Hi Cliff,
After reconsidering, and reviewing responses from other users, I'm not convinced the new approach with External Controller startup values is best for all users. It's great to have the choice to either start with everything on, or everything off (old behaviour) of course, but clearly I and other users have been frustrated in the past by not being able to start with volume on, and since turning everything on, I and other users have been frustrated by having volume, but various other effects turned on and maxxed out.
Most competing units don't have your MIDI CC assignment flexibility, but power-up with volume on, panning centered, and everything else off. This seems logical.
Would you please reconsider my hybrid solution? (even less resource use than your current changes) - this has met with some degree of acceptance in earlier posts. Namely:
Perhaps a flexible compromise might be to:
> have External Controllers 1 to 6 initialise to zero - this should cater for most patches for most users with the old behaviour
> have External Controller 7 initialise to 64 - this will cater for users needing a middle value such as panning, to start with sound in both channels (instead of all left or all right)
> have External Controller 8 initialise to 127 (max) - this will allow volume pedal users to power up the AxeFX with volume insted of dead patches
Whatever happens, even if nothing, please accept my thanks for you fantastic patience and efforts to meet conflicting needs from different users, balanced with the best utilisation of AxeFX resources. This isn't my ultimate solution: I'm honestly trying to propose a solution here that meets the needs of most users.
sincerely,
GM Arts
