In short, yes. The Axon works "great, not perfect" for 4, 5 or 6 string Bass Guitar. The longer answer is a bit more complicated…
Bass guitars have traditionally out of reach for older guitar converters using a frequency dependent tracking method. It is now possible, using the Axon’s neural net technology, to track a bass in an exceedingly playable, yet slightly not perfect manner.
In discussions with our esteemed customer base, the assumption is often made that …"oh, it’s tougher because of the low frequency." This would be true in a frequency dependent converter, but it the Axon, the difficulty presents itself differently.
Bass strings have a greater mass, so they vibrate more slowly, just like we want them to. Unfortunately, this presents a problem for the Axon, as the greater momentum of the greater mass slows the propagation on the pluck transient and that slows up the Axon. By just a little bit. This pluck transient provides the information for the neural net to act on, so the information arrives at the Axon later, and creates a slight delay. This, coupled the greater harmonic complexity of the bass signal (more work for the processor) make the Axon slightly less fast for the Bass.
We have a great many happy bass players out there, among them Matt Garrison, (AX-100 and a Korg Trinity Rack), who’s been known to play with the likes of John McLaughlin and Joni Mitchell, occasionally….