scarbodave
Inspired
Honestly, I don't feel like completely adjusting all my presets for the umpteenth time. I don't want to completely adapt all my presets for the umpteenth time just to make them sound maybe 1-2% more authentic. If at all. At some point, it has to be good and you should simply keep a functioning system and familiar sound behavior in the ear. I think we are now operating in a very subjective area. And tastes are notoriously different. It's somehow an inner compulsion to simply have to carry out a major update because everyone seems to be doing it or you just don't want to miss anything. I think at some point you get into the area of "making things worse". Personally, I'm happy with version 24.04 and simply appreciate continuity in my presets. But that's just my personal opinion.
This seems like a very reasonable decision to me. Back before the days of subscription software many folks did not upgrade every time there was a new version. Many waited until there were enough new features to compel them to upgrade....yes I'm looking at you Photoshop. That was often because there was a financial cost to upgrade, but as many say, time is money.
I will likely upgrade (once it is no longer Beta) because I am curious about the improvements and how significant they are. Also, I only have a few amp models that I use so the time to perform resets and re-tweaking is manageable (and enjoyable) for me.
This also seems to me to be a very good case for using Global Blocks. If you have many presets which are using a handful of amp models (and who knows, next release it may affect reverbs, delays etc.) then having built your presets using Global Blocks should save time and effort for upgrades. I think the process would be:
- reset the block in one instance of the global block (one preset) and make whatever tweaks are required (and save the preset)
- revisit all presets using that global block and perform a "load from global block"
Can anyone confirm that step #2 above is necessary and correct? It seems to me that the settings are reloaded from Global Blocks everytime the preset is selected so step #2 should be unnecessary - correct?
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