ElectricPhase
Fractal Fanatic
If there were features which integrated my Axe III seamlessly into my DAW, I would certainly use them!
Has Fractal confirmed or denied this is something they plan on releasing in the future? (I don't think so)
Has the FAS Reverb plugin been hacked? (I don't think so)
Why is Line 6 thinking different about releasing a VST?
just speculating..
if the preset is attached to the track in your DAW, it makes it much easier to keep track of things. Avid did something similar to this with the Eleven Rack and it worked great.
I’ve got a buddy who is a vst developer, he says there is very little money in software and it’s a very small market for most stuff.
adobe can make millions charging $9.99 a month subscriptions but they have a user base of tens of millions too. Market for guitar modeling software is small, market for paid guitar modeling software is even smaller.
I don’t know the FAS margins but I’m sure they are decent, and they are selling well at given price points. $699 foot controllers moving as fast as they can stock them.
Axe III and a FC is like $3500 and I don’t know the margin but it’s got to be pretty good.
No one will pay that kind of money for software so you charge what, $399 tops let’s say. How much do you make of it verse how many do you sell? Do you sell ten times the licenses ? No because there is a limited market, and how many only use soemthing they got cracked as well?
FAS has a great thing in the hardware market, and while I get how it can benefit the end user to have a plugin, I can’t see it benefiting FAS’s bottom line. At the end of the day, it’s a business and it’s about profitability, not what mkes someone’s life easier.
Being at the top of the high end hardware market trumps being one of countless titles in an increasingly saturated software market where it increasingly comes down to price and who is willing to go lowest.
Look at Waves, used to be thousands of dollars and now I get daily emails about cheap subscription models, $29 for any plugin sales etc. that is the software market these days, so I can’t see why FAS would change a winning formula to enter into that mess.
Any guitarist who records with the AxeFX wants AxeEdit to be a plugin, not an application.
This!Why? Why can't you do that with reamping? I know a lot of people are clamoring for this. It just seems like the best copy protection for Cliff and Fractal is just the way it is. Harder to reverse engineer. Plus he can avoid all the massive headaches having to make it compatible with every OS and application that might have conflicts. I like it the way it is, although I know my opinion is probably in the minority.
Line 6 is a huge company with marketing to the masses. They have products from every category.Has Fractal confirmed or denied this is something they plan on releasing in the future? (I don't think so)
Has the FAS Reverb plugin been hacked? (I don't think so)
Why is Line 6 thinking different about releasing a VST?
just speculating..
A plugin editor would be great and is something I've had on the side of the stove (not even back burner) for years.