[Nathan]
Inspired
IIRC Cliff has said a bunch of times he has no interest in profiling so I doubt it will come but.... hear me out....I don't see profiling as something missing that needs to be added - rather I see it as a less accurate, less flexible, less complete, more expensive alternative to fully functioning amp models. Personally, I have no interest in it, and, even if Fractal added it to function within existing hardware, I'd be disappointed at losing the unknown full amp modelling related improvements that were sacrificed to provide it.
As far as I can tell profilers have a few amp models/drives etc under the hood and when they "capture" the impulse response through the rig it does its best to select a model/drive etc etc and then EQ/Gains it to match the source tone. If that's the case then name me a better platform to profile amps and match them to existing modeled amps?
I know the fractal community loves the authenticity of every amp model and circuit being mapped out super accurately but the reality is there's a LARGE chunk of people out there who also love profiling their rigs and sharing profiles.
I see so many amp wishlist comments like "can we get a framus cobra added" and the responses in the thread are a bit dismissive like "A framus is just <insert amp> with <insert mod> done to it". Ok thats great, but as a guitar player I just want to use that rig for whatever reason. It's why someone would end up adding a profiler to their rig. We all know the profile isn't going to be 100% accurate but it will be more accurate than someone dialing in a tone from scratch (unless youre a complete wizard).
Anyway, I think there's a huge amount of merit to a fractal unit being able to profile and I'd love to see it in their units one day. It would be a great addition to the best modelling around, and would finally be the end game unit for covering both worlds.