FractalAudio said:
(...snip...) The question that no one has asked is why is he looking at the impulse responses in the Axe-Fx? How is he getting the data? If he is reverse engineering the firmware he is in direct violation of the DMCA. (...snip...)
I did wonder this question, but since the science of IR's is currently over my head, I had no idea the effort involved.
:?: So would it take a determined, purposeful and focused goal of deconstructing the Axe-Fx for the author to have arrived at his conclusion rather than a serendipitous discovery arising out of intellectual curiosity? :?:
For example, Jay and I both posted .syx files of the Framus 4x12. Then a couple of users d/l, loaded and listened to each. There were differences in the sounds they produced even though we used the same source .wav file.
As a result, I looked at the plots of both using AlbertAxe's IR converter utility out of curiosity to see the differences. Of course, I had the files to compare because I made one, and Jay provided the other. How one obtains a factory loaded IR from the Axe-Fx is unknown to me.
Thus, it may in fact be as Cliff states a violation of the DMCA.
I don't know how or why the author, user name Alu, came to be doing the same comparison with one of the hundreds of his own IR's to one of the Axe-Fx IR's.
Suspicious, perhaps, and I'm not throwing out accusations, just my own analysis of one wrinkle of the situation leaves me with questions.