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It shows a few different use cases, too.
Lots more explanation from 11:09 in this one.
EDIT...watched the videos above and think i'm a bit clearer!
AMT CP-100: £169
Neunaber Iconoclast: £249
Two Notes Torpedo CAB: £419
Aside from being cheaper, the Digitech has at least one advantage over each of them. It's physically smaller than the Two Notes, it's got more easily-repeatable settings than the Neunaber and it's 9V as opposed to the AMT's 12V.
I just don't understand why they didn't give it a USB port so we could load our own impulses onto it. Hell, they could even sell us new IRs for it.
Madness.
2 - They could make SOMUCHFKNMONEY by selling IRs that they could easily swallow the cost of the extra bits and still make a boatload of notes and then some. The fact that it's limited to eight cabs (with a depth filter, admittedly) is its only downside compared with the others. Hell, it even does stereo which none of them can.
It's essentially a vastly superior unit with a single, glaring flaw which will probably relegate it to "the best option for a backup unit, but I'll go with something more expensive and flexible if I'm going to be using it all the time". Damn shame, that.
I'm actually working on a project to add the ability to transfer files to an embedded system and it's really not a trivial change.
You are going to need a usb chipset + mount a usb socket and then you are going to have to have the ability to mount a filesystem (and actually have a file system) and include some volatile storage and then you are going to need some mechanism to validate and checksum the content that gets sent isn't corrupt etc. You also need to have a more sophisticated logic in the device that understands what it does while it's being updated and mutes the audio rather than just being hard coded to slurp the bits out of a ROM chip on boot. It's quite possible that the microcontrollers used in the pedals aren't even going to have enough grunt (or maybe even the I/O) to run an SPI bus to even talk to a USB so you might be into buying a more sophisticated microcontroller and running an RTOS on it rather than just writing bare metal code.
Then you are going to have to do some development to create a driver and GUI app which will need to work on Windows and OSX and people will bitch about the fact that it doesnt work with a mobile phone and you will have to keep producing software updates to work with various new operating systems or it ends up like the other products they've done like that end up obsolete when they get stuck with support only on an old OS which no one uses anymore.
Even if it was only a few quid stuck on the BoM then suddenly you are up at the price of the AMT and you aren't the cheapest anymore and one thing I'm fairly sure of is that 90% of users aren't going to bother uploading IRs to it. I'm a moderately geeky person and I'm sure I wouldn't bother. I started doing it with my Amplifire and it was just torture especially on a low end device where each time you upload an IR there is a delay of a minute so you can't actually do a meaningful A/B test.
I'd much rather have it be cheaper and less configurable assuming they have done a good job with the built in sounds.
They also probably want to hide the fact that I bet the built in IRs are probably really low resolution which probably no one will notice until they know how low they are at which point they will suddenly decide they don't like them anymore.
Yeah, I mean, there are a lot of IRs out there, a lot of which don't sound particularly great. I wonder how it will compare overall with guys like Rosen Digital who pretty much only make IRs. I think Neunaber changed their minds and let you add your own. Maybe that's why it costs so much.
There's another alternative, too - Mooer's Micro Preamp series. They all have some sort of digital cab emulation going on; I'm not sure if you can separate it from the preamp operation, though. I believe they're coming in at around £95.
I'm definitely going to buy one to try, particularly as I have a couple of 'Amp-In-A-Box' pedals (couple of catalinbreads, wampler, and a Joyo Tech21 clone... which is really good for the price!) and combined with my Focusrite Interface and KRKs (or decent set of headphones) could possibly be a winner for an ampless rig... not to mention the fun of having various cabs for home use!! Given I'm not really gigging right now, & have been looking at new amps anyway, I like the idea of a versatile home practice setup that can work at low enough volumes not to piss off my neighbours. ;-)
The only slight negative is that it only lets you do guitar or bass for the two cab outputs - maybe I'm picky, but the idea of being able to feed guitar into a bass cab alongside a guitar one too - or at least an emulation! - would be cool to experiment with.