Soft Reset Utility (May 2025)

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NEW “SOFT RESET” UTILITY
Axe-Fx firmware 28.05, FM9 firmware 9.02, and FM3 firmware 10.0 introduce a new Soft Reset utility in the Amp block. This can be used to reset an amp model while preserving basic controls. It is found in the Amp’s Edit menu, on the Type page (the left-most page), on Push-knob E.

This utility resets the current channel, setting deep parameters to their accurate defaults, while preserving your settings for basic controls for Gain, Tone, GEQ, and more. This ensures accurate sound when amp modeling is updated, or when models are remastered after changes, and is also a useful troubleshooting tool.

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In the editor, this option can be executed in the Amp Block's Channel context menu.

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You can also use Tools > Manage Presets to perform a soft reset on all channels in selected presets at once. (If your firmware version doesn't support Soft Reset, this option preserves only the "Authentic" controls on the "Tone" page of the amp, as shown on the hardware.

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Just a note based on my testing in FM9 private beta: Input Trim is currently reset to default when using this option.

I'm hoping we could keep this one preserved as it isn't part of the modeling itself.

Pretty please?

Edit:

Confirmed that release version is not resetting Input Trim.
 
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Just a few questions:

Does a Soft Reset also affect deep parameters that end users can’t access?

Also, If I duplicate a channel (e.g., copy Channel A to Channel B) and then perform a Soft Reset on Channel B, can I compare the two channels to essentially evaluate differences between the previous and new firmware in regards to the parameters that aren’t accessible to the end user (obviously not the core modeling algos)?
 
ruso said:
Does a Soft Reset also affect deep parameters that end users can’t access?
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It might, rabbit... it might.
ruso said:
If I duplicate a channel (e.g., copy Channel A to Channel B) and then perform a Soft Reset on Channel B, can I compare the two channels to essentially evaluate differences between the previous and new firmware
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No: they'll both be on the same firmware, but with different settings.
 
Admin M@ said:
It might, rabbit... it might.

No: they'll both be on the same firmware, but with different settings.
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I think what they're trying to do is check out the difference the updated parameters makes. Of course you can't have different presets running different firmware versions, but you should be able to reset the amp blocks in one preset and not in a copy of it, then compare the two.

Not sure how to efficiently compare the parameters in two presets though. Can Fractool do that? You could switch back and forth manually and eyeball every setting, but that's a pretty significant PITA.

This is one reason there would be value in a json or other self-describing text-based export, since you could just diff the files with your compare utility of choice.
 
Sorry to ask...

But in case of multiple presets using the same amps (deluxe and 59slp for me)that i have tweaked with a lot of advanced parameters, do i have to reset every block and then reload the amp block library preset in every presets ?

thanks
 
Joshua_L said:
Sorry to ask...

But in case of multiple presets using the same amps (deluxe and 59slp for me)that i have tweaked with a lot of advanced parameters, do i have to reset every block and then reload the amp block library preset in every presets ?

thanks
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If you use the Preset Manager, you can select multiple presets and apply soft-reset to them. No need to do it individually (unless you want to),
 
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