My first reaction playing through Axe-Fx III was; "I've must've done something really wrong with AX8 because this sounds so much better".
Axe-Fx III is an amazing product. Not only does it sound better to me than AX8 but *all* problems I had with AX8 are gone. (Now if only they'd add the "two part" noise gate" see here https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/integrated-noise-reduction.138509/#post-1642624 )
I did uncover some teething problems but no show stoppers.
Understandably Axe-Edit III still beta and some functionality is missing. It also seems to frequently do an internal restart; freeze for a minute and then reread cab blocks. OTOH it does update the actual state of the preset in real-time (well, at the speed of MIDI).
I wasn't immediately able to get MIDI through to work from USB in to DIN out/through but that could be me doing it wrong. Feeding MIDI from BigSky/H9 to Axe-Fx III worked as expected.
I also tried feeding backing tracks from a Mac to In 2 over USB but my quite new Macbook Pro kept dropping the audio device every few seconds. Same happened when I tried to use Axe-Fx III as input to the Mac over USB. I'll just use a mixer until that's fixed.
Can't wait to hear what presets from @fremen, @Moke, @austinbuddy and others sound like on Axe-Fx III.
- lenny
Axe-Fx III is an amazing product. Not only does it sound better to me than AX8 but *all* problems I had with AX8 are gone. (Now if only they'd add the "two part" noise gate" see here https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/integrated-noise-reduction.138509/#post-1642624 )
I did uncover some teething problems but no show stoppers.
Understandably Axe-Edit III still beta and some functionality is missing. It also seems to frequently do an internal restart; freeze for a minute and then reread cab blocks. OTOH it does update the actual state of the preset in real-time (well, at the speed of MIDI).
I wasn't immediately able to get MIDI through to work from USB in to DIN out/through but that could be me doing it wrong. Feeding MIDI from BigSky/H9 to Axe-Fx III worked as expected.
I also tried feeding backing tracks from a Mac to In 2 over USB but my quite new Macbook Pro kept dropping the audio device every few seconds. Same happened when I tried to use Axe-Fx III as input to the Mac over USB. I'll just use a mixer until that's fixed.
Can't wait to hear what presets from @fremen, @Moke, @austinbuddy and others sound like on Axe-Fx III.
- lenny