Can the Axe FX be used as a tool for electronic music?

[Hansen]

Has anybody experienced with using the Axe FX for making electronic music. In that case, what presets and sounds have you used? Is it possible to also create a synth preset, send MIDI through it and use it as a sample?

 

[bradlake]

Has anybody experienced with using the Axe FX for making electronic music. In that case, what presets and sounds have you used? Is it possible to also create a synth preset, send MIDI through it and use it as a sample?

https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/some-self-promotion.128968/
if you haven't yet, go to @simeon 's website Linked from above post and download his blocks and presets ...also, I have found this MIDI GUITAR app as a revelation for integrating synth sounds and samples with axfx or any guitar audio signal....

www.jamorigin.com

 

[mr_fender]

The Axe II can be used for effects with any audio source. It does have a synth block, but it does not handle MIDI note messages. It tracks the incoming audio for control or produces preset tones.

 

[PumpkinKing86]

The dude from Phantogram uses an Axe-FX, so yeah, I think it works.

Don't know about your MIDI/sample question though.

 

[Geezerjohn]

Simeon is the Yoda of soundscapes. He puts the electron in electronica, the new in nuance, the space in spatial.

 

[Xrocker]

Since the AxeFx is an electronic device, wouldn't anything creates with it be electronic music?

 

[Geezerjohn]

Since the AxeFx is an electronic device, wouldn't anything creates with it be electronic music?

Nerdistically speaking, you do have a point there.

 

[Xrocker]

Also a dinosaurs point of view.

What the hell is this EDM? You kids get off my lawn!

 

[Hansen]

The Axe II can be used for effects with any audio source. It does have a synth block, but it does not handle MIDI note messages. It tracks the incoming audio for control or produces preset tones.

So I cannot store an Axe FX preset as a sample on my computer somehow? I can only use it and record it via Axe fX?

 

[Hansen]

Where can I download Simeon's presets?

 

[Alex C]

Where can I download Simeon's presets?

http://simeonharris.co.uk/Blocks/blocks.html

 

[lqdsnddist]

So I cannot store an Axe FX preset as a sample on my computer somehow? I can only use it and record it via Axe fX?

A preset and a sample are two totally different things.

A sample is an audio recording, which may be part of a preset on a sampler, or a wavetable synth, or a ROmpler keyboard, but the Axe-fx is none of those things and can't provide sample playback, it's merely an effects unit