That would be a megastupendonecrobumpinskaya.Weak! Not even a year... Tell me when we get 8 years
understood but it is a business and businesses have timelines. Do those timelines change? Absolutely, but if you don't think Cliff had a number of years in mind for the AXEIII then you are crazy OR he is bad at business. Just saying...I don't know all the models and the dates they were released so I figured id ask here to see if anyone has these time lines written and maybe we could estimate.
I know this is a loaded question that we just may not know but has there been any pattern to how often Fractal is releasing new units? I want to invest into a Fractal but do not want to buy something which will be replaced in a year. I know FM3 was just announced so likely that isn't getting replaced anytime soon but my real interest lies in the full AXE-FX units in this case the III...when do we guestimate the IV will come? Thanks!
It was great planning to put so much headroom in the III. Congrats.I don't foresee a new unit for at least a few more years. Heck it's only over a year old. This industry is not like high-volume consumer products. We don't release new versions every year or two.
And yet, there is the simplest of answers for your requestI want 6 amps at one time, so that I can crossf....
* ducks as rotten vegetables start flying *
Okay, okay, I won't say it again!
Perhaps it helps to think of all of those guitars and amps built in the late 50s and 60s. The '59 Les Paul was not obsoleted by the PRS was it? Yes, there are new products today that have new capabilities and features, but the old ones still do what they were intended to do, and many of them do it just as well as a newer one.I suggest maybe trying to think of it like a hammer instead of like a financial investment. When you go to buy a hammer you check that it's got a comfortable grip, that it's made well, you swing it about and check that it has the features you need i.e. a claw for removing nails or a peen for rounding metal, and then you buy it.
You don't agonise about it as an investment even if it technically is one, because you know that it will be good for that job for as long as that job exists.
Buy an Axe III now. Don't worry about when the next one is coming out.I have a Helix
Can anything actually sound any better?Can the lV sound much better than the lll?
I don't think the IV will provide better sounds. Probably more different sounds (weird effects, polyphonic synth etc) and more functionality.Can anything actually sound any better?
You are getting these answers because:wow these answers baffle me. Are none of you part of a business? Where I work, when we release new products we always guestimate at a lifecycle. Pretty much all businesses do this and im 100% certain Cliff at fractal does the same. Often you can look at their release history to get a guestimate. Do things change...YES, but it doesn't hurt to be informed before buying. Just doing my homework. I have a Helix and it is serving me ok...and if there was a likely hood the AXE IV would come out this year then id hold off but if it is very unlikely then im jumping in.
wow these answers baffle me. Are none of you part of a business? Where I work, when we release new products we always guestimate at a lifecycle. Pretty much all businesses do this and im 100% certain Cliff at fractal does the same. Often you can look at their release history to get a guestimate. Do things change...YES, but it doesn't hurt to be informed before buying. Just doing my homework. I have a Helix and it is serving me ok...and if there was a likely hood the AXE IV would come out this year then id hold off but if it is very unlikely then im jumping in.
Why?I wish the next Axe-Fx is a VST plug-in
That is all.
I hate to rain on your parade but the person you’re providing all of this wisdom to hasn‘t been on the forum since September 2019.That is called Planned Obsolescence. That is unethical, immoral, unsustainable, and a threat to the environment. Unfortunately, it is the current trend in most business. Fractal Audio is an exception. If you know a little bit about the story of Cliff Chase, you will learn that he is doing this because he loves to design these toys for the guitar, not as a greedy business. That is corroborated by the abundance of free firmware updates that are not just for correcting bugs, but for bringing improvements and new features to the current product. They only release a new product when they have really exhausted the possibilities of the hardware. They put everything they got into the current product, and the new releases of the same product (e.g.: Axe-FX III Mark II) are small improvements in the production, probably introduced thanks to the price drop of the memory, displays and other components.
If they were greedy, the Axe-FX 3 Mark II would have been named Axe-FX 4, and the Axe-FX 3 would already be obsolete and non-compatible with future firmware releases.
What if they already have the Ax-Fx XX and they release a slightly less dumbed down version every few years