It doesn’t work that way, though.
Let’s say that new firmware changes the way the cathode follower works (that never happens, right?
). Your deeper parameters were set for the way the old cathode follower worked, whether you tweaked them yourself or you were just using the old defaults. But with the new cathode follower, you’re not “keeping your original sound as close as possible” when you copy all your old parameters, because those parameters are no longer optimized for the new cathode follower. Instead, you’re just munging up your sound in random ways.