anyone know how long it usually is between out of stock and in stock?
Axe-fx out of stock
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biggness
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Few days to about a week or so is the norm.
Opeth666
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wow Fractal is making a killing on these things huh
ok phew! just sold my mark v so i am without a rig until i get the axe!!
biggness
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brodjentle
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shit yeah i was talkin about that the other day with my buddy
eventhetrees
What's a Panini?
Sell Outs.
In a positive sense.
just heard from Fractal that it will be a couple of weeks. Ouch! I am without a proper rig until I get it! Oh well. will be awesome no matter how long i have to wait.
eventhetrees
What's a Panini?
Of course lmao
I want one soo bad
So good to hear they are doing very well business wise! Hopefully the demand does not sacrifice their quality!
Sippin40oz
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Must be making a fortune on these things now days. The design hasnt really changed in years and i would assume dsp chips and screens etc have all dropped in price a lot as the tech gets older. Add to that econmies of scale on the increase in units sold!
Think we need a new updated unit to GAS over!
Think we need a new updated unit to GAS over!
Must be making a fortune on these things now days. The design hasnt really changed in years and i would assume dsp chips and screens etc have all dropped in price a lot as the tech gets older. Add to that econmies of scale on the increase in units sold!
Think we need a new updated unit to GAS over!
Given the chips used were literally bleeding edge when the system was designed not sure how much improvement / cost dropping has taken place. DSP cpus don't tend to evolve as quickly as PC cpus. The economy of scale has to be helping a good bit though
I think we're likely to see products Fractal has in-progress come out before we see a new Axe unit. The foot controller just finally released a couple of weeks ago, the editor isn't at 1.0 yet, and the software version w/associated hardware controller is still in progress. Not to mention ongoing firmware updates, since the existing models and effects aren't tapping out the current hardware yet.
Zehailiu
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How long has it been since its official release?
Wow it's actually been longer than I thought... I just looked and I was on the waiting list in early 2007, which I believe was when they released
Using a bit of google-foo the Ultra uses the BittWare TigerSHARC ADSP-TS201S processor running at 600MHz. This is till their top of the line chip.
Using a bit of google-foo the Ultra uses the BittWare TigerSHARC ADSP-TS201S processor running at 600MHz. This is till their top of the line chip.
Really?
I was told on the weekend it would be early this week.
LAME
I want the Axe.
Zehailiu
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600mhz?
What could they do if they used like a quadcore pentium chip? @_@
What could they do if they used like a quadcore pentium chip? @_@
beneharris
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that would be majorly overkill. 600mhz is blazing fast for things like that. their software would be the bottleneck at this point i believe
biggness
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Actually, pound for pound, dsp's pwn the ever living hell out of "regular" processors. Dsp's are purpose built, as where processors have to cover a lot of "unknown" if that makes sense. I will see if I can find the post I read where Cliff benchmarked the Ultra against an i7 quad core Mac Pro with amazing results.
Andromalia
Pardon my french
In that kind of apps, power isn't necessarily the prime objective, latency is. Modeling doesn't require so much power, it just requires the proper algorythms. Your quad pentium chip would likely be able to process an orchestra of edges playing with 4 delays each...with a latency making it useless for live purposes.
In a broader topic, specialised apps and hardware require less power than multipurpose ones. (which a computer is) Take your cell phone, what good would it make to have a quad core inside, it wouldn't make you talk faster. ^^
To summarize a whole hell of a lot less than it does now. DSP chips are specialized and do exponentially more work per clock cycle with much lower latency than general purpose CPUs like those used in desktop/laptop computers. That's why specialized processors exist.
Definitely post that, I missed it
The Axe should pwn a desktop because there's no storage latency etc etc etc that you have with a desktop.
