Boss GT-1000 upgrade

[matybigfro]

So when do you think Boss are gonna replace the GT-1000 or core it's almost 10 years old (well in two years time).

 

Are we gonna get a GX-1000 in 2028, and if so what's the wish lists for this.

 

With the budget multi/modelling market now pretty flooded and new releases from fender, line 6, neural, fractal and Kemper raising expectations of modellers. What does Boss need to do to stake a place in the flagship market.

 

 

 

 

[LukeFRC]

1 hour ago, matybigfro said:

What does Boss need to do to stake a place in the flagship market.

A 21st century style user interface woild help 

[MrDinsdale]

On 28/01/2026 at 18:50, LukeFRC said:

A 21st century style user interface woild help 

It wasn’t shiny, but it’s a lot less fragile and helps keep power requirements low enough to work off one Cioks output in its defence. It definitely isn’t cutting it though now and even on newer devices with touch screens their UI design is pretty atrocious.

 

Their amp modelling is solid though and eventually they had a really solid offering. The effects are solid although sometimes not the most exciting.

 

The thing that grated on me was the ecosystem, all the companion apps and patch sharing sites etc are so low quality and archaic. I also think the release cadence should be more consistent, a quarterly release with some fixes and bonus features/blocks keeps it exciting.

 

Honestly, not a clue what they’d do for a flagship to compete with the other high end offerings. I don’t feel like they’d go down the capture route personally.

[MichaelDean]

I think they wouldn't need to necessarily reinvent the wheel with captures. If they just included a NAM block, that would probably be enough. That's all the Anagram has done on the capture side.

Hiring a UI designer would be a great help, and yes, the apps are all a bit shocking. The load time from selecting the patch on my GX-100 to showing it on mobile/computer editor shouldn't take 10/20 seconds. I don't know what protocol they're using to transmit the data, but it needs to be modernised.

 

I think that they do get so much right with the functionality though, like the options to assign any parameter to any control and the properly seamless preset swtiching. More assigns would probably be on some people's wishlists. Oh, and the wavetable and input assigns to parameters is great too. 

 

I personally think that their amp sims do leave something to be desired. I've never been totally won over by them and struggle so much to get them to sound like I want to that I've kinda given up with them. Compared to something like the cheap Sonicake Pocket Master that I've got, where the Twin sounds perfectly useable to me with a few tweaks, the one on my GX-100 just doesn't have the same ease of dialling it in.

 

Adding a good synth would be a good selling point too. And maybe getting all of the effects from the Plugout might be a USP for them? Give it all to the users of the new gen pedal.