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FM3 Amp Modeler/FX Processor

Cygnus Amp Modeling, UltraRes™ Speaker Sims, and an incredible collection of Stompbox and Studio Effects


The FM3 is a compact all-in-one processor for guitar, bass, and other instruments. It features Fractal Audio’s industry-leading Cygnus amp modeling, UltraRes™ speaker cab simulation, plus an incredible collection of legendary stompbox and studio effects, all based on our award-winning flagship the Axe-Fx III. The unit is also a powerful foot controller with all of the programmable features of our larger FC controllers, plus a 4×4 USB audio interface — and more — all in a compact, rugged, floor unit designed for the studio or stage.

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FM3 800

 

FM3 800 rear

The Sound of Fractal Audio

Legen­dary Amp Modeling and Speaker Simula­tion
plus a Suite of Incre­dible Stompbox and Studio Effects


The FM3 fea­tures our la­test ARES Amp Mode­ling—a tech­nology developed by Fractal Audio for the award-winning Axe-Fx III. It captures the sound — and the equally important feel — of real tube amps, with 265+ models offering an imp­res­sive ran­ge of clean tones, elusive “edge of break­up”, and every­thing from warm, touch-sen­sitive over­drive to face-melting modern distortion.

The FM3 also inc­ludes the entire spea­ker cab im­pulse re­sponse (“IR”) collection from the Axe-Fx III, with a stunning 2,200+ “Factory” choices and 1,024 “User” locations to store custom sounds from free or commercial producers.

As a mul­ti-effects unit, the FM3 truly ex­cels. It inclu­des a superb selec­tion of Fractal Audio’s sta­te-of-the-art effect algorithms. All of the essentials and many exciting innovations are on board: dazzling drive pedals, dozens of delays, re­verbs, compres­sors, EQs, phasers, flan­gers and other modu­lation effects, a loo­per, and much more.

fm3 blocks

The Block Inven­tory of the FM3 is ba­sed on that of the award-win­ning Axe-Fx III.

FM3 Preset Examp­les (Screen Cap­tures of Ac­tual Fac­tory Pre­sets).

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Impres­sive USB Audio Capabi­lities

Play­back, Record, Re-Amp

With a USB con­nec­tion to a Mac or PC, the FM3 works as an extre­mely high qua­lity 4×4 audio inter­face for play­back, recor­ding, and re-amping. This lets the FM3 doub­le as the hub of a por­table recor­ding studio.

USB chan­nels are mapped for maxi­mum ease of use. For examp­le, to record the pro­ces­sed stereo out­put of the FM3, just record in­puts 1 and 2 in the com­puter. Compu­ter in­puts 3 and 4 can be used to cap­ture a DI, or to re­cord input 2 L+R in ste­reo.

Compu­ter play­back is also easy and fle­xible. For stu­dio work, you can mix a pro­ject and the FM3 to a sin­gle pair of con­nected moni­tors and tran­smit a sepa­rate DI to the FM3 for re-amping. For live per­forman­ces, you can route the ste­reo FM3 and ste­reo backing tracks to different stereo outputs.

USB also al­lows 2-way com­muni­cation bet­ween the FM3 and its com­panion soft­ware appli­cations, FM3-Edit and Fra­ctal-Bot.

fm3 3 4A Rugged Floor Unit

The FM3 is housed in a du­rab­le steel chassis with pro­tecti­ve endcaps desig­ned to with­stand the ri­gors of tou­ring.

Three on­board foot­switches – each with va­riab­le-color LED ring and mini LCD dis­play — pro­vide both tap and hold func­tions, which can be custo­mized to do dif­ferent things on eight dif­ferent switch “layouts.” The new “Views” fea­ture multi­plies the po­wer of layouts, in ef­fect crea­ting a virtual 12-button cont­rol­ler with a 3-but­ton foot­print.

In ad­dition, a FASL­INK II port al­lows the FM3 to be con­nec­ted with up to two Frac­tal Audio FC-12 or FC-6 foot cont­rolvlers, pro­viding an exci­ting array of exten­ded cont­rol op­tions.

While desig­ned as a floor unit, the FM3 fea­tures an intui­tive hands-on inter­face with the same full-color dis­play and fami­liar, easy-to-use front pa­nel cont­rols found on the Axe-Fx III.

The unit is po­wered by a 3-Core “Grif­fin” DSP with one ARM and two SHARC+ cores pro­viding supe­rior power in a com­pact format. A de­dicated graphics pro­ces­sor allows the main DSPs to be fo­cused on cri­tical audio tasks.

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Summary of Features

 

✔  FM3 is a com­pact floor unit with three on­board swit­ches.

✔  3-Core “Griffin” Pro­ces­sor plus dedi­ca­ted GPU.

✔  Hundreds of ac­cura­te mo­dels with real tu­be amp sound and feel.

✔  Rug­ged steel chas­sis with pro­tec­tive end­caps and hand­les.

✔  Fea­tures ARES Amp Mo­del­ing develo­ped for the Axe-Fx III.

✔  Easy-to-use front pa­nel inter­face, plus free FM3 Edit soft­ware.

✔  Inc­ludes all fac­­tory cabs from Axe-Fx III, plus 1,024 user cab slots.

✔  Ultra-low noise in­stru­ment in­put plus XLR ste­reo main out­puts.

✔  Impres­sive multi-ef­fects capa­bi­lity ba­sed on Axe-Fx III.

✔  Addi­tional Ste­reo I/O Pair, plus head­phone & SPDIF outputs.

✔  Uncom­promi­sing sound qua­lity and road-wor­thy relia­bi­lity.

✔ 4×4 USB Audio, 2 on­board switch/pe­dal jacks, MIDI In & Out/Thru.

✔  Fan­tasti­cally fle­xib­le 3-button inte­gra­ted foot con­trol­ler.

✔  Easy-to-Read pre­ci­sion Tu­ner with graph and vir­tual strobe dis­plays.

✔  FAS­LINK II al­lows ad­ding up to two FC-12/FC-6 cont­rol­lers.

✔  Upgra­deab­le firm­ware al­lows cons­tant impro­vement and in­nova­tion.

FM3 Amp Modeler/FX Processor   

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FM3 FC6 Rig 1920

 

 The FM3 is shown here with an FC-6 cont­rol­ler and one EV-2 Ex­pres­sion Pedal.

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