Fender Tone Master Pro: Episode IV - A New Hope

[Mikael Dez]

No, it is a great reason not to use foot switches as knobs. It is lazy design.

I really enjoy it on my QC - I don’t plan on using it live though and if I do it will be fired from desk modeler duty anyway

 

[Frodebro]

No, it is a great reason not to use foot switches as knobs. It is lazy design.

Honestly, I think it's a brilliant design. Using the switches as encoders and the scribble strips as mini displays for editing parameters allows for a ton of on-unit tweak ability without it becoming intimidatingly cluttered. But that makes durability even more important, and I don't know how robustly specced those components are. Usually with stuff like this the engineers spec out very high quality components, then the corporate bean counters swoop in and cut them off at the knees to reduce production costs and increase margins.

 

[metropolis_4]

Touchscreens are fine, but… there is nothing worse than trying to turn a virtual knob on a touchscreen

Sliders or nothing for me in a touchscreen

 

[cherryblossom]

Touchscreens are fine, but… there is nothing worse than trying to turn a virtual knob on a touchscreen

Sliders or nothing for me in a touchscreen

TMP has footswitches that also work as knobs which is my favorite part of it. So let's say I am in a preset and touch the amp, it zooms into the amp and all of the "footswitch knobs' now are assigned to a control (with value of each parameter showing up on the scribble strip above the knob) so I just dial the physical knob to change any amp parameter. That's how it is for cabs, pedals etc. I only use touch screen to select the pedal/cab/amp that I want to modify (amongst couple of other things), if that makes sense.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]