Like many others I’m a long time guitar player and have owned more Fender and Squire guitars than I can count. So weird how I am completely put off by the brand for any other thing besides electric guitars and amps. Even their effect pedal line which has been around for awhile I’ve always been pretty ambivalent towards, their acoustics are crap too. If Fender is trying to become the next Yamaha it’s going to take awhile to think of that brand as anything other than Strats Teles Deluxe Reverbs and the like
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… especially with so many people five years behind the news cycle.
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Fender has been a brand passed around by corporations since 1968. Besides Rhodes pianos everything has been kinda crappy and has just gotten crappier. I think this thing looks great. They should have used some variation on the whole “caster” thing though. Beatcaster?
Thanks for this! I wasn’t aware, as I couldn’t care less about guitars and know next to nothing about Fender in particular. However, I loved Presonus Studio One and the old controllers from them, so I found these to be a nice evolution of these old designs.
Carry on 
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I’d be interested in objective detail on the various chord modes of these two.
I watched some videos, and read some, and it sounded like a nice improvement but i couldn’t get a clear idea of how it worked, nor how the pad usage context-awareness is done.
Anything product related would be nice, or other thoughts on them using newly created Fatar polyphonic-aftertouch pads.
Watched a few minutes of the promo video…I’m just curious who told Fender that the world needed another Midi controller. There’s a glut of these things at every music store and not much to differentiate them.
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Pity The Quest for Groove has been silent lately because I would instantly watch a review from them (even if I have no interest in these controllers right now).
A wild guess - Studio One/Pro users?
Literally the userbase of every DAW asks for dedicated controller, that offers specific features and workflow characteristic for it.
Only few of them had their wish fulfilled - Ableton has Push & Move, FL Studio has Akai Fire and Novation keyboards. Mostly because of the fact that these DAWs are very popular and widespread, therefore it’s less risky to design, develop and manufacture for them, because there’s a lot of at least potential buyers.
In case of Studio One/Pro, i.e. earlier Presonus and now Fender, it definitely helped that both companies also do hardware - mixing consoles, audio interfaces, speakers, guitars. So for them it was less risky and cheaper to do a new MIDI controller, than it would be for Bitwig, Reason or Reaper.
I thought this side of it was rather obvious? 
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Ableton Live integration:
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