Brian Wahl
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It's 1:00am here on the East Coast. I polished off this pint of Ben & Jerry's (Pistachio) while programming the FM9. This thing is legit. I think I've come up with some interesting ways to map all the effects and scenes to the 9 buttons.
Here's what I have going in a single preset (it's a lot...)
- Compressor block (4 different comps)
- Tremolo block (4 different trems, including ramping trem)
- 2 Drive blocks (8 different drives, can run 2 at the same time)
- Volume block
- 2 amp blocks (stereo amps with the ability to switch to 4 different channels in each block)
- Cab block (4 different stereo cab options)
- EQ block
- Chorus block (4 different choruses, including vibrato)
- 2 Delay blocks (8 different delays, can run 2 at the same time)
- 2 Reverb blocks ((8 different verbs - 4 'normal' and 4 cloud types, can run 2 at the same time)
- Plex Delay - More ambient delay options
This setup maxes out the DSP, but it is significantly more than what FM3 can do. Axe-FX III does more.
A few more notes:
- You can copy the block library files from Axe-FX III into the folders for FM9 and they all show up. I made this bold because I was so freaking excited that this worked, ha.
- Whatever they did to the reverbs and how the DSP handles them allows you to run basically all the reverbs In both blocks at the ultra-high setting. It's a very nice tweak that they did (this seems to be handle differently In Axe-FX III - upping the quality on Axe takes more of a DSP hit).
- All In all - 9 buttons Is hardly enough to scratch the surface trying to control everything you can do in a single preset. But I'm really liking how I've got it laid out so far, and the way Fractal lets us do secondary functions and jump between layouts is really flexible.
- Pitch block (shimmer and POG effects)
- 3rd Delay block (in axe we can run 3 different delays at the same time rather than 2)
If you really wanted pitch with a layout like this, you could remove one of the drive blocks and either the chorus or trem block and add it in. You'd still be able to get a bunch of overdrive options by using all 4 channels of the drive block with the amp gain switch.
And not having 3 delay blocks isn't a big deal.