bkd_guitarist
Inspired
I've loved my FX8 from the moment I got it, but the preset/scene/IA paradigm was a bit kludgy. I'm a heavily scene-dependent player - having become addicted to scenes in the Axe-FX II, I use them far more often than I use IA's or presets. But using the FX8 was a bit challenging with having to switch in and out of sticky scene mode to change presets, etc. Multiple button presses that could land you in trouble with fast song changes, etc.
All that is fixed with FW 3.00. I now have my Scene button set to Scene 1/2 toggle, buttons 5-8 globally set to Scenes 3-6, and buttons 1-4 controlling IA's on a per-preset basis. Bank Up and Down buttons are set to Preset Up/Down. I set up my presets with our set lists (one preset per song), use Preset Up to step through the songs, and switch scenes within each song. With up to 6 scenes per song, I'm in good shape - I've never used more than 5.
With the improvements in MIDI implementation, this thing is now massively more powerful than it was at release time. The new paradigm is really pretty easy to understand as long as you think of the new "FS" page as a separate MIDI controller like the MFC.
It's pretty damned cool to have bought a piece of gear 9 months ago, and over that time the piece of gear has suddenly become about 75% better than it was when I bought it, and I've done nothing but install firmware.
And they wonder why we love Fractal...
All that is fixed with FW 3.00. I now have my Scene button set to Scene 1/2 toggle, buttons 5-8 globally set to Scenes 3-6, and buttons 1-4 controlling IA's on a per-preset basis. Bank Up and Down buttons are set to Preset Up/Down. I set up my presets with our set lists (one preset per song), use Preset Up to step through the songs, and switch scenes within each song. With up to 6 scenes per song, I'm in good shape - I've never used more than 5.
With the improvements in MIDI implementation, this thing is now massively more powerful than it was at release time. The new paradigm is really pretty easy to understand as long as you think of the new "FS" page as a separate MIDI controller like the MFC.
It's pretty damned cool to have bought a piece of gear 9 months ago, and over that time the piece of gear has suddenly become about 75% better than it was when I bought it, and I've done nothing but install firmware.
And they wonder why we love Fractal...