Took the FM9 for a gig this weekend a week after getting it. Worked out ok except for when I was getting my song presets ready.
I made a separate preset for the first song (copy of the kitchen sink preset I’ve been working with all week), tweaked the scenes for the song parts and made a layout that I would use live. When I finished it I saved it and saved it again to the next slot for the next song, then I switched to that one and renamed and tweaked it for that song. Rinse and repeat. Was working pretty good and quick once I got my method figured out and realized where I needed scene controllers to make things faster.
This preset runs at about 79% dsp, occasionally up to 81.
Then, disaster struck…. A few tunes in, the preset got corrupted, and whatever got busted propagated to the next one and the next one. I found the mistake when I was running over the tunes again. When going from scene 1 to scene 2 there was a huge delay, like 15 seconds, sometimes the audio cut out too. If the thing was still responsive I had to go to another preset to get it back, other times I had to reboot the unit. Didn’t matter which preset or what was changing in the scene, going from scene 1 to 2 on any of those corrup presets caused the bug.
I wiped out the ones that were messed up and built them again, never had a problem after that.
So the point… how often does this happen? It’s my first week with it and that did not leave me with a lot of confidence. It worked fine for the gig. I don’t want to waste a lot of time rebuilding presets because they get corrupted. If this is a really rare occurence, it’s fine. I have had rare sporadic issues like this with Helix too. If it happens with any regularity, that’s a different story.
D
I made a separate preset for the first song (copy of the kitchen sink preset I’ve been working with all week), tweaked the scenes for the song parts and made a layout that I would use live. When I finished it I saved it and saved it again to the next slot for the next song, then I switched to that one and renamed and tweaked it for that song. Rinse and repeat. Was working pretty good and quick once I got my method figured out and realized where I needed scene controllers to make things faster.
This preset runs at about 79% dsp, occasionally up to 81.
Then, disaster struck…. A few tunes in, the preset got corrupted, and whatever got busted propagated to the next one and the next one. I found the mistake when I was running over the tunes again. When going from scene 1 to scene 2 there was a huge delay, like 15 seconds, sometimes the audio cut out too. If the thing was still responsive I had to go to another preset to get it back, other times I had to reboot the unit. Didn’t matter which preset or what was changing in the scene, going from scene 1 to 2 on any of those corrup presets caused the bug.
I wiped out the ones that were messed up and built them again, never had a problem after that.
So the point… how often does this happen? It’s my first week with it and that did not leave me with a lot of confidence. It worked fine for the gig. I don’t want to waste a lot of time rebuilding presets because they get corrupted. If this is a really rare occurence, it’s fine. I have had rare sporadic issues like this with Helix too. If it happens with any regularity, that’s a different story.
D
