This is a rant, i don't write these kind of messages very often but i think this one is worth it.
You guys at fractal audio did an amazing job creating the AXE FX 3, it's an amazing piece of equipment with amazing capability and versatility of sounds.
But it's now obvious that you did not understand anything about the studio work, about what a modern guitarist / music producer needs and about the future of music production in general.
I really want to buy an AXE FX 3 not only because i need something like a guitar amp, but because it would be a really cool experimental box that i can use to make every sound more personal: i can use it on vocals, synths, drums and on every other sound i want while i'm mixing or doing sound design, it has amazing effects that can add up really amazing textures to every sounds.
Doing these kind of stuffs from pro tools (or every other DAW) with a direct USB bus it will be a really fast, creative and innovative workflow and that's the point: i want do that, i want spend all the money it costs but it will not work fine.
Why? because AXE FX3, the machine with all the power of the world, don't support any other sample rate than 48KHz.
You don't know what you're missing, because i think that many many other people in the world have the same needs that i have and they are fucking upsetted like me because these useless and nonsense spec that only fractal audio has in the entire audio world.
And i'm more upsetted to see comments like "it's the entire audio world that has to adapt to 48KHz", yes maybe , but it's obvious that none give a fuck about the sample rate fractal audio equipment adopt, and the standard will remain 44100Hz of course, till something bigger will come.
Said that it's a shame that this so powerful piece of gear still has this stupid limitation.
As a producer many time you cannot choose the sample rate of the project because maybe someone else created it before, and so you know what a pain in the ass is to rerecord everything or to change the sample rate if the project has to go from producer to producer, with all the quality loss and things like that.
I don't know what is the motivation of your choice, maybe are the IRs maybe not, it doesn't matter because it's a crazy choice. With this ackward fixed sample rate at 48KHz you are not making the AXE FX 3 ahead of the times, you are losing opportunities to potentially make the AXE FX 3 an amazing studio piece and to help people utilize it on different material than guitars (which kinda bored the fuck out a little bit) to discover new things, maybe new styles and that maybe will help you creating new revolutionary pieces of equipment that can be groundbreaking even more than AXE FX ever did.
So i know my words haven't got that much value, but i hope that maybe one day you will make a selectable sample rate, if not so i wasted 30 minutes of my life.
Anyway, thank you, have a good day.
You guys at fractal audio did an amazing job creating the AXE FX 3, it's an amazing piece of equipment with amazing capability and versatility of sounds.
But it's now obvious that you did not understand anything about the studio work, about what a modern guitarist / music producer needs and about the future of music production in general.
I really want to buy an AXE FX 3 not only because i need something like a guitar amp, but because it would be a really cool experimental box that i can use to make every sound more personal: i can use it on vocals, synths, drums and on every other sound i want while i'm mixing or doing sound design, it has amazing effects that can add up really amazing textures to every sounds.
Doing these kind of stuffs from pro tools (or every other DAW) with a direct USB bus it will be a really fast, creative and innovative workflow and that's the point: i want do that, i want spend all the money it costs but it will not work fine.
Why? because AXE FX3, the machine with all the power of the world, don't support any other sample rate than 48KHz.
You don't know what you're missing, because i think that many many other people in the world have the same needs that i have and they are fucking upsetted like me because these useless and nonsense spec that only fractal audio has in the entire audio world.
And i'm more upsetted to see comments like "it's the entire audio world that has to adapt to 48KHz", yes maybe , but it's obvious that none give a fuck about the sample rate fractal audio equipment adopt, and the standard will remain 44100Hz of course, till something bigger will come.
Said that it's a shame that this so powerful piece of gear still has this stupid limitation.
As a producer many time you cannot choose the sample rate of the project because maybe someone else created it before, and so you know what a pain in the ass is to rerecord everything or to change the sample rate if the project has to go from producer to producer, with all the quality loss and things like that.
I don't know what is the motivation of your choice, maybe are the IRs maybe not, it doesn't matter because it's a crazy choice. With this ackward fixed sample rate at 48KHz you are not making the AXE FX 3 ahead of the times, you are losing opportunities to potentially make the AXE FX 3 an amazing studio piece and to help people utilize it on different material than guitars (which kinda bored the fuck out a little bit) to discover new things, maybe new styles and that maybe will help you creating new revolutionary pieces of equipment that can be groundbreaking even more than AXE FX ever did.
So i know my words haven't got that much value, but i hope that maybe one day you will make a selectable sample rate, if not so i wasted 30 minutes of my life.
Anyway, thank you, have a good day.