Seven2Eleven
Inspired
Hey everyone,
I play in a wedding band where we play lots of songs in medleys where there's no downtime between any song.
I'm coming from a hybrid rig where I had lots of analog pedals working with an HX stomp that provided my DI amp tones. The whole thing was controlled with a Boss ES-8 switcher. I pretty much always stayed on one clean amp preset with the HX stomp and just used real drive pedals for different levels of gain. It was a relatively complicated rig but it worked really well for me. I had seamless transitions between different patches with the ES-8 but the ES-8 also has a "manual mode" where you can turn on and off each loop like a traditional pedal board. That's very important to me as I like to mix things up night to night and I want the freedom to improvise quickly.
So my hope with my new FM9 is to replicate the workflow I had with the ES-8 as much as possible. I've been messing around with the FC editor and I just wanted to get some feedback and maybe learn if there are better ways to do what I want.
So I want to try to stay in one preset on the FM9 and get as much as I can out of it. I made a main preset based around a clean amp and programed 8 scenes that were almost exactly clones of my 8 main patches on the ES-8.
For the foot switches, the first change I made was to the scenes layout. I reprogrammed foot switch 9 to go directly to the effects layout instead of back to the presets. This again mirrors the "memory/manual" switch on the ES-8 where I have instant access to all my loops.
I then reprogrammed the effects layout to have switches 1-7 be instant access switches for my most commonly used effects. Switch 9 goes back to the scenes layout and switch 8 goes to the more FX layout where I just have a second page of effects.
For the effects layouts, I also gave each effect a hold function to scroll through channels. However, holding to change effects can be little cumbersome, especially if I want to go from A to D. So I also programmed the hold function for the "more fx" switch to do the "reveal hold" utility function in "sticky" mode. So I can hold down that switch then all the FX switches become channel toggle switches and then I can scroll though channels just by tapping instead of holding. It's almost like an alternative channels layout.
Let me know what you think and if there's anyway to make these layouts better!
I play in a wedding band where we play lots of songs in medleys where there's no downtime between any song.
I'm coming from a hybrid rig where I had lots of analog pedals working with an HX stomp that provided my DI amp tones. The whole thing was controlled with a Boss ES-8 switcher. I pretty much always stayed on one clean amp preset with the HX stomp and just used real drive pedals for different levels of gain. It was a relatively complicated rig but it worked really well for me. I had seamless transitions between different patches with the ES-8 but the ES-8 also has a "manual mode" where you can turn on and off each loop like a traditional pedal board. That's very important to me as I like to mix things up night to night and I want the freedom to improvise quickly.
So my hope with my new FM9 is to replicate the workflow I had with the ES-8 as much as possible. I've been messing around with the FC editor and I just wanted to get some feedback and maybe learn if there are better ways to do what I want.
So I want to try to stay in one preset on the FM9 and get as much as I can out of it. I made a main preset based around a clean amp and programed 8 scenes that were almost exactly clones of my 8 main patches on the ES-8.
For the foot switches, the first change I made was to the scenes layout. I reprogrammed foot switch 9 to go directly to the effects layout instead of back to the presets. This again mirrors the "memory/manual" switch on the ES-8 where I have instant access to all my loops.
I then reprogrammed the effects layout to have switches 1-7 be instant access switches for my most commonly used effects. Switch 9 goes back to the scenes layout and switch 8 goes to the more FX layout where I just have a second page of effects.
For the effects layouts, I also gave each effect a hold function to scroll through channels. However, holding to change effects can be little cumbersome, especially if I want to go from A to D. So I also programmed the hold function for the "more fx" switch to do the "reveal hold" utility function in "sticky" mode. So I can hold down that switch then all the FX switches become channel toggle switches and then I can scroll though channels just by tapping instead of holding. It's almost like an alternative channels layout.
Let me know what you think and if there's anyway to make these layouts better!