What's Digitech Up To?

[AZG]

Originally Posted by eriwebnerr

I hope I'm not overstating the obvious BUT - my first hope when this was posted was for a new generation amp modeler / processor.

But looking closer at the title of the video "The future of guitar EFFECTS ..." and then the new website with the guy's magic finger, they all seem to indicate effects NOT amp models.

Could it be they are releasing an effects only platform ( a la M13) with a touch interface??

After watching the video again and looking at some of the other links posted, I would have to agree with you. Seems like they are pushing the interface more than the sound quality so I am not expecting much.

[burningyen]

Originally Posted by ksandvik

Hmm, wasn't this announced March 11 this year?

Yep:

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/sho...d.php?t=869813

[burningyen]

Originally Posted by _pete_

separate pitch and mod FX blocks

YES!

[huutevar]

The important thing is that in June 2011 "All Will Change". or not...

[burningyen]

They should have called it the Effects Rapture.

[Guitar Vilain]

If Digitech continues development of new products in the same direction as it's been for the past decade, it will be a box with one pedal, inputs & outputs, an effect level knob and a bypass switch. No complicated parameters, in fact no programming at all. MIDI? You've got to be joking! It has to be so simple even an untrained monkey can operate it, because according to Digitech's line of thinking, that's exactly what guitarists are.

[forum_crawler]

Originally Posted by Guitar Vilain

If Digitech continues development of new products in the same direction as it's been for the past decade, it will be a box with one pedal, inputs & outputs, an effect level knob and a bypass switch. No complicated parameters, in fact no programming at all. MIDI? You've got to be joking! It has to be so simple even an untrained monkey can operate it, because according to Digitech's line of thinking, that's exactly what guitarists are.

Unless you take into consideration the new whammy...

[Elmer]

Originally Posted by mwc2112

That could be interesting.

http://3dbresearch.com/Technology.htm

I hope whatever is coming will actually be revolutionary and not just gimmicky.

From that link:

"Our musIQ SmartStrum™ technology analyzes guitar strumming in order to extract patterns - a technology that is making it possible for guitar players to set up complex delay patterns in seconds simply by strumming their guitar!"

Hmmm....

[Will Chen]

Originally Posted by Electric I

http://www.digitech.com/en-US/news/h...hnology-leader

Originally Posted by Elmer

From that link:

"Our musIQ SmartStrum™ technology analyzes guitar strumming in order to extract patterns - a technology that is making it possible for guitar players to set up complex delay patterns in seconds simply by strumming their guitar!"

Hmmm....

I've had first hand experience with the MusIQ stuff in th Digitech Timebender and it works phenomenally well. Strum a pattern and it would create a matching multi-tap delay, play a chord and it would choose a harmonization key. I have no doubt this type of functionality will be included in the next round of Digitech units and I imagine folks are going to love it. This may be part of that announcement, but it doesn't explaining all the swiping in the vid nor the image on the nextgen site.

[eriwebnerr]

Originally Posted by AZG

After watching the video again and looking at some of the other links posted, I would have to agree with you. Seems like they are pushing the interface more than the sound quality so I am not expecting much.

Yah, I have to say that I really didn't like the tones in the background of the video. But then again, Digitech has always had bad sound samples of their own gear.

The domain name of the new website (nextgen) as well as the little message at the end of the video ( all will change ) would seem to indicate a completely new modeler. But all the other stuff I mentioned seems to point to just effects or just an interface change.

I am just confused. I thought L6 was the King of tease with their marketing, but this is even more vague ..

[tatkovladko]

First time I've heard of MusIQ™ technology. Only wish everyone would stop with the "very clever" names, they are CheeSI™. "POD HD" suddenly starts to sound pretty good.

[epluribus]

Funny how Digitech seems to have parallel market lines...one with all the brains and a cutesy fiddly package, and another with the same (very nice) brains in a package with all the standard control conventions and connectivity for the workin' pro. Does it really all come down to buttons and jacks?

[JMP2203]

any news?

[tatkovladko]

Originally Posted by epluribus

...one with all the brains and a cutesy fiddly package

I'd call that package optimal. Not arguing, just notice the all metal rugged construction even on RP250, XLR jacks on RP350 and up, totally amazing intuitive grid-based operation, huge readable (and admittedly not pretty, but we're talking pro functionality not beauty) display, etc. RP1000 I'd venture to say is almost a masterpiece in terms of design. That's "affordable pro quality" in my book Well done Digitech. I bet a lot of people wish Line6 made $150 and $200 price point "equivalent" (to RP255/RP355) products of the HD line.

[epluribus]

^^ Some truth in that. Even my ancient RP300 (and my kid's BP50 come to think of it) was made with a stout metal package and stomps that work to this day...very nice machinery. The rear-panel connectivity was more my thinking. The RP 1000 is indeed very well equipped, even with two FX loops, one for stomp line level, and one for rack line levels...very nice.

The fiddly part comes in the junior versions that feature nice DI jacks and USB, but less connectivity of other sorts. For stage and studio I truly miss those things. One feature I particularly miss is MIDI jacks, which only show up on the GSP1101. The old GNX series had them, and it's an incredibly useful feature onstage...it allows you to run the stompboard any way you want far beyond what the built-in switching and exp pedals allow. If you guys haven't tried running a multi-FX stomp board with something like an FCB1010, you really should give it a whirl...really opens up the board and the stage functionality becomes dirt-simple and very powerful.

But all that said, they've done some terrific work over the years, and I too am a huge fan of the parameter grid that they've stuck with since the early RP days. Learn one, you learned 'em all. Very intuitive too, once you understand what they do. And the coolest part is that you get the top-of-the-line tones no matter which price point you pick.

--Ray