Boss GT-1000 (and possibly other things Boss...)

[Jack Luminous]

Might be easy, but it's horribly slow regarding each and every aspect.



You couldn't be further away from the truth. It's my 3rd GT unit.



No. Compared to the competition it's awkwardly slow. Proveably so.

And I have no idea why you would compare things to older Eventide or Lexicon units. Where's their amp modelers?

Ok I stand corrected, you are used to Boss units and editing might not be the fastest although it could be discussed. But I find it easy and logical. Learning curve is not totally awkward, I got the hang of it in a few days. I just compared to other notoriously hard-to-edit machines, not particularly modelers.

I don't care about the competition because it doesn't do what I want and doesn't sound as good as the GT1000 IMHO (using a GT1000Core personally). I agree, other modelers have bigger, touch-enabled screen etc. I love the Boss/Roland sound and ergonomy.

 

[Sascha Franck]

But I find it easy and logical. Learning curve is not totally awkward,

It really depends on what you're trying to do. Try to assign multiple functions to one switch on the unit. It's downright awkward in the editor already (especially given it's clunkyness due to things being connected via MIDI - in 20-fucking-25...), and just super horrible on the unit.
Things were sort of manageable on, say, the GT-10 because the overall amount of parameters has been vastly less - but with all the possible parameters available these days, it's an endless scrollfest.
Then compare it to, say, a Helix. It's a difference like night on Neptune and day on Mercury.

Really, Boss could do *so* much better in terms of public reception if they adressed the several UI issues.

 

[ian_dissonance]

It really depends on what you're trying to do. Try to assign multiple functions to one switch on the unit. It's downright awkward in the editor already (especially given it's clunkyness due to things being connected via MIDI - in 20-fucking-25...), and just super horrible on the unit.
Things were sort of manageable on, say, the GT-10 because the overall amount of parameters has been vastly less - but with all the possible parameters available these days, it's an endless scrollfest.
Then compare it to, say, a Helix. It's a difference like night on Neptune and day on Mercury.

Really, Boss could do *so* much better in terms of public reception if they adressed the several UI issues.

The menu scrolling is kind of a PITA for assigns on the unit, much easier on the editor. Once I figured out the (really stupid) way to assign stuff to the number switches in preset mode it became much more functional.