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Hardware locks and dongles have not prevented the theft of MUCH more expensive software than this, so I highly doubt this thing is going to be pirate proof. Not one company has ever been able to do it yet.
Will I buy it? It really depends on the price. If it's $1000, then hell no. A real AxeFX is a better idea at that point for only $800 more. If it's more like $500-$600, then maybe.
About the demo...I'm pretty disappointed to hear that it will only run for a few minutes at a time. How are we suppose to tweak something this complex to see if we like it in a matter of minutes? Demos sell products...I hope Cliff takes note. Crippling a demo to only run a few minutes at a time would be a huge mistake for this kind of software IMO. Something like a beep every 30 seconds would be better...like what Revalver does.
Will I buy it? It really depends on the price. If it's $1000, then hell no. A real AxeFX is a better idea at that point for only $800 more. If it's more like $500-$600, then maybe.
About the demo...I'm pretty disappointed to hear that it will only run for a few minutes at a time. How are we suppose to tweak something this complex to see if we like it in a matter of minutes? Demos sell products...I hope Cliff takes note. Crippling a demo to only run a few minutes at a time would be a huge mistake for this kind of software IMO. Something like a beep every 30 seconds would be better...like what Revalver does.
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Originally Posted by cavemanic
I hope it drives down the price of the axe-fx standard
I don't imagine anything would drive the prices on the hardware units down until he's able to ramp up production and cut costs on components through price breaks on bigger quantities and whatnot. He's said somewhere in one of the threads that there's little margin as it is in the Axe-FX. So even if he did start to make some savings per unit in the cost, he might choose to just take the profit to start with until more significant cost reductions start happening (which, depending on what he actually is making per unit, might be entirely reasonable considering the amount of work that must have gone into it).
He's in a bit of a different position to say, Line 6, with their already big customer base, big production quantities, and cheap offshore manufacturing.
I don't imagine anything would drive the prices on the hardware units down until he's able to ramp up production and cut costs on components through price breaks on bigger quantities and whatnot. He's said somewhere in one of the threads that there's little margin as it is in the Axe-FX. So even if he did start to make some savings per unit in the cost, he might choose to just take the profit to start with until more significant cost reductions start happening (which, depending on what he actually is making per unit, might be entirely reasonable considering the amount of work that must have gone into it).
He's in a bit of a different position to say, Line 6, with their already big customer base, big production quantities, and cheap offshore manufacturing.
I meant the used price
-fx and the JVM
I meant the used price
Oh I see.
Even still, I'm not sure that it really would anyway. I don't imagine people with a hardware Axe would start selling up to buy the software instead. And they're sorta different beasts... I'd rather a rack Axe than having software, if only for the latency issue. But on top of that, I've got no laptop so I'd have to drag around a full desktop PC and monitor 'n' shit to use it. Even with a laptop, you're still carrying around a computer, an interface, and a MIDI switcher to use it live. I'd rather go hardware and have a small rack setup and if at home I want the benefits of the software like simple reamping 'n' whatnot, I'll sort that out myself.
So either demand has to go down, or supply has to go up.. and given the above, I'm not really sure if either of those would happen to a significant degree.
Oh I see.
Even still, I'm not sure that it really would anyway. I don't imagine people with a hardware Axe would start selling up to buy the software instead. And they're sorta different beasts... I'd rather a rack Axe than having software, if only for the latency issue. But on top of that, I've got no laptop so I'd have to drag around a full desktop PC and monitor 'n' shit to use it. Even with a laptop, you're still carrying around a computer, an interface, and a MIDI switcher to use it live. I'd rather go hardware and have a small rack setup and if at home I want the benefits of the software like simple reamping 'n' whatnot, I'll sort that out myself.
So either demand has to go down, or supply has to go up.. and given the above, I'm not really sure if either of those would happen to a significant degree.
The demand for used Axefx will go down, due to the option of getting the same tones from the software at a lower price.
There is a big community of software modeler users, and not everyone needs/wants to gig with it.
sounds good but doesnt the axe-fx have fairly decent processing power?
I would imagine it would take a bit of strain on the pc's cpu and thats not including other plug ins running at the same time :idk:
It turns out that modern CPU's (like Intel's Core2Duo) is many times faster than whats in the Axe FX. So it should run fine on a modern computer.
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