Rumor: next gen Fractal Axe-Fx in the works

[cardinal]

I’m dumb as a rock with modeling units. I thought nam was neural quad cortex’s own brand thing?? Fractal is adopting that? Or adding it to their own style of modeling? Don’t beat me up here, I am just trying to understand. Educate my dumn self please lol.
I’d like a modeler to mess around with sometime but I may be too tech challenged to ever figure it out lol

It's confusing, but NAM is open source I believe and is not the proprietary capture tech of Neural DSP.

 

[DrewJD82]

What I’m more interested in for the next Fractal unit is how much changes with the UI.

Personally, I’m fine with it as is and kinda hope Cliff DOESN’T make it idiot proof/for the masses because there’s less dumbasses that will turn up as a result. I already think they should be sold after passing a basic IQ test and only after passing said test, just not to annoy other Fractal owners with dipshittery.

 

[sandman]

Not knowing stuff is fine, it's pretending you do when you don't that's obnoxious.

Fractal hasn't really said much though. We don't know if it's going to specifically be official Neural Amp Modeling tech or some other proprietary tech Fractal is coming up with on their own.

Either way I think the implication is that the next gen Fractal stuff will have both traditional white box modeling where the actual schematic is known and emulated at the component and signal path level in conjunction with measurements of the real deal examples, as well as black box amp profiling where you just put an amp through some kind of analyzer that sends signals into it and measures what comes out, and builds some kind of amp profile based on that.

Ahhh makes sense. Thanks!

 

[Shask]

I’m dumb as a rock with modeling units. I thought nam was neural quad cortex’s own brand thing?? Fractal is adopting that? Or adding it to their own style of modeling? Don’t beat me up here, I am just trying to understand. Educate my dumn self please lol.
I’d like a modeler to mess around with sometime but I may be too tech challenged to ever figure it out lol

NAM is Neural Amp Modeler. It is free software online that captures tones and uses machine modeling to make clones of the sound. Said to be the most accurate capture process currently. ToneX is based on a similar process.

Neural Quad Cortex is totally different.