This is top class /r/shittykickstarters (and do t be fooled, this entire post exists just to shill a kickstarter)
There are plenty of mature, established modeling solutions on the market.
It's clear that you know a lot about this topic. That's great! and impressive. But in that case please contribute by sharing some of what you know so we all can learn.
There was a similar case the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903486.
There's no need to try to convince other people that this shouldn't impress them. That's usually a sign that you should just put the keyboard down and continue scrolling.
"Circle of madness" to me describes what HN would be without all of the effort to keep this place from devolving into a bunch of assholes crapping on every project.
> It isn't impressive at all. It's a toy [...] he completely fails to understand the market. It's a top class r/shittykickstarters.
I mean, for fuck's sake. Is this guy your arch nemesis? Just keep it cool.
This is also the focus in one of the mainstream modelling apps, ToneBridge, except it doesn't play along with tabs, so there is clearly a market for it.
This definitely is very useful to a huge chunk of the guitar player market.
This is absolutely perfect for anyone total beginner to high intermediate. It sits in the same space as any mid range amp modeller except it's voice controlled and can cue up a backing track and a tone to match it with just voice. It solves all of the things that intimidate new to mid range players and cause some to quit.
Do you know of any modeling solution where you can pick up your guitar and play without your hands ever leaving the guitar?
Do you know of any modeling solution that will automatically change your guitar tones during playback?
And automate your loopers?
And scroll lyrics and chords in perfect time?
And (eventually) automate your vocal effects, lights, fog machines, drone cameras and dancing baby Groot?
For < $150?
Thingamagig understands the underlying composition which is a critical component of advanced automation. No other solution on the market does this. If it did, I would have bought it and been done with it.
Except those all have pedalboards so you can do it all with your feet while playing if you are actually creating anything.
I’m still confused why you think all this total automation is a good thing. It’s like selling a sewing machine that only works with premade patterns.
I mean, have your own opinion and all but if you don't read, then it's not as valid.
I understand that the tone of these user's comments might be rubbing people wrong, but the criticisms were absolutely spot-on (including the one that got flagged/removed). As a DIY project, I think it's awesome...but as a product being brought to (a heavily saturated, well-trod) market it deserves criticism/skepticism.