USB Firmware V 1.14 BETA (Public Beta)

[Bruce Sokolovic]

Does this new firmware have any effect when reamping via spdif?

 

[Admin M@]

I did not get this dialog box from Fractal-Bot.

I think I figured out why and made a change to the instructions.

1. You don't actually need to select "Utility Mode". It works fine if you select "Axe-Fx III"
2. I think this determines whether or not the following confirmation is shown in Fractal-Bot:

 

[rhummellh]

I suspect you meant to say you're currently running 1.11? Versions 1.12 and 1.13 never made it out of beta.

I'm running 1.12 also. It was posted on forum awhile back. Not really relevant anymore. Just saying.

 

[AlbertA]

So just to be clear, that's the value we should use as DAW latency compensation to have perfect alignment when reamping, right?

If you want perfect alignment, yeah you could use additional fixed offset - the 24-32 sample offset is small enough that you could skip it without much of an issue (as @GlennO mentioned).




For example I can use "Use audio driver reported latency" with Reaper, I set my ASIO buffer size to 64, safe mode off and additional offset of 16 for input and 8 for output and it comes up pretty much aligned (this is a click track source, routed to In USB->Out 2, track 2 captures OUT 2 (USB IN 3)

EDIT: why at the end of your post do you mention a different number of samples for usb loopback as well? Is the first with just shunts and the latter with amp and cab blocks?

USB only loopback will not include DAC nor A/D latency so naturally it will be lower - this is just more of a FYI - i.e. hey everyone this is what I'm getting on my system. This is with a patch that looks like this:

 

[GlennO]

Does this new firmware have any effect when reamping via spdif?

Other than making spdif obsolete when used as a workaround for usb problems, no.

 

[DougB415]

I think I figured out why and made a change to the instructions.

1. You don't actually need to select "Utility Mode". It works fine if you select "Axe-Fx III"
2. I think this determines whether or not the following confirmation is shown in Fractal-Bot:

View attachment 104736

I reran it as suggested. Much faster and this time I did get the dialog box. Thanks M@!

 

[Rasmus Toftlund]

Great news, thank you!

 

[hedua]

Muchas gracias...

 

[Bruce Sokolovic]

Other than making spdif obsolete when used as a workaround for usb problems, no.

I'd love to know how else you can digitally reamp guitars and not use the axefx as an interface on a windows system (reliably).

 

[AlGrenadine]

I'd love to know how else you can digitally reamp guitars and not use the axefx as an interface on a windows system (reliably).

With usb and asio4all

 

[Bruce Sokolovic]

With usb and asio4all

asio4all I have not explored. Is it reliable? Right now my Apollo is rock solid and it took 3 witch doctors and a blood moon to make that happen. I'd hate to disrupt a working system to add minimal functionality.

 

[GlennO]

I'd love to know how else you can digitally reamp guitars and not use the axefx as an interface on a windows system (reliably).

I'm not sure how you got that from my comment. There are many situations where spdif can and should be used. I'm simply saying working around usb problems is no longer one of those situations.

 

[Bruce Sokolovic]

I'm not sure how you got that from my comment. There are many situations where spdif can and should be used. I'm simply saying working around usb problems is no longer one of those situations.

understood. Thank you for clarifying.

 

[ProfEmerald]

This USB Firmware made all my Marshall tones less organic.

....

 

[GuitarGuy316]

I wonder if it will fix this issue…

https://forum.fractalaudio.com/thre...iii-interface-with-usb-c.184669/#post-2285218

 

[rhummellh]

I wonder if it will fix this issue…

https://forum.fractalaudio.com/thre...iii-interface-with-usb-c.184669/#post-2285218

Did you try it on your setup yet? Give it a shot and let us know if it worked.

 

[State of Epicicity]

This USB Firmware made all my Marshall tones less organic.

....

They were never advertised as organic; they were supposed to be cage free.

 

[State of Epicicity]

This beta is amazing. I love to capture movable mics from various plugins as IRs to load to the Axe-FX III, and before this beta the latency was always substantial enough to discourage me from trying them realtime, but now there's no perceptible latency. Thank you so much for this! You guys truly never cease being The Best place for gearheads. Again, shame on every other company for not moving forward the way you guys do.

 

[Deleted member 55227]

Again, shame on every other company for not moving forward the way you guys do.

Yepp....they just worked right from the start, shame on them...... (didn't know the other yet "unnamed" company, but I'm sure there must be one out in the world.......)

Thanks FAS, looking forward for a final version. Much thx.....

 

[fremen]

Well, I call that a success. And the timing couldn't be better for me, as I'm about to reamp all the guitar and bass tracks of a death metal album. I couldn't test the beta firmware 20.01/20.02 for that same reason, I was too busy tracking the guys and didn't want any change in the presets sounds during the process. Here's a short sample :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zxom9hh8zrlm5tp/Cryptic_Carnage.mp3?dl=0
This is with the sound used for tracking (channel 16 in the picture below), it has been refined for reamping. This is far from a definitive mix too of course, I'll work on the mix after the reamping is completed