Wish Firmware version numbering synchronization across all Gen 3 units

Features will differ a bit between the units and there can be big gaps when each model receives the latest updates. They might even jump over some Axe-Fx 3 improvements, like you get 21.04 amp modeling but skip the changes found in 21.01 as those are already included and improved by 21.04.

I suggest adding separate versioning for amp modeling, considering that's the thing that gets the most updates and is probably the thing people are most interested in figuring out if their FM3/9 has the latest and greatest from the Axe-Fx 3.

So you could go to the info screen on the unit or check in Axe-Edit and see something like this:
  • Axe-Fx 3 21.04 (latest release for any Fractal)
    • Amp modeling 1.0.5
  • FM9 4.01 (next to latest)
    • Amp modeling 1.0.4
  • FM3 6.02 (released before FM9 4.01)
    • Amp modeling 1.0.3
Another thing I'd like to see Fractal do is semantic versioning. You can't figure out from the version numbers how big of an update we are talking about. If it was instead a semantic major.minor.patch versioning, we could tell that:
  • 22.0.0 is a major feature update, for example new cab sim system or a breakthrough in amp modeling.
  • 22.0.1 is a bug fix update - something we see Fractal issue pretty often for major updates where there's 1-2 bugs that are quickly fixed.
  • 22.1.0 is a minor feature update, e.g improved amp modeling.
 
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