AxeFX plugin? Good for them, and the Fractal users. No more waiting lists, ridiculous wait times, and constant hardware upgrades that render prior units "worthless."
Without bothering to read those threads, doesn't that just mean they have to find another chip, do some circuitry/software/firmware updates?
Not necessarily a simple/trivial task - but still something done something like EVERY DAY in the world of computing?
(maybe not every day, but you understand...)
The programmers have likely known for quite a while that this was a probability.
They could be be releasing a plugin, as well as a new hardware line.
Could Account for no waiting list and FX II- XL and MFC 101 pedal on sale as package for $2599 through today..... I almost ordered but I'm not a big effects guy so couldn't see doing it
If the plugin comes out people's AXE FX hardware will depreciate quote a lot, then someone will crack the plug and Fractal will make no money 
... and a more-realistic reflection of the modelling algorithms' true value will likely emerge...
I almost ordered the AXE FX combo last night and then thought! I have a Kemper , I don't use a ton of weird effects, Why Order! So I didn't 
I don't think this would be a reason not to have a future hardware AxeFX. Even if the DSP architecture was completely different (unlikely) the intellectual work to figure out how to produce those effects and amp simulations is still valid, so it would be a question of porting those algorithms to a new architecture. That's definitely work, but it's hugely less work than building something starting with nothing at all. Same with the profiler, it's not the code that runs on the DSPs that's the valuable thing, it's the algorithms that code implements. There's a degree of investment in taking those algorithms and making them run efficiently on the hardware, and that investment is hardware-specific, but ultimately it's not the largest part of the cost.
Exactly.
Why Cliff would risk pissing all that work away by way of subjecting his IP to piracy (through plugin release) is beyond me.
LOL sound great.