axifist
Experienced
Hm, I'm not sure if I agree. Those latencies you mention, they surely affect the tone, don't they? If you model the whole circuit idealized, you probably end up with an inferiour tone. Maybe that's one piece of the puzzle the Axe II and III separates from the Ultra/Standard and the other modellers out there.I'll add that even analog equipment has some latency, every capacitor and transistor in which the signal goes thru adds a few micro-seconds of latency, considering that you can easily find hundreds of them in a complex chain with various pedals, the total latency wouldn't be that far from a digital device.
I do however agree that latency isn't an issue. Of course it's not. BUT I hear this argument very often when people approach me e.g. after gigs or when I talk with musician friends about gear. The main arguments are "The simulation cannot be as good as the real deal", "The latency is bad for the playing, it doesn't feel right", "I like to see glowing tubes and the warmth in a real tube amp sound". None of them ever wanted to play my Axe. That's just how people are I guess...