Great thought!! Also ,I've seen several products that will show a marker where the value was before it was changed (edited)prior to saving the patch, maybe useful ? possible?
Yeah I actually was hoping Cliff would add something like this at some point. When I first got my AxeFx, I was coming from the Digitech 2101. One thing I loved was it would show an * in front of ANY options you tweaked in a preset. If you put the option back to where it was, the * would disappear. What would be cool for us with the AxeFx....when we edit we get a symbol that tells us we edited that option. When Cliff gives us an update or whatever, the things that changed have a © or some kind of super "C" next to them. Farfetched maybe...but helpful, hell yes!
RDH: While I have you here, a quick question if I may? You posted your opinion at the top of this page about how you feel about updates etc. If you play out often or make a living from your craft, aren't you a little leery about having an update go bad on your AxeFx? I mean granted, I have another rig that I can use as a back-up but I absolutely hate it. I'm in a Van Halen tribute band and NEED my AxeFx due to the fx and amp that go with EVH. I also am a lone guitarist in my band so the additional goodies given to me in the AxeFx are not there with anything else.
All of the above said, I literally crap my pants each time I do an update in fear something will go wrong and I'll have to send my Axe back to Fractal. As much as it pains me to have to re-tweak my sounds during a FW update (I understand that's the nature of the beast, trust me...I get it) having to ship my unit back scares me even more. Do you ever worry about that? Do any of you? Is it so wrong to rely on this box so heavily that we're sometimes afraid to touch it? This is how I've taken some of the replies that others have taken as "complaining." I'm not complaining but I gotta tell you, I may be a little scared at times yet I WANT the new stuff that's available.
Last thing just to further explain my feelings and then I won't say another word. I waited a VERY long time for my MFC. I got the latest one made and the day it came to me was one of the happiest days of my playing life. I was using other pedals to trigger my Axe with fair results...but nothing compared to what the MFC gave me. So I get the MFC, I play with it for four hours. I see there's an update for it that fixes some pretty serious things that I'd not want to happen to me. I update the MFC to the best of my ability following every step.....and it never works again. Brand new...4 hours of use...totally done.
Fractal repaired it and had it back to me in nano-seconds with a Tech support that everyone should take lessons from. They were incredible.....but my point is, if that were to happen to my Axe, I'd be sick man. I HAVE to think of this stuff in my situation as well as the time it would take me to update my patches. I don't always have the time unfortunately.
So I sincerely hope no one took anything I said as complaining. I'm perfectly happy with everything. But if something can be made to simplify our steps like what Cliff recently mentioned....I'm totally cool with that! I'm still scared shitless to have my Axe go down doing a FW update though....make no bones about that! LOL!
