Is there any way of applying a global send and return loop into ALL the presets at a set point say post Cab/IR block for my strymon cloudburstetc) or pre amp block for vintage fuzz pedals) .. without the need to do it within each preset?
It seems such an obvious thing to want to do .. its really irritating having to do it for each preset .. especially for live use.. maybe an OS update could include an option at start up like it does for the OMGs?
Unless every preset you make is identical there’s no way that the hardware would know where to
automagically insert the external effects-loop’s send and return blocks. And if it did it wrong, since effect types can have desirable and undesirable results depending on their location in the chain, what would you be able to do about it?
In your example of using a Cloudburst, or a fuzz pedal, how is the modeler supposed to know what those devices are going to do to the sound? Analyze their effect and then adjust the spot where the loop originates ahead of the Amp block for the fuzz, and switch it to after the cab or immediately ahead of the Out block for the Cloudburst?
What if both are running at the same time? Should the modeler add new patch cables and plug them in to newly added effect send and return blocks in the pre or post sections of the layout without affecting the sound?
It seems like it is obvious until it isn’t.
The effect loop send and return blocks, and the output and input jacks, are not specific to effects, they are electrically equivalent to the guitar’s signal strength, allowing them to be used to send signals to amplifiers, mixers, and anything else we choose, or receive signals from effects or a mixer or the return of an amp. Flexibility is Fractal’s goal, and the modeler can’t anticipate your goals, only you can. Read through section 4 in the manual and look at all the different ways you can configure the modeler and situations you can use it in, and you’ll quickly see that there is no common use-case.
