No Warp and Externally Defined Amps on new DT Gear
The GNX4 and GNX3000 had two very interesting concepts :
A) Warp
This allowed users to create new amplifier models just by blending any two existing models.
While this was rather rudimentary and crude, it atleast allowed creation of many new tones.
Some parties did make commercial offerings of new patches based on the basic ability to warp.
Externally defined Amplifier and Cabinet definitions.
The Patch files of the GNX4 and GNX3000 contain all the information that defines new Amplifiers and Cabinets.
While this is not directly accessible to the lay guitarist, it is fairly easy to \"crack the code\". We ourselves licenced some software from a programmer who deciphered the patch format of the GNX4 / GNX3000/ Magic Stomp.
Both these methods allowed 3rd parties to add something to a user's DT experience.
We now see that new DT gear do not offer warp or externally defined Amplifiers and Cabinets.
DT never had any 3rd party software kit for programmers anyway.
This puts an end to whatever third party efforts there were in enhancing DT products.
We at Tones of Tones were expecting DT's next step to be that they also allowed user defined effects. This would have allowed programmers to write new modules like a better noise gate or some new novelty effect.
We though that DT was going in the direction of opening up and offering great hardware that anyone could easily add new programs to. This was one of the reasons of the ubiquity of the IBM Standard PC. You purchased a standard PC not because of what it was but because of what it could be with ample third party software and hardware add-ons.
It does appear at first look that giving up on warp and externally defined Amp/Cabs is a backward step.
Sunil
A) Warp
This allowed users to create new amplifier models just by blending any two existing models.
While this was rather rudimentary and crude, it atleast allowed creation of many new tones.
Some parties did make commercial offerings of new patches based on the basic ability to warp.
Externally defined Amplifier and Cabinet definitions.The Patch files of the GNX4 and GNX3000 contain all the information that defines new Amplifiers and Cabinets.
While this is not directly accessible to the lay guitarist, it is fairly easy to \"crack the code\". We ourselves licenced some software from a programmer who deciphered the patch format of the GNX4 / GNX3000/ Magic Stomp.
Both these methods allowed 3rd parties to add something to a user's DT experience.
We now see that new DT gear do not offer warp or externally defined Amplifiers and Cabinets.
DT never had any 3rd party software kit for programmers anyway.
This puts an end to whatever third party efforts there were in enhancing DT products.
We at Tones of Tones were expecting DT's next step to be that they also allowed user defined effects. This would have allowed programmers to write new modules like a better noise gate or some new novelty effect.
We though that DT was going in the direction of opening up and offering great hardware that anyone could easily add new programs to. This was one of the reasons of the ubiquity of the IBM Standard PC. You purchased a standard PC not because of what it was but because of what it could be with ample third party software and hardware add-ons.
It does appear at first look that giving up on warp and externally defined Amp/Cabs is a backward step.
Sunil