Is it FW13 or Axe III or IV or V or....
This is the kind of difference i'm expecting in absence of any official examples, and what higher resolution provides from my experience:
High sample rate:
Current Res:
Or, to quote Frank Zappa: "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible"
Keep up the deviant behavior!
Another way to look at it is to think in terms of formants. That particular speaker has a pronounced 80 Hz formant.
So, a down-pitched harmony set to a specific octave?Could the idea of fooling your brain into believing a low frequency exists combined with a pitch tracking technique result in an IR that you could change the low resonant depending on the chord you are playing? A pseudo-self-tuning IR if you will.
Some might think, well, just use an octave down effect, but the effect would have to stay in the lower ranges, not just 1 octave down from any note. Maybe 2 octaves down at a certain note/s, 3 from another, and so on.
Quite an audible difference. At least from my naive hear.
Will this be a "purchased" upgrade ?
Fractal has never, to date, charged for a firmware upgrade and there's no indication that's about to change so I would safely say "no", you won't have to pay to use the UltraRes CAB block technology.
HOWEVER you will need UltraRes IRs. Those may require you to pay your IR providers additional monies to obtain. I'm not sure what Kevin@OwnHammer's plans are or RedWirez. Both of those companies have done free upgrades to their bundles in the past, but UltraRes may be a lot of work for them...I suspect it depends on whether they have saved WAV IRs from their shoots that are long enough already or if they have to re-shoot IRs.
So I finally go to play the UltraRes stuff loud on Wednesday night at rehearsal and...oh my yup yes...definitely it sounds and feels different! Combine it with the dynamics improvements from the 12.04 beta and it's really something else to feel. I'd say the biggest problem I have now is the UltraRes stuff is showing the limitations of my EV LiveX speaker -- it's definitely not keeping up with the demand now. So this firmware update is going to generate a lot of peripheral business for IR companies and Atomic I guess! There needs to be a CLR in my future!
Quite an audible difference. At least from my naive hear.
This now awaits you:
I'll let the other members decide which level
This is the kind of difference i'm expecting in absence of any official examples, and what higher resolution provides from my experience:
High sample rate:
Current Res:
that's pretty much what we're currently noticing during our beta tests with some UltraRes IRs. all the frequencies seem to sound more "controlled" and sit where they are supposed to without using an EQ. if you listen careful to the second clip, the Lo Res version, you can hear the bass being a bit out of control, almost to the point where you'd like to reach for the bass control to adjust it, but that would just leave the sound with too little bass. in the HiRes clip, there's still bass, but it sits better. anyway, this just seems to confirm what we've been experiencing as well.the difference is absolutely audible even on headphones!
i really like how the first one sounds, it has that "3D" sound i'm after and just can't get
using "standard IR's". i always knew it was an IR problem that everything sounded "mono"
(even both tracks are mono of course) or letzt say "centered".