You're probably right, I'm bad at estimating fractions of a second.It is much lower than that. Not sure about presets but the scene switching is in the 10s of miliseconds. Not anywhere near 500ms.
The 3 actually is faster but not 100% seamless if you are switchingIs this an issue serious enough to be worth going III instead of FM3 for?
If you want a real answer based on the reality of your preset you'll need to append it to your OP so we can all look at it and determine the problem. Without that you're getting guesses and shooting in the dark because we have absolutely no idea how it's set up.Hello. I am getting some pretty disturbing lag when switching scenes. No hold function assigned. Also, it happens when the FM3 edit is paused or if the USB is disconnected. Are there specific blocks causing this delay? It is pretty bad.
I was just experimenting with my FX3 and FM3 to see how fast they switch the same scenes, and both are extremely fast, well outside my ability to tell a difference.It is much lower than that. Not sure about presets but the scene switching is in the 10s of miliseconds. Not anywhere near 500ms.
As said before, yes, there can be a very short drop then rise in volume as algorithms settle during a scene or channel change, otherwise there'd be a burst of noise which is very unpleasant.I just got an FM3 last week and switching Scenes or even amps (by using Channels A-D) has quite a gap in audio IMO. Has this firmware update from FXIII been ported over to the FM3 yet? Maybe I am doing something wrong in my setup? To be fair I spent most of time with the factory presets switching using Scenes and it seems quite obvious to me.
Long story short, I don't know what the actual measurements are, but changing scenes within a preset (where you have 4 different amps in channels A, B, C, D) has an audible gap. Yes if your scene change is to keep the same amp model and just turning effects on/off then there's nothing but even going up in gain from clean to mid to high to lead in a preset has audio cutout.
I was looking into this and found a post from Cliff last fall where he said they hadn't ported out some of the AX FXIII software that reduces this even further. I am not sure if that has made it into 3.01 yet or not.
The point was simply the argument that the audience are basically sheep doesn't fly anymore.So if the guitar solo scene is 100 milliseconds late you can't enjoy the show?
That's just silly! You take yourself way too seriously and probably haven't toured or even played out a lot.
If you can't work around even the slightest problem then live performance may not be for you LOL!
Shit happens on a regular basis and often the audience only knows something's wrong because an unprofessional musician can't keep his composure.
That's an audio gap, not a lag...I love Fractal but my FM-3 had the lag, and it happened fairly often. As the singer I rely heavily on scenes. Example would be going from a pretty dry Friedman BE100 rhythm sound for a verse, to a Matchless Chieftain with delay, reverb for the chorus. The lag was about 1/2 second but it drove me nuts. I sold the FM-3 to go back to tubes, but will likely be back to the III at some point
The Hold function "delay" doesn't require removing the Hold function.A few tips to remove lags/drop-outs/whatsoever
- remove hold functions! it definitely increases the response time
- change multiple blocks (bypass states) instead of channels
- get rid of multiple blocks and channels: use scene controllers instead
I removed all hold functions and channel switches, I stay with one amp and change everything via scene controllers.
No lag, no dropouts - instant changes and perfect spillover.
I even change scene levels via scene controllers and everything run 100% smooth.