I've given up hoping. It seems like a fairly simple bit of programming compared to everything else they do and the fact that it hasn't happened in all this time makes me think it's just not going to happen.
Same here. I got on the wait list for the Axe Fx III when it first came out and bought one the day I got the invite in the mail. I had planned to do the same for the FC-12. I had reserved an FC-12 and FC-6 and had special plans for what I wanted to do with them. I got on the wait list and I waited for a couple of months before realizing the FC was not going to available for a long time so I started looking for an interim solution. My MFC-101 had been rendered essentially useless for the Axe FX III, at least for how I needed to use it. After a lot of researching and looking I found the RJM Mastermind and decided to get the GT/22. I got that setup and it worked great and the editor was fantastic and uploading changes from the editor was quick and easy. Much better than the MFC-101. I had gotten on the waitlist for the FC-12 and FC-6 knowing that it didn’t have song and setlist functionality, but it was promised so and I wanted it so...I waited.
I absolutely refuse to gig without song and setlist mode. It saves me so much time in setup and is much easier to use during a gig. One less thing to have to think about.
By the time I got the FC-12 invite email I had been using the GT/22 for a long time and to my surprise, Fractal still didn’t have song and setlist implemented for the FC-12. So, I decided I better wait until they get that implemented because it already seemed to me like there was a chance that it was not going to happen.
I keep checking back every couple of months or so, but it’s been a couple of years now, right? I love the GT/22 so much, I’m not sure, at this point, that I could be convinced to switch to the FC-12. I would like to try it out, though. But I’m thinking it’s not really going to happen. Seems like, if it was a real plan and something Fractal viewed as important, they would have gotten it done by now. Like langohr above said it should be a “fairly simple bit of programming” compared to the other stuff they’ve done to get it to market. I’m a software engineer and from my perspective, that functionality should be relatively easy to implement as long as they didn’t do something in their design that would preclude being able to implement it correctly. But I don’t think that’s the case. I think, for whatever reason, it’s just not a priority.
I may still buy one if they ever implement the song and setlist stuff, just because I’ve been so happy with the other stuff they’ve put out over the last decade or so and I’d like to give it shot. However, I’m not waisting time dreaming about it anymore. I’ve got a fantastic solution with the Mastermind GT/22 and it will be hard to kick it off the podium at this point.
Oh well, maybe they’ll have something even better when they get to the Axe FX IV.