This new firmware sounds great...

[Randy4Guitars]

Forget you guys and your amp drooling. The amps sound great.

We need the THREE MINUTE F'IN LOOPER!!!! And with an A and B phrase you can switch between or play both at once. Yes, that's the new firmware.

 

[shotgunn]

Looper looper looper looper!!! 3 minutes. Let's do it!!!


I'm a high gain djent djent meedley meedely meedely type player...

Sent from my iPod.

 

[austinbuddy]

Read the thread -- cracks me up! The main thing is, ALL THINGS WILL SOUND (EVEN) BETTER, that's the real cake. Anything else is icing and sprinkles.

 

[flyingfadr]

Hoping for the original Crate and Pignose models... ;-)

 

[rickboot]

The firmware is rumored to have a new noise gate so powerful it will prevent whining in the forum after the firmware is released.

 

[Jupiter]

Cliff, whatever you do, please do NOT touch the JTM45 amp model!!! That thing is more PERFECT than perfection itself!!!

 

[Bullstein]

hehe...

You tell us that the new Firmware sounds great...! Sounds great= time to release the new Firmware for all of us!!!

 

[GiRa]

Means no enhancing is possible ??? :lol:lol Hope I'm enough real .

Sound wise not, btw also a lot of usability features where impossible on G1's design.

Edit: of course you could argue about an fx-only mode or amp-only mode and all other stuff, but it has all been discussed.

 

[FractalAudio]

None of the models have changed.

The new firmware is just some bug fixes plus automatic "high resolution" mode for the amp block. If you only have one amp block in the patch then the amp block runs at twice sampling frequency. Also, the internal bit depth has been increased for many of the filters. All the critical filters now use an extra 8 bits of precision in the mantissa. There is also a minor change to the speaker resonance modeling that increases the dynamic range.

It just happens to sound really good to me.

 

[eda123]

Mantissa?

That's a term I've not heard in fifteen years since designing my first floating point execution unit on a CPU. Another eight bits is a lot of added precision.

Stoked about the high resolution mode!

 

[Alter Ego]

This kind of update is even more exciting to me than new amps...thanks Cliff!!!!

 

[FreaqyFrequency]

Twice the sampling rate, as in 192k? I thought there was already oversampling to 96 applied for antialiasing purposes. 192k seems to be ridiculous for a guitar-oriented application...

Of course, this is by no means a complaint, merely an observation. I've spent a while railing against 192k across digital audio forums; then again, that's also when it's being marketed as a prosumer format (i.e, tracks being released at 24/192.) Definitely curious to hear more about this.

Bravo on the added precision to the mantissa.

 

[MrGuitarabuse]

None of the models have changed.

The new firmware is just some bug fixes plus automatic "high resolution" mode for the amp block. If you only have one amp block in the patch then the amp block runs at twice sampling frequency. Also, the internal bit depth has been increased for many of the filters. All the critical filters now use an extra 8 bits of precision in the mantissa. There is also a minor change to the speaker resonance modeling that increases the dynamic range.

It just happens to sound really good to me.

So I was right "All the critical filters.." that must be the Tony Mckenzie ones...

 

[Brick_top]

so... an axe-fx II "ULTRA" could be right around the corner if there was a new processor around?

 

[LostInSpace]

Twice the sampling rate, as in 192k? I thought there was already oversampling to 96 applied for antialiasing purposes. 192k seems to be ridiculous for a guitar-oriented application...

My guess is that running the amp block at a higher sampling rate isn't about anti-aliasing, but rather to more accurately model the non-linear things going on in a pre-amp. It's the Axe II HD! It's about time Cliff caught up with Line 6! (*ducks and runs*)

 

[Randalljax]

So how does this change the overall sounds
Just more open more detail to the models
More punch?

 

[Craig Walker]

I did notice that my request for patch assignable input selection was taken off of the wish list. Maybe because it's being implemented?

That would be great. My only "wishlist" item.

 

[mortega76]

None of the models have changed.

The new firmware is just some bug fixes plus automatic "high resolution" mode for the amp block. If you only have one amp block in the patch then the amp block runs at twice sampling frequency. Also, the internal bit depth has been increased for many of the filters. All the critical filters now use an extra 8 bits of precision in the mantissa. There is also a minor change to the speaker resonance modeling that increases the dynamic range.

It just happens to sound really good to me.

Wow... Most companies would repackage this as a new machine... Great freakin' work Cliff...

I can definitely see folks wanting to purchase a second Axe2 for dual high res amp sims... Great subtle marketing!!!

Can't wait!

 

[Brick_top]

its not dual if I read it correctly?

edit - sorry mortega76 I misread your post

 

[GuitarDojo]

its not dual if I read it correctly?

Right. The high resolution mode is on when there is only one amp block used.