shasha
Fractal Fanatic
I know that if you are experienced with ProTools and hundreds of plug ins that shows two things; first that you are definitely smart enough to grasp this and secondly that you invested a lot of time learning how to use all of that stuff. Perhaps you've been doing it so long that you've forgotten or underestimated the time you invested learning all of that stuff.
Like others have said it sounds like you are trying to do too much too soon based on your time restrictions. Instead of worrying about modifiers and controllers dial in a simple patch that is based on your primary rig. Once you get that done you will at least have one solid patch to go to when you either want or need to play.
And I'm not buying into the concept of this being too complicated for you at all. I'm no rocket scientist and the thing is extremely simple to navigate and create patches on once you grasp the workflow and layout. It doesn't take a genius to master this thing contrary to popular belief. When people talk about how simple a pedal board is compared to the AxeFXII I roll my eyes because if you take any simple pedal board and put the same exact effects in a patch it takes a matter of about 5 minutes to build. When you dial it in you should look at it exactly how you would if you had that gear in front of you meaning stay out of the advanced parameter pages. The biggest pitfall for new adopters (and even long time users) is the compulsion to turn every single parameter on every page because if its there then it has to be adjusted. If your pedal has 5 knobs on it then try to use just the 5 parameters and dial it in from there and when you get it as good as you can then move on to the next pedal or effect block or whatever. Build the basic preset and get it working and play it then you can tweak on it over the next few weeks or whatever to learn or improve it.
You know as well as anyone that you aren't going to be an expert on every parameter of every block over night. I'll just add that there is no need to either. Get one patch working and play it and enjoy it, there is no rush to build a thousand crazy patches in one sitting. Now if you can't get it to feel right or sound right then I'd suggest selling it, but it sounds more like frustration to me. I have absolute faith that you will get it because if I can do it then you surely can.
Like others have said it sounds like you are trying to do too much too soon based on your time restrictions. Instead of worrying about modifiers and controllers dial in a simple patch that is based on your primary rig. Once you get that done you will at least have one solid patch to go to when you either want or need to play.
And I'm not buying into the concept of this being too complicated for you at all. I'm no rocket scientist and the thing is extremely simple to navigate and create patches on once you grasp the workflow and layout. It doesn't take a genius to master this thing contrary to popular belief. When people talk about how simple a pedal board is compared to the AxeFXII I roll my eyes because if you take any simple pedal board and put the same exact effects in a patch it takes a matter of about 5 minutes to build. When you dial it in you should look at it exactly how you would if you had that gear in front of you meaning stay out of the advanced parameter pages. The biggest pitfall for new adopters (and even long time users) is the compulsion to turn every single parameter on every page because if its there then it has to be adjusted. If your pedal has 5 knobs on it then try to use just the 5 parameters and dial it in from there and when you get it as good as you can then move on to the next pedal or effect block or whatever. Build the basic preset and get it working and play it then you can tweak on it over the next few weeks or whatever to learn or improve it.
You know as well as anyone that you aren't going to be an expert on every parameter of every block over night. I'll just add that there is no need to either. Get one patch working and play it and enjoy it, there is no rush to build a thousand crazy patches in one sitting. Now if you can't get it to feel right or sound right then I'd suggest selling it, but it sounds more like frustration to me. I have absolute faith that you will get it because if I can do it then you surely can.