funny_polymath
Fractal Fanatic
I usually don't change patches within a song - just add/subtract fx using the IA switches, but, yes, when I do, the latency is horrible! And, it happens to me without the USB cable plugged in. And my patches are pretty SIMPLE too! This, plus the looper limitiations and the spillover issues is (are) my big complaint(s). I WISH WISH WISH that the Axe II acted MORE like a bunch of stomboxes on the floor controlled by a switcher. I have had two main iterations of this:
1) All my stomp boxes controlled by an ancient Boss switcher. This was back circa 1984. Was FANTASTIC! 2) Was all my rack and floor stuff, all controlled by a Switchblade unit - 1990s until I got my Ultra in 2007, I think. - also fantastic.
Both were virtually instantaneous. And often, just using one delay unit (a Memory man in iteration 1 and a PCM-42 and, later, a D-Two in the 2nd iteration) had NO spillover issues (i.e. spillover worked 'as expected' - now I even get spillover when I switch between two patches that have a delay block, but the block on the 'before' and the 'after' patch both default (and are set at default when I make the switch) as OFF - WTF?
Of course, the plus of the Axe: no moody tube amps. LOTS of amp sounds. LOTS of fx I never had before. And ll my FX in 3 units (AXE II, PCM-70, Boomerang). Oh, and great foot controller with massive capabilities (including switching my PCM-70 patches while I switch my Axe patches) - my Liquid Foot Pro (soon to be a Pro+!!!).
Still, I wish Fractal would make a reapportionment of development energies: less on new amps. Less on new modeling technologies. More on a 'real' looper (i.e. 'global' above all effects and with capbilities of more 'talented' loopers like the 'Rang. More on FAST patch changes. More on spillover. More on the concept of the axe as faithfully emulating an amp, and a buch of discrete effects and a switching unit. I can tell ya: i never, ever, ever had a situation where I switched between two patchs where my delay was off, only to suddenly have a delay spillover on the 2nd patch. Maybe I'll figure out how to stop it, but, frankly, I shouldn't have to: if we were emulating the 'real world', and you were feeding, let's say, a serial path through a delay unit, and that unit was bypassed, changing the patching to another path involving the same unit would not provoke the sudden 'appearance' of signal coming out of that unit. It would stay bypassed. That is reasonable, and what is to be expected. Or so I thought.
1) All my stomp boxes controlled by an ancient Boss switcher. This was back circa 1984. Was FANTASTIC! 2) Was all my rack and floor stuff, all controlled by a Switchblade unit - 1990s until I got my Ultra in 2007, I think. - also fantastic.
Both were virtually instantaneous. And often, just using one delay unit (a Memory man in iteration 1 and a PCM-42 and, later, a D-Two in the 2nd iteration) had NO spillover issues (i.e. spillover worked 'as expected' - now I even get spillover when I switch between two patches that have a delay block, but the block on the 'before' and the 'after' patch both default (and are set at default when I make the switch) as OFF - WTF?
Of course, the plus of the Axe: no moody tube amps. LOTS of amp sounds. LOTS of fx I never had before. And ll my FX in 3 units (AXE II, PCM-70, Boomerang). Oh, and great foot controller with massive capabilities (including switching my PCM-70 patches while I switch my Axe patches) - my Liquid Foot Pro (soon to be a Pro+!!!).
Still, I wish Fractal would make a reapportionment of development energies: less on new amps. Less on new modeling technologies. More on a 'real' looper (i.e. 'global' above all effects and with capbilities of more 'talented' loopers like the 'Rang. More on FAST patch changes. More on spillover. More on the concept of the axe as faithfully emulating an amp, and a buch of discrete effects and a switching unit. I can tell ya: i never, ever, ever had a situation where I switched between two patchs where my delay was off, only to suddenly have a delay spillover on the 2nd patch. Maybe I'll figure out how to stop it, but, frankly, I shouldn't have to: if we were emulating the 'real world', and you were feeding, let's say, a serial path through a delay unit, and that unit was bypassed, changing the patching to another path involving the same unit would not provoke the sudden 'appearance' of signal coming out of that unit. It would stay bypassed. That is reasonable, and what is to be expected. Or so I thought.