CenturyBreak
Inspired
Greetings all.
My FC-12 arrived yesterday, and what a change from my prior RJM Mastermind LT... but mostly in terms of SIZE!. The LT is outstanding, and only the lack of scribble strips made me even consider the FC... setting up three pages for presets, scenes and IAs on the LT made it feel like it had been born for an Axe-FX.
Back to the FC. When I first started researching it, I thought "Great! Toggling between Layouts 1, 2 and 3 would do the trick!" Then I discovered the magic of Perform 1 & 2... even better!
After hooking it up yesterday, I played with Layouts 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8 and realized that with the default bank size of 10, Perform 1 wouldn't work as expected. In the manual, switches 6 and 12 are labelled as "Preset -4" and "Preset +4", ignoring bank size, but in reality, they're "Bank -1" and "Bank +1", so they only access the first 4 presets of each bank. That's disappointing, but press on regardless... I know it's discussed in this thread:
https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/wish-bank-size-per-layout.148029/
Minor inconvenience, I thought, as I'd temporarily change the bank size to 4 and see if I could live on Perform 1 & 2 after tweaking the IAs on perform 2.
Needless to say, reducing the bank size to 4 makes Layout 1 look a bit odd:
As an experiment, I tried reducing it to 2:
No problem, I thought again... I'll just change it back. Oops. Increasing the bank size had no effect! Bank up and down did jump by the right number of presets, but nothing changed on the mini-displays... they were stuck on the first 2 presets in each bank!
The only thing that fixed it was resetting to the default settings for the FC in the FC section under Setup on the Axe lll... meaning any edits are lost.
Now... am I missing something obvious, or is this a bug? The FC has firmware 1.06 and the Axe lll is 5.08
Thanks in advance!
My FC-12 arrived yesterday, and what a change from my prior RJM Mastermind LT... but mostly in terms of SIZE!. The LT is outstanding, and only the lack of scribble strips made me even consider the FC... setting up three pages for presets, scenes and IAs on the LT made it feel like it had been born for an Axe-FX.
Back to the FC. When I first started researching it, I thought "Great! Toggling between Layouts 1, 2 and 3 would do the trick!" Then I discovered the magic of Perform 1 & 2... even better!
After hooking it up yesterday, I played with Layouts 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8 and realized that with the default bank size of 10, Perform 1 wouldn't work as expected. In the manual, switches 6 and 12 are labelled as "Preset -4" and "Preset +4", ignoring bank size, but in reality, they're "Bank -1" and "Bank +1", so they only access the first 4 presets of each bank. That's disappointing, but press on regardless... I know it's discussed in this thread:
https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/wish-bank-size-per-layout.148029/
Minor inconvenience, I thought, as I'd temporarily change the bank size to 4 and see if I could live on Perform 1 & 2 after tweaking the IAs on perform 2.
Needless to say, reducing the bank size to 4 makes Layout 1 look a bit odd:
As an experiment, I tried reducing it to 2:
No problem, I thought again... I'll just change it back. Oops. Increasing the bank size had no effect! Bank up and down did jump by the right number of presets, but nothing changed on the mini-displays... they were stuck on the first 2 presets in each bank!
The only thing that fixed it was resetting to the default settings for the FC in the FC section under Setup on the Axe lll... meaning any edits are lost.
Now... am I missing something obvious, or is this a bug? The FC has firmware 1.06 and the Axe lll is 5.08
Thanks in advance!