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dblm « Power + flexibility = perfection »
Published on 06/16/12 at 05:06Happy owner of an Axis-Ultra, I ordered the MFC-101 the day it was announced to be delivered .... 5 months later.
Common problem in Fractal with new products, but fortunately the production follows and is now available immediately.
With the Axis-Ultra, I found it perfect: extreme programmability, phantom power (48V not as a microphone, no, but the power supply through the cable that connects the MFC twelve o'clock with the Axis), excellent readability of the display, and the great thing is the LED for each switch, which can have three states: green if the corresponding effect is ON, red if available but the effect is bypassed, and the effect off if n is not available in the patch used.
Then I moved to the Ultra-Axe, and I found this perfect MFC proved even more proper: connect an Ethernet cable instead of a midday 7 pin, easier to find, replace as necessary and cost negligible, sync between the Axis and the MFC (= if we change the patch from the Axis pedals immediately follows), etc..
The only complaint (besides the spacing of the switches a little cramped for my big feet, but all are alike) that I could make the MFC-101, is the absence of an external software to program it in style of the Axe-Edit allows you to program the Axe-FX from a PC / Mac: sometimes you really rely on switches to pass the program pages before finding the choices we seek.
But this program is to ... program in Fractal, and should be available this year. The versatility of all Axis + MFC will be virtually infinite.
Finally, one could also blame Fractal still have not released the MFC-102 (?) As an extension to 101 and add 16 additional switches. Anyway, aside from me and Dweezil Zappa, who really needs a footswitch with 37 switches ......
Issue price, you can find only 750 euros for a pedal is a bit expensive. Yes but as said Bastien, Pascal's cousin, in the Tontons Flingueurs, the price is forgotten, the quality remains.
Note that even when the MFC is designed to work with the Axis, but can also be used with any MIDI system, and could be quite useful for guitarists (or keyboards). I also used to control some old pedals that I kept in my rack via Gizmo Effect of RJM: therefore I command patch as the axis with a given loop of RJM and that makes it easy (well, once you put your hands dirty for MIDI RJM).
Common problem in Fractal with new products, but fortunately the production follows and is now available immediately.
With the Axis-Ultra, I found it perfect: extreme programmability, phantom power (48V not as a microphone, no, but the power supply through the cable that connects the MFC twelve o'clock with the Axis), excellent readability of the display, and the great thing is the LED for each switch, which can have three states: green if the corresponding effect is ON, red if available but the effect is bypassed, and the effect off if n is not available in the patch used.
Then I moved to the Ultra-Axe, and I found this perfect MFC proved even more proper: connect an Ethernet cable instead of a midday 7 pin, easier to find, replace as necessary and cost negligible, sync between the Axis and the MFC (= if we change the patch from the Axis pedals immediately follows), etc..
The only complaint (besides the spacing of the switches a little cramped for my big feet, but all are alike) that I could make the MFC-101, is the absence of an external software to program it in style of the Axe-Edit allows you to program the Axe-FX from a PC / Mac: sometimes you really rely on switches to pass the program pages before finding the choices we seek.
But this program is to ... program in Fractal, and should be available this year. The versatility of all Axis + MFC will be virtually infinite.
Finally, one could also blame Fractal still have not released the MFC-102 (?) As an extension to 101 and add 16 additional switches. Anyway, aside from me and Dweezil Zappa, who really needs a footswitch with 37 switches ......
Issue price, you can find only 750 euros for a pedal is a bit expensive. Yes but as said Bastien, Pascal's cousin, in the Tontons Flingueurs, the price is forgotten, the quality remains.
Note that even when the MFC is designed to work with the Axis, but can also be used with any MIDI system, and could be quite useful for guitarists (or keyboards). I also used to control some old pedals that I kept in my rack via Gizmo Effect of RJM: therefore I command patch as the axis with a given loop of RJM and that makes it easy (well, once you put your hands dirty for MIDI RJM).