Axe-FX (A Love Story?) Rd.1

[SwirlyMaple]

I liked it a ton, but I used the GT-1000 version of the Tone Studio - not the WAZA Air. Had zero problems getting it to do anything I wanted it to do.

Ah, yeah. It’s specifically the WAZA Air one that I have used, and the reason it’s so bad (in my opinion!) is that it retains UI from their other products that makes no sense for the Airs. Specifically, the different colored channels the amps/effects have — those are there in the WAZA Air app, but you can’t change channels with the WAZA Airs. So instead you end up with a bunch of different colored things you accidentally dialed in which aren’t even active in your patch.

I have other gripes with it too, like the way it has volume knobs that map from one effect to another depending on if you’re above or below 50%, and the obtuse way those knobs map to the functions of the effect they’re controlling (some control mix level, some control several levels, without any way to know…)

It’s so kludgy that it’s hard to explain all the issues without actually using it

 

[laxu]

I think it’s time to put that best in class editor in a floor modeler and take no prisoners!

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Sorry for the mad pbrush skills but Bing wouldn’t cooperate.

 

[Mongillo19]

@Whizzinby btw are you using the Quick Build functionality on FM Edit?

 

[Rock Chalk]

I think it’s time to put that best in class editor in a floor modeler and take no prisoners!

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Sorry for the mad pbrush skills but Bing wouldn’t cooperate.

I don't know ....are those salt encrusted margarita knobs? Or is it just the light?

 

[Whizzinby]

@Whizzinby btw are you using the Quick Build functionality on FM Edit?

 

[Stone]

I Built this patch in under 35 minutes got so very very close to the actual isolated guitar

Matched very very close to this --->

 

[Mongillo19]

if you haven't truly give it a go. Click Quick Build at the top of FM Edit, the bottom screen will display all the blocks and you can proceed to drag and drop them to the grid. Click Quick Build again to exit

 

[fretworn]

if you haven't truly give it a go. Click Quick Build at the top of FM Edit, the bottom screen will display all the blocks and you can proceed to drag and drop them to the grid. Click Quick Build again to exit

 

[la szum]

You guys talk more about UIs than a gaggle of women discussing urinary tract infections.

 

[fretworn]

 

[paisleywookiee]

You guys talk more about UIs than a gaggle of women discussing urinary tract infections.

That's........a lot? I guess?

 

[Mongillo19]

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What if Whizz really was SLJ

Imagine

 

[Los-D]

I don't know ....are those salt encrusted margarita knobs? Or is it just the light?

You mOcK my PaINt brUsh skillz?!


Margarita knobs only on special championship edition

 

[SwirlyMaple]

Help me, Fractal gurus: is there a way to reset a parameter back to default on the hardware UI? For example, with the Helix, if you've changed a value away from its default you can just press the knob in and it resets the value. In FM9-Edit, a double-click resets it too, but I haven't figured out a way to do it on the harware.

 

[Mongillo19]

Help me, Fractal gurus: is there a way to reset a parameter back to default on the hardware UI? For example, with the Helix, if you've changed a value away from its default you can just press the knob in and it resets the value. In FM9-Edit, a double-click resets it too, but I haven't figured out a way to do it on the harware.

If you are in the edit page of the block I believe there should be a reset option at the bottom

 

[SwirlyMaple]

If you are in the edit page of the block I believe there should be a reset option at the bottom

Thanks, yeah, that resets the whole block (for a given channel), but I was hoping for a way to reset knobs individually.

 

[unix-guy]

Help me, Fractal gurus: is there a way to reset a parameter back to default on the hardware UI? For example, with the Helix, if you've changed a value away from its default you can just press the knob in and it resets the value. In FM9-Edit, a double-click resets it too, but I haven't figured out a way to do it on the harware.

I don't believe there's an option for the on the hardware...

Also, be aware that double-clicking a parameter in the editor will "reset" it but often the reset value differs from what it would be if you reset the block on hardware.

 

[SwirlyMaple]

Also, be aware that double-clicking a parameter in the editor will "reset" it but often the reset value differs from what it would be if you reset the block on hardware.

Ah, good to know! Thanks!

 

[mbenigni]

Welcome to the world of inconsistency in Fractal operation.

Here's a crash course:

• Edit button almost never does the thing it says on the label.
  • The layout grid is the only exception where Edit = Edit block.
  • Anywhere else it's a shortcut for "Go edit the last block you had open."
  • When inside a block, it's "Go to next block".
  • Double clicking Edit when inside a block means "Go to previous block."
• Enter button opens things.
  • The exception is the layout grid, where Enter = connect/disconnect blocks or create a shunt on an empty grid slot.
• Nav buttons mostly move the cursor around or switch rows of controls.
  • In list views (e.g Amp block Advanced page) the Left/Right buttons jump to next/previous 5 params, mapping them to the A-E knobs.
  • In the Amp block Output EQ page, Up/Down changes the graphic EQ type. Of course the Graphic EQ block does not work like this.
• Big knob adjusts the currently selected parameter.
  • In layout grid view it changes the block in the currently selected slot.
  • In preset/model/cab list it scrolls through the items.
  • On Axe-Fx 3 this knob has a button on it you can assign to go to Layout grid. Why this does not exist on FM3/FM9? No idea. I've also requested that this could be mapped to more functions but of course Fractal hasn't implemented it.
• A-E knobs have a button you can press. The function is what is shown above the button.
  • When in Home view (any page), you can double-click these to quickly go to the most common blocks:
    • A = Amp
    • B = Drive (Boost)
    • C = Cab
    • D = Delay
    • E = REverb

My approach to editing on the onboard UI is to avoid the Layout grid like the plague and just use the Edit button to cycle through blocks. This keeps the process more consistent as you don't hit that "Enter does not do the thing you think it would" inconsistency.

It was so much worse before the "Go to previous block" double-click Edit function was implemented. You had to Exit to the layout grid, cursor over to the previous block, remember to hit Edit instead of Enter and then edit the block. Then do that all over again whenever you needed to go to a previous block.

The cycling order of the Edit button is row->column, instead of e.g "next connected block or next block in parallel". This is generally fine on the FM3 where your signal path is most of the time just a straight line, but can be annoying on the FM9/Axe-Fx 3 with more complex signal paths.

Officially spooked again.



(Corrollary: officially happy with what I’ve already got again.)

 

[laxu]

Officially spooked again.



(Corrollary: officially happy with what I’ve already got again.)

Written out it sounds a lot more daunting than it actually is.

If you remember that "Enter is always Enter except this one thing, and Edit is almost never Edit" you can go pretty far.