When performing, nothing is worse for me and the audience than the the mid-song dropout when I accidentally hit the preset up/down switches. Could there be a system option to disable these switches when in Scene or Stomp mode?
I live in fear of this. So much so, that for our gig on Saturday, I have the same preset copied 8 times (full bank) and I am starting in the middle of the bank. That way, if I accidentally press up or down, it will briefly drop out but I can quickly recover. To enable this, I had to abandon my normal approach of having 1 preset per song and simplify down to a single preset to cover a 16-song setlist.
I have never accidentally pressed the up/down buttons in a live gig, but it has happened during band practice many times. If I’m not paying attention, I’m unsure whether to go up or down to get back to where I was. To make things worse, the up/down switches move in the opposite direction of what many of us (myself included) would expect.
My vote would be to have three selections for this system setting: (1) Normal; (2) Reversed; (3) Disabled.
Yeeeees!
100% this! Let’s please have three selections for this system setting: (1) Normal; (2) Reversed; (3) Disabled.
I have duplicate patches, too (though not a whole bank, that is dedicated!). The worst part for me is the dropout, because it also cuts out my vocal – very noticeable.
I’m down with your proposed 3 selections! @carl , please upvote this at the top to see if we can get some traction. Thanks!
So, we do already have a couple of requests which effectively cover what you’re asking.
Locking a preset:
Here’s the main request for reversing the up/down switch order, with a relatively high number of votes:
Thanks for digging these up, I searched and found the thread reversing switch order but not the lock preset one. Feel free to lock / combine this topic with the others if you think it’s covered.
While we wait to (hopefully) see this in a future FW update, does anyone have a workaround?
I don’t actually want to disable bank up/down switches, but would love to avoid any more accidental misfires.
So maybe there’s a product I could mount that surrounds the outside of a switch? One where I could reach down and press the button, but prevent my big old shoe from pressing it in. I have a 3D printer, but if there is a pre-existing product I’d love to give it a try.
I’d love it they copied Fractal’s “per preset” switching feature. The FM9 has 9 physical swithes, but you can assign long press and short press actions, so it’s really 18 switches. And they can be used for just about anything, scenes, presets, block bypass states, block channels.
I am thinking of doing the same as i really only use one preset. You could just get a wood block and drill out a hole for the switch.
I have a bag of hard foam- rubber grommets that fit perfectly for this but I can’t figure out where they came from!
I’ll keep trying to track them down