Is there a Fractal API available for developers who want to create there own effects/extensions? I understand this is a closed platform but there are a lot of musicians who moonlight as software developers who would love to get under the hood of this amazing hardware.
Mmm let's not make Fractal Ecosystem into an App like place as Apple.
I wasn't trying to promote anything like the Apple App system. I happen to be an programmer that has created many cool guitar effects. I would love to harness the Fractal hardware for my personal use in creating new effects.
I wouldn't expect it to be supported but I would love the opportunity to leverage this amazing hardware.
I wasn't trying to promote anything like the Apple App system. I happen to be an programmer that has created many cool guitar effects. I would love to harness the Fractal hardware for my personal use in creating new effects.
It has to be supported though.
The very fact that the FW would have to be re-written to allow third party add ons, the fact that API kits would have to developed and maintained etc etc will all require back-end support.
It would be pretty tight if it somehow didn't get out of hand...
Like if Joe and Cliff made a developer kit that got very limited access to the aX8, or maybe even no access, just a virtual environment you could tinker in. Then you'd have to send that back to Cliff who could check it and then approve it for distro on the forum or something... and they'd all have to be free... or maybe even you'd have to pay a little to submit it to FAS, to make it worth their time.
That is my vision.
I'm fairly certain the smart cats at Fractal already have a plan for this. They are years ahead of Line 6 (crap) and they know what the future holds....
Then you'd have to send that back to Cliff who could check it and then approve it for distro on the forum or something...
I wouldn't expect it to be supported but I would love the opportunity to leverage this amazing hardware. I'm new to these forums but is there an "official" moderator that could answer questions like this?
Somehow I don't think this is the future.....
Do you really want Cliff and the team to be bogged down testing and reviewing half-baked attempts at coding effects, or focused on developing new products and improving the algorithms that make FAS gear light years ahead?
For the record, I don't see this happening... buuuuuuttt, having the ability to have dynamically loadable 3rd-party blocks would be awesome. The API would just expose the callbacks and your code would receive the audio and spit it out the other side. The block could literally be anything.I wouldn't expect it to be supported but I would love the opportunity to leverage this amazing hardware. I'm new to these forums but is there an "official" moderator that could answer questions like this?