I just did some testing on my FM3+FC6, and it appears that if I’m in a preset (for example, 53) and then navigate to a bank other than the bank in which preset 53 is contained (for example, bank 2 which contains presets 5-11):
- if I use MLM to load layout 1 (presets), it shows bank 2 (presets 5-11), as described by OP. It does this even if, after navigating to another bank, I load other layouts like scenes which still shows the scenes in preset 53 - i.e., but loading the presets layout after that still goes to bank 2 since I had previously navigated there (but never loaded one of the presets in the bank).
- if I set up a ‘home’ footswitch in preset 53 to toggle to layout 1 (presets), when I haven’t navigated to another bank and I push the ‘home’ switch it shows bank 8 (presets 48-53), as described by bleujazz3.
BUT …. if while in preset 53 I navigate to a different bank (but don’t change presets) then navigate back to the layout that has the ‘home’ switch in preset 53 (performance layout for me), and I then push the ‘home’ switch … it loads bank 2.
I even tried to change the ‘home’ switch to a bank select switch as an alternative - but, similar to changing the layout, it seems to go from whichever was the last bank I navigated to - not from the bank of the currently-loaded preset. And if I set the bank switch to - for example - select bank 1, but the 2nd press is set to ‘on’ so it should revert to ‘previous bank’, if I haven’t navigated to another bank before bank 1 on 2nd press it returns to bank 8. But, if I’ve previously navigated to another bank (say bank 2), when I 2nd press the button it goes to bank 2.
So at least on my FM3+FC6 set-up it appears that the ‘home’ button approach only solves the problem IF I’m not first navigating to another bank.
@bleujazz3 - can you confirm whether the ‘home’ button changes behaviour if you first navigate to a different layout (for example, using MLM) and then use the ‘home’ button to load layout 1 (presets)? Perhaps the behaviour is different with FC6 and/or due to the use of layout links or other things, so I don’t want to assume it won’t work, even if it doesn’t seem to on my setup.