KVR Audio

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:38 pm

just a little fyi: next firmware release is adding models for:

Uberschall
5150
Dr. Z MAZ38
Deliverance 60

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:11 pm

Divinity - new clip using AFX.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7315911

Recto model.

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:32 pm

Very cool - I wish I were independently wealthy!

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:18 pm

Integratron wrote:Very cool - I wish I were independently wealthy!

yeah.

Guy from Divinity was cool enough to share his patches online as well... just played with them. They are phenomenal. Heavy, but articulate. I freakin' love this machine...

metalifuxx · Post by **metalifuxx** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:38 am

If anyone is in the U.S. and has Comcast, On Demand, in the Music>Guitar Lessons>Gear Reviews section, the dude from Guitar World does a 10 minute video review of the Axe FX. I just saw this yesterday so I don't know how much longer it will be up for. Basically he just goes through some presets and raves about how tube like and the how the response is dynamic etc. Shows some of the interface, and of course you hear how it sounds. The reviewer is using a Gibson Les Paul Custom.

I think I would really have to test it firsthand though. He only showcases some presets that are all drenched in fx. The first preset he plays is the Sweet Child preset which did sound pretty close to Slash's signature sound because he was using an LP.

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:42 pm

same as this?

metalifuxx · Post by **metalifuxx** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:57 am

OzoneJunkie wrote:same as this?

Yeah, I happened to see it On Demand on cable. Didn't know it was on Youtube already, but I should have known it would be too.

AndrewSimon · Post by **AndrewSimon** » Tue May 05, 2009 4:33 pm

Wah
http://reflexlive.com/marcoposting.cfm

http://www.inrerocknroll.com/tunes/Purple.mp3
Some marinblues action:

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Tue May 05, 2009 4:45 pm

Is there a software version of this axe-fx coming out?

Frantiac · Post by **Frantiac** » Tue May 05, 2009 8:01 pm

http://www.fractalaudio.com/forum/viewt ... =11&t=2383 (34 pages of it

)

AndrewSimon · Post by **AndrewSimon** » Thu May 07, 2009 5:06 pm

DELAY_AY__AY___AY____AY
http://www.mysticworks.com/tunes/duper_dub.mp3
http://www.mysticworks.com/tunes/m@_space_crunch.mp3
http://www.mysticworks.com/tunes/m@_Q-Delay.mp3
http://www.javajunkiemusic.com/Audio/delaydiff.mp3
http://www.javajunkiemusic.com/Audio/axedelay8plex.mp3

BFunKu · Post by **BFunKu** » Fri May 08, 2009 3:18 am

A3ntar wrote:
jens wrote: I just tried it, but upon loading it crashed my host - deleted!
It loaded just fine on my shiny new Babya Logic 3

.

How could it? Isn't it Hardware? What are they making Hardware demo versions now?

spinedoc · Post by **spinedoc** » Sat May 09, 2009 4:41 am

OverRated amp sim. Nice to play through but not woth this type of cash. You can do it as well with recording situations and much cheaper amp sims.

YMMV of course.

Didi · Post by **Didi** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:03 pm

The only thing 100% unique in Axe-fx is the mere software. Equivalent hardware may be acquired for a fraction of that cost, include Amplitube.

I don't know if the software that comes with this is so superior than amplitube.

I may save you a lot of time to buy the whole thing ready to go if you have the bucks.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu May 14, 2009 7:59 am

Didi wrote:The only thing 100% unique in Axe-fx is the mere software. Equivalent hardware may be acquired for a fraction of that cost, include Amplitube.

I don't think that's entirely true. From what I know, the overall (audio in to audio out that is) latency of the Axe FX hardware is something around 2-3 ms (if not less, I don't remember exactly), regardless of the settings used. To get close to that from a computer and software, you'd need something like an Apogee Symphony setup running at 96kHz. Ok, these days, one can get a setup delivering figures around 5-6 ms of overall latency for not too much money, but it might still be quite taxing your CPU. Also, once you add, say, an IR loading module, you may as well be quite in the 10 ms area of overall latency.
In addition, for live players (especially for guitarists), laptops are still a hassle to deal with. Not so with the Axe FX. You just put it into a rack, connect your MIDI floorpedal to it and be done.

Personally, I also heard some Axe FX clips that are really astonishingly good (one JCM 800 model clip has been mentioned somewhere in this thread, made by Paco Casanovas, that one is extremely convincing IMO), without any competition in software land. Especially those "slightly more than crunch, yet nicely cleaning up and following your playing dynamics" sounds (such as in the mentioned JCM 800 clip) are something I haven't heard from software yet (and not from things like a hardware POD or so, either).

Unfortunately, nobody in this area of the world seems to own an Axe FX, shops don't have it either - and I seriously won't buy something that expensive (yes, it *is* expensive) without trying first.

- Sascha

Guitar players! The search for Amp Sims is over AXE-FX