User preset storage strategies?

Dpoirier

Dpoirier

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Hey everyone,

As I am anxiously waiting for delivery of my III, I am watching lots and lots of videos from several of the gurus out there, and one fundamental question hit me suddenly: where to store user presets? On my trusty old II XL, I was storing my own presets in slots 1 to whatever, essentially overwriting the factory presets. That's because after 10 years with the II, the factory presets have already been well integrated into my knowledge and experience. But with a shiny new III coming, I might want to use the factory presets as reference for quite some time while I learn all about it.

Is there a recommended process or method commonly used out there to store personal presets while retaining access to all factory presets? Or am I imagining a problem that isn't one?

As an add-on to my question, if I start overwriting factory presets at slot #1 and up, what if new factory presets are released by Fractal, how do I get those onto my unit without destructively crushing my own?

Apologies for the newbie question from a II old-timer
 
There's plenty of room for user presets.

Factory presets are stored from like 000 to 382 or something. Then you have room from 383 to 1,023 to store your own.
 
You can use Manage Cabs Presets to "shift" all factory presets...

However, since the latest presets are available to download, it's probably faster to load them from there.

Load into starting location of Bank B then you have Bank A for your personal presets.
 
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unix-guy said:
You can use Manage Cabs to "shift" all factory presets...

However, since the latest presets are available to download, it's probably faster to load them from there.

Load into starting location of Bank B then you have Bank A for your personal presets.
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Is exactly how I used the II.

With the gen3 equipment I just use bank D adding a CC 0 value 3 message for my midi controls.
 
If I'm not mistaken, the OG Axe 3 (what i have) has less storage for both presets and user IRs than later versions. It's still a lot.

Yes my preset slots are full, but i have the full set of factory presets on board, just for convenience of browsing them. I'm more likely to dump some of my own presets that i haven't used in a while than those.

My user IRs aren't completely full, since i left empty slots adjacent to some ir makers' stuff, so i can hopefully keep future stuff of theirs with them. Remains to be seen how how that actually plays out. I probably would buy new IRs from York Audio should they appear, but they haven't for a while. Anyway, I'm mostly using dynacabs these days, so I'm good.
 
I eventually deleted all the factory presets from my unit, except for a few that I use as starting points for different patches.

I also kept a copy of those factory presets on my PC, and if I want one I use Preset Manager to load it in as needed.

Bank A is now exclusively my personal presets. Bank B is where I ‘experiment’ and load in factory or purchased presets.
 
I typically don't use the factory Presets, but I still leave them in Banks A-C and update them when new versions are released. I have my Presets in Bank D.

I use a hold function on switches of my Presets Layout which load a Preset from Bank D so I don't have to Bank up through Banks A-C. The Presets loaded by the hold function of the switches are spaced 16 Presets apart and correspond to the first Preset in a group of Presets for each guitar (Tele, Strat, PRS).

Once I hold the appropriate switch my FC-6 shows the first four Presets for the guitar I am playing and I can Bank up for the rest (for most guitars I have only 8 or fewer Presets). This enables me to have Presets dedicated to each guitar and access them with a hold followed by one or two taps and still have all the factory Presets in their original Banks.
 
I have a folder in my laptop with presets that I just use in specific cases, for example If I have to cover a bunch of rock songs like Metallica, Van Hallen, etc then I load these presets
 
I keep my personal presets in slots 390+ leaving me over 600 slots for other presets. I figure those oughta be enough for my purposes. Jeez, they better be or I'm going to have a serious talk with myself.

I find the factory presets useful for learning and for sack and pillage runs on various things they do.
 
BROCKSTAR said:
Factory presets are stored from like 000 to 382 or something. Then you have room from 383 to 1,023 to store your own.
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It's probably safer to leave banks A-C available for the factory presets. If Fractal wants to add some additional presets then they're free to do so without impacting anything we've stored, so banks D-H (slots 384 on up) are our playground.
 
You can move any preset to any location. There's no risk or issue with that whatsoever. It is purely user preference.

When importing the factory presets, use the individual BANK A, BANK B, and BANK C files instead of the larger ALL BANKS file and Fractal Bot will prompt you for your desired destination bank for each.

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