Rock Chalk
Fractal Fanatic
Yep, these are looking better and better with the per preset layouts! Would be nice to know the dimensions and would REALLY be cool to see a pic of the strips reversed with the black background and white text.
Per preset layouts! Love it. Hopefully the layouts can be triggered on scene change. Would love to have the top row of IA buttons change based on what scene is active, so a set of IA for clean, different set for lead, etc
I would spend more time just trying to remember what ever button did and where it was at.It’s totally user- and workflow dependent.
I prefer having everything immediately available at my feet, if possible. That’s why I have a 22-button controller, currently.
Who knows, I may end up using that controller AND and an FC simultaneously. )
Thanks for the reply Ian. As a preset maker, I have some more specific questions about how this is implemented.
Does this mean that the switch functions cannot be saved with the preset, like they can with the AX8? Each one of my AX8 presets has its own switch assignments. With maybe a few exceptions, each one is unique to that preset and its needs. For example, in one preset I may want 4 scenes and 2 effect on/off switches, in another preset I may want 2 scenes, one control switch, and 3 affect on/off switches.
Would these (per preset) switch layouts be saved with the preset and passed on to the buyer? Or will the buyer have to program the recommended switch layout as one of their 12 custom layouts? And would that 'tie my hands' as to how many different layouts that I can use across hundreds of presets? Or is one of the 12 global options a 'per preset' option?
Can I assume that the four LEDs around each footswitch can indicate what channel you're on for an effect? For example, you have Drive 1 assigned to a switch and pressing the switch turns the block on/off and pressing and holding would cycle through the four channels with each of the quadrants representing a channel? If so, very cool!
Why is it so hard to get the dimensions of the FC6 and FC12? Is it a secret? I have heard quite a few people ask but have yet to see a response. Maybe someone did and I missed it.
I hope that it's just a bit wider.I’m guessing the FC12 is the same width as the MFC.
I hope that it's just a bit wider.
Or, to be more precise:
I found that the horizontal distance between the footswitches on the MFC wasn't quite far enough; I was constantly at risk of accidentally brushing an adjacent switch with the edge of my foot, and winding up with an unintended Effect, or unintended Scene Change, or (worst of all) an unintended Program Change!
So, I was hoping that there'd be an extra quarter-inch distance, center-on-center, between the switches on the FC-12.
That should help alleviate the problem.
From the pics Cooper Carter posted it doesn't seem to be the case, and it's probably a feature that can't be added with a firmware update.that would be a great assumption. I would have never thought of that. Hope its the case!
Who are you? Bigfoot? ;-)
Externals for preset and bank changes seem very attractive. You don't need them to sync state. They just need to be simple momentary switches to do their thing. If the unit allows for short/long press detection on the external switches too you can even stack tap tempo and tuning on them. We shall see, eh? Mmmm....
That's not a hope, it's already confirmed that the labels are customizable.From the pics Cooper Carter posted it doesn't seem to be the case, and it's probably a feature that can't be added with a firmware update.
What could be added in the firmware, though, is the ability to custom name channels or blocks and show them on the small screens (hopefully scene names too)
Bigfoot? There are several of us out there.
I find that a lot of controllers have very close-spaced buttons, which isn't a problem at home. But as lead vocal and lead guitar, sometimes I find needing to use the foot controller while playing and singing challenging... especially due to the unpredictability of some stage setups at some of the venues we play, the pedal board might not be exactly where I normally have it, and it can be challenging to see over my gut -erm- guitar.
Bigfoot? There are several of us out there.
I find that a lot of controllers have very close-spaced buttons, which isn't a problem at home. But as lead vocal and lead guitar, sometimes I find needing to use the foot controller while playing and singing challenging... especially due to the unpredictability of some stage setups at some of the venues we play, the pedal board might not be exactly where I normally have it, and it can be challenging to see over my gut -erm- guitar.
...and Rex replied,So are the scribble windows white
Or are they colored
I am kind of confused
Player's choice.
He's responding to some people who think it's four individual LEDs around one footswitch. I don't think it is, it's probably one LED per footswitch, a "ring" of light.Why do you assume the individual LEDs can not be controlled? From a couple of pictures... You're making a big assumption of how this was implemented.