Axis v0.8.3-beta

Axis v0.8.3-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

Fixed

• FM3 block types now populate for every effect. Phaser, Chorus, Tremolo, Filter and Flanger
  showed an empty Type list and a blank type name; the model list is now resolved from the
  block's own TYPE data. (Closes the same gap wherever the data already ships for other gen-3
  devices.)
• Per-block channel A–D switching refreshes the editor. Switching a block's channel now reloads
  that channel's type and parameter values, instead of leaving the editor showing channel A.
• Delay block editor no longer crashes. Opening Delay hit a fatal duplicate-page-name error —
  its device layout ships a page named "More" that collided with the built-in catch-all "More"
  page. Page names are now de-duplicated (this also un-hides Delay's real "More" controls).

Changed

• Bundled ForgeFX engine picks up the FM3 block-type and channel-read fixes above.

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Axis v0.8.2-beta

Axis v0.8.2-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

Added

• Two more devices — Axe-Fx II and VP4 (community beta). Axis now detects and edits the
  Axe-Fx II family (the 4×12 grid, 8 scenes, X/Y channels, per-block params, bypass, and
  preset backup) and the VP4 (its 4-slot serial chain, block params, bypass, and save). Both
  auto-detect over USB-MIDI, or force the profile manually in the Axis hub → Connection. These
  ship untested on hardware — treat them as beta and confirm changes on the device. Known
  limits this release:
  • VP4 lists the blocks a preset contains, but their order reflects discovery order, not
    the true physical slot (the slot-position read isn't decoded yet); writes are limited to
    continuous knob values, bypass, and save — block placement, scene switching, and rename are
    not yet decoded and are disabled.
  • Axe-Fx II is the more complete of the two; routing cables aren't drawn on its grid yet
    (blocks render and edit; the signal path between them isn't visualised).

Changed

• Bundled ForgeFX engine gains the Axe-Fx II (gen-2) and VP4 device drivers plus their
  handshake / port-name detection; the forgefx-midi codec enables both model IDs.

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Axis v0.8.1-beta

Axis v0.8.1-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

See the commit history for changes in this build.

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Axis v0.8.0-beta

Axis v0.8.0-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

Added

• Axis in the browser — no install. Open axisapp.live and click Launch Axis in web:
  the browser talks to your device directly over Web MIDI (FM9, Axe-Fx III, AM4 — or any unit
  through a MIDI interface) or Web Serial (FM3 over USB), running the full ForgeFX engine
  in-page. Everything works like the desktop app: the grid, block editing, scenes, tuner and
  meters, preset history with undo, snapshots and full-device backups (stored in the browser),
  free-tier cloud sync, and the local storage folder — pick a real folder on disk
  (Chrome/Edge) and get the same Presets/ library + Sync/ mirror as on desktop. The landing
  page's second button, Launch Axis Remote, is the existing control-your-PC mode.
  Browser support: Chrome/Edge on desktop = everything; Firefox & Android = MIDI devices (no
  FM3-over-USB, no folder picker); iOS/Safari can't reach devices — use Axis Remote there.

Changed

• ForgeFX engine 0.5.0-beta: the device logic, version store, local folder and cloud sync now run
  on a portable runtime shared verbatim between the Node server and the browser (the HTTP API is
  unchanged — verified route-for-route by a parity test suite).

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Axis v0.7.1-beta

Axis v0.7.1-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

Added

• Preset history with undo/redo. Every edit to the active preset — knob moves, block
  place/remove/move, cables, bypass, channel, type, scene and renames — is recorded as a readable
  changelog ("Amp1 · Drive 4.2 → 6.8"). Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z undo and redo by replaying the
  inverse writes on the device; a knob drag coalesces into a single step. The History panel (new
  rail button) lists every step with revert-to-here; history persists per preset across restarts.
  Loading a snapshot/file into the edit buffer sets a barrier — the log is kept, undo stops there.
• Unsaved-changes guard. Closing Axis with an edited (unsaved) buffer now asks first — a native
  dialog on the desktop app, the browser prompt in web mode.
• Local storage folder. Pick a folder (Axis hub → Storage) and Axis manages Presets/ — a
  browsable .syx library scanned straight from disk (drop your collections in; audition any of
  them into the edit buffer without touching device slots; "Save to Axis folder" from the browser's
  context menu) — and Sync/ — your preset versions mirrored as plain, tool-readable .syx files
  plus an index, auto-synced after every snapshot/backup, unlimited, no account needed. A
  Restore action re-imports everything on a fresh machine.
• Cloud preset sync for free accounts. Preset versions + full-device backups now sync for
  everyone: the free plan includes 3 MB of preset storage, your most recent full device backup,
  and 5 snapshots (a full FM3 backup is ~1.6 MB — it fits comfortably); supporters stay
  unlimited. The account panel shows a live storage/snapshot usage bar, and a new full backup
  replaces the previous one in the cloud after a confirmation. Nothing is ever deleted from a
  formerly-supporter account — over-quota pushes are refused, never pruned silently.

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Axis v0.7.0-beta

Axis v0.7.0-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

Added

• Grid Map navigator. A collapsible miniature of the whole signal chain inside the block
  editor — tap a block to jump the editor to it, tap an empty cell to add a block there, tap a
  port to route. Fit-to-width with zoom; built for mobile, handy everywhere.
• Tap-to-connect routing. Tap a port to arm it (no more drag needed), then tap ANY block in a
  later column — on the map or the main grid, even across mobile pages. Shunts are laid
  automatically across any distance.
• Audition presets (Axe-Change style). Library device presets get an "Audition" action that
  loads them into the edit buffer without switching slots or saving anything.
• Foot Controller editor on FM9 and Axe-Fx III. FM9 gets the full layout × switch editor via
  its device-true address model; the Axe-Fx III gets flat per-config editing. Writes are blind
  (no live read-back yet) but device-true; live read-back stays FM3-only for now.
• Device Tools for every model. Backup/restore a preset as .syx, offline-decode .syx
  files, validate firmware files, and view the modifier model — each section appears when the
  connected device supports it (this also brings the former AM4-only tools to the FM3/FM9/III).

Changed

• The bundled engine was rebuilt on a per-device driver architecture over the shared
  forgefx-midi codec package, with a unified, capability-driven API. Every FM3 response was
  byte-for-byte verified unchanged through the migration; the recurring
  wrong-codec-for-the-device bug class is structurally gone.
• Cloud badges are honest now: a preset that is on the device can no longer be mislabeled
  "Cloud only"; entries without a comparable revision show a neutral "sync state unknown".

Fixed

• Axe-Fx III on Windows connects again — detection previously never switched off the FM3
  profile for USB-MIDI-only units, so every request timed out ("device offline").
• Export to disk works for device presets — it had been silently broken from the start
  (the export hit an API route that never existed) and now downloads a real dump.

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Axis v0.6.4-beta

Axis v0.6.4-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

Fixed

• AM4 responsiveness (follow-up). The background preset-watch was still querying the gen-3
  preset-name function every few seconds on an AM4 — a request it can't answer, so each one timed
  out (~1.2 s of lag). It's now skipped on the AM4, which tracks its preset through its own read.

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Axis v0.6.3-beta

Axis v0.6.3-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

Fixed

• AM4 no longer stalls. Gen-3 telemetry polling (audio meters, tuner) was wrongly running
  against an AM4 and flooding its MIDI link with frames it never answers — making every action
  lag about a second. Those polls are now gated off for the AM4, which uses its own engine.

Added

• Installable app (PWA) at axisapp.live — add it to your home screen for a standalone,
  full-screen control surface with free rotation (auto-rotate). Web only; the desktop app is unchanged.
• Scene names in the top bar, with inline rename.
• Preset rename — the ✎ next to the preset name, and Rename & save in the Library
  right-click menu (renames a stored preset in place and returns you to the preset you were on).

Changed

• Control surface fits the window. Your column count is now a preferred maximum: an ultrawide
  monitor shows many columns, a narrow window or phone scales down to a legible few — instead of
  forcing one fixed count everywhere.
• Real output metering. The top-bar meter shows calibrated dB read from the device; the cable
  signal-flow animation is smoothed and follows the live output level (silent = still, louder = faster).

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Axis v0.6.2-beta

Axis v0.6.2-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

See the commit history for changes in this build.

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Axis v0.6.1-beta

Axis v0.6.1-beta — community beta. A standalone editor for Fractal devices that bundles the ForgeFX engine — one install, no setup.

See the commit history for changes in this build.

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