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

[Jarick]

I don't know if this is the place to request this, but maybe someone can forward it to someone intelligent at Boss or Roland.

I'm sure that this has been requested by others, but I got kicked off the Gear Page .(a badge of honor IMO).. :)
That said, this relates to the GT-1000/Core editor.

1. In all platforms, allow us to delete/insert blocks in the chain so we don't have a long line of unused blocs cluttering up our patches.
2. Also, in iOS platform, allow for landscape mode - most of my chains are relatively short, and unnecessary scrolling is a PITA.

C'mon, Boss, it is 2025, and these are your flagship models. I can accept no LCD screen, but these are trivial programming sollutions that would be easy for a moderately skilled programmer to accomplish... And would save lots of users time and effort (and frustration). I can see why it would be more difficult on the GX-10 but even then.....

Lol congrats on the jump to here!

Completely agree, there's a lot of cleanup work needed. Hell I bought an iPad stand specifically to hold my device in portrait to use with Boss stuff. And it's a PITA so I just didn't use it and ended up selling most of the Boss gear.

I love just how efficient Boss can be with things when they put their mind to it. Having the lowest latency of any digital devices, being one of the first to have truly gapless preset switching, squeezing a crazy amount of DSP into a compact modeler, and even running a full amp/cab modeler in a compact box that runs off a 9V battery.

But there's a lot of opportunity in the UX/UI world. Would be awesome to see updates to solve the things you pointed out, or other QOL things like being more flexible with DSP (TWO delays???) or stereo controls on some blocks.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I love just how efficient Boss can be with things when they put their mind to it. Having the lowest latency of any digital devices, being one of the first to have truly gapless preset switching, squeezing a crazy amount of DSP into a compact modeler, and even running a full amp/cab modeler in a compact box that runs off a 9V battery.

Add to this that pretty much all Boss hardware is made to last. Apart from the power input socket of a GT-5 needing replacement, I can't remember any fail of any Boss unit I ever owned.
For me, being mainly a live player, that is of incredible value.

 

[HomespunEffects]

… I have noticed that pulling back the 500k band by 3 - 5 dB straight after the amp helps reduce this problem. …

500k??

 

[afonsom98]

Add to this that pretty much all Boss hardware is made to last. Apart from the power input socket of a GT-5 needing replacement, I can't remember any fail of any Boss unit I ever owned.
For me, being mainly a live player, that is of incredible value.

I did something weird yesterday with my Boss GT-1000. I have seen a lot of videos about input level in audio interfaces. Boss GT-1000 has the same advice about raising/decreasing the level bellow clipping. But I thought "well, my single coil guitar is weaker in output than my EMG guitar", and putting everything at the same level seems weird. So I put an eq block and "compensated the volume level taken off from the input level". Don´t know if its placebo (probably is) but my EMG guitar feels better to play now. My input level is -7db, so in the EQ block (before everything) I added 7 db.

 

[TheBigDipper]

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1. In all platforms, allow us to delete/insert blocks in the chain so we don't have a long line of unused blocs cluttering up our patches.

When I owned a GTk, I dragged all the blocks I didn't want to use over to the right hand end of the chain and made sure the outputs saw the signal before those blocks did (so they didn't). It helped focusing on what I was interested in a little easier.

 

[Sascha Franck]

When I owned a GTk, I dragged all the blocks I didn't want to use over to the right hand end of the chain and made sure the outputs saw the signal before those blocks did (so they didn't). It helped focusing on what I was interested in a little easier.

Good idea.

 

[Leperclown]

500k??

Apologies, 500Hz in the Graphic EQ