Dave Merrill
Axe-Master
Like other folks, I've been wishing for the ability to easily change channels on multiple blocks at once. One thought that's been floating around is the option to have a block's channel follow another one. However, in practice that seems both hard to implement, and hard to get your head around, since both users and the firmware would have to trace back to find the "original" block that wasn't following something else to figure out what channel was actually in effect. Also, if you removed a block that was in a channel-following chain, it'd have patch that chain up again. The firmware would also have to prevent you from setting up circular dependencies.
Instead, I propose a new concept: Channel Groups.
The idea is that a block can be set to a specific channel, and also optionally assigned to a channel group. Footswitches can set, increment, decrement, or toggle a block's channel, like they do now, OR, they can do those same things to a channel group. Changing the channel of a group would affect all blocks that were assigned to that group.
It's easy to understand, no convoluted chain detective work or circular dependency prevention needed, and makes it easy to change amp and cab together, or drive block and post-amp EQ etc.
Questions:
Thoughts?
Instead, I propose a new concept: Channel Groups.
The idea is that a block can be set to a specific channel, and also optionally assigned to a channel group. Footswitches can set, increment, decrement, or toggle a block's channel, like they do now, OR, they can do those same things to a channel group. Changing the channel of a group would affect all blocks that were assigned to that group.
It's easy to understand, no convoluted chain detective work or circular dependency prevention needed, and makes it easy to change amp and cab together, or drive block and post-amp EQ etc.
Questions:
- Fixed number of channel groups, say 8, or add them manually as needed?
- Should you be able to name them, or is that unnecessary?
Thoughts?
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