform people can build content on.
Specifically:
1. Creating additional amps and effects.
2. Creating applications and integrations for engaging with the device.
In other devices, this would be typically be accomplished with a set of APIs (at developer.fracalaudio.com?) that expose various functionality inside the unit. This would mean that the core engine could be protected, but key functionality could be exposed to enable the community to create this kind of content. I am not sure if this is something the Axe FX III (currently) supports.
While an API for people to build apps and integrations would be interesting (imagine all kinds of DAW integrations, preset management, etc), I think the ability for people to create amp models and effects would be particularly interesting. This could potentially spur a whole open source community (building communities is primarily my area of expertise) of people working together to create and model amps, refine this work, and more.
This could provide a really valuable component of AxeExchange in which people could share these amp models, rate them, and then link off the to GitHub/GitLab project where they can further collaborate around them.
Of course, the Axe FX III would have the official, FAS modelled amps, but then there could be 'User' amps that can be loaded onto the amp and while some of them would be crappy, like the rest of the open source world, some of this collaborative output would likely be fantastic.
There would need to be some pieces to figure out here for FAS (e.g. exposing the necessary APIs, sandboxing these user submitted amps to avoid security vulnerabilities, providing a developer portal with docs and tutorials), but I think this would open up an enormous advantage for FAS, generate a new and exciting community around the Axe FX III, and spur all kinds of neat innovative ideas.
Thoughts?