Nah, I appreciate your inputs! I’m just fighting GAS. I’m pretty sure I’d love the AH+FX, but really, it’d be a luxury purchase at most 
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I mean, if you wanna challenge yourself, what happens if you don’t use your plugs and instead the Heat? Like you, I don’t multi-track, which creates a smoother and more defined workflow, at the expense of flexibility. Or is that actually a benefit, perhaps? 
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It’s driving me potty that tapping “Heat” doesn’t show the other pages like the other buttons do @.@
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This is ridiculous!
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I’ve had the heat mkll some time ago and liked it lot for sending stems or whole mixes through (which I’ll be using the heat+FX for as well), but I mainly want to use the heat+FX as a guitar FX processor. Is there anyone here who tried going into the heat+FX directly from the guitar and can comment on how well that works in terms of latency? I know the warble will definitely introduce a few milliseconds, but I can live with that. How’s the latency without the warble effect?
One thing I can’t find in the manual: how many destinations can I target via the expression inputs? One destination for A and one for B or two destinations each?
I know that the old blood noise endeavors slider ( Old Blood Noise Endeavors Expression Slider – Musikhaus Thomann ) works with the heat+FX, but I’m trying to figure out if I’ll be able to change 4 parameters with two of those sliders or just two parameters.
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If I remember correctly, @sezare56 played guitar through the AH MK2 
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I’ve been doing that, too, back when I had the heat mkll. I was just wondering if the digital FX added any extra latency. Anyways, I ordered a heat+FX, so I’ll find out soon enough.
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AH MKI to be more precise.
It can be a very good guitar distortion or clean preamp, even better than Analog Drive (much less noise, the filter can be a wah…). So yeah, @Python I don’t thank you, increasing GAS ! 
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A jack then a guitar straight into AH MKI :
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Great review. I have the MK1…
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Nice review! Can’t wait to get my hands on this thing and try it out with my guitar (among other things). Is the Bass Focus Module capable of completely cutting out the signal below the specified frequency with the lo level control? I was thinking to use it as the first module in the chain to remove some low end from the guitar before using the heat module as an overdrive. Alternatively, I think the bits module could also do that with its filter and the mix turned all the way up. Plus it can be used like a fuzz pedal before the heat module. I guess the heat+FX has the potential to be an incredible value for money guitar FX pedal board. 7 digital FX “pedals”, 8 flavours of analog boost/overdrive/distortion/eq, 7 filters, gate, lots of unique modulation and external control options for every parameter, hassle-free re-routing, and more than enough preset slots. Separated out into single FX pedals, this would be much more than 1000€.
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I just ordered one oh boy oh boy oh boy!!
Seems like it might take a while for it to arrive but that’s okay.
My OT will sound glorious with the mains going through the SSL Fusion and the cue outs through the AH+FX.
It will likely be v nice for the Waldorf M as well.
So stoked about this 
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From my recollection, it is capable of DJ style Kill or more. Will check when I‘m back home
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Both work well. First Bass Focus, then Warble’s Base-Width with all warbly-stuff set to zero.
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Hi everyone!
I want to experiment using Analog heat +FX with overbridge. i noticed that the sound from my daw comes in very hot (‘in’ is very often red in the overbridge plugin and nog green). How to remedy this? the faders in my daw are not set that high at all.
Is there a good overbridge tutorial for the analogheat+FX somwehere? or a manual? I checked on the elektron site and the current overbridge manual still only has a section on the heat MKII, and its very short. also the manual from the analogheat+FX does not dive into how to use the overbridge plugin.
What does the Bass Focus actually do? If it just sums the stereo bass frenquencies to mono, it surely wouldn’t fix any phasing issues from a stero-chorused bassline, right?
Considering buying it for dawless end-of-chain mastering duties, but as I love chorused bass I am curious if the AHFX can properly remedy the usual phasing issues in such a scenario…
Changing the order of the fx chain is easy and quick, FYI.
I haven’t noticed any issue with my guitar bass through Chorus then Bass Focus, although I now figure it might have been not so smart 
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Well, I suppose it wouldn’t really matter which order you run chorus and bass focus in. Unless bass focus actually does some fancy math to de-phase the stereo signal and not just simply sum it, a chorused bass would still result in a tremolo-effect on the low end volume even in mono. 
The chorus on DN and A4 has a high pass filter to remedy this, which is awesome. Strange that the AHFX chorus does not have this.
Let us just hope that the chorus in the upcoming Syntakt update has that HPF then. 
I use my AH+FX as a mastering tool for my dawless setup (2 DN 
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I also use a lot of chorused bass, sometimes with lfo on panning (I know, I’m looking for trouble ). The bass focus is always on with a quite low frequency, I didn’t observed any typical phase issues such as wobbling in the low spectrum. But more opinions will be useful, I mostly produce weird ambient electronica, so I’m not dropping wall of huge basses.
I’m also wondering how the bass focus actually technically works ?
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Interesting. Should be easy to look for any wobbling in the lows with a level meter or spectrum analyzer, no?