Fractal Talk

[James Freeman]

I hope all the useful shortcuts are in the manual or wiki?

 

[State of Epicicity]

I hope all the useful shortcuts are in the manual or wiki?

I can't copy from the pdf on my phone browser, but on page 105 of the Axe-FX III manual there's a list of double-tap shortcuts.

 

[norminal]

SHORTCUTS

The Axe-Fx Ill has several shortcuts and hidden features. These are summarized below.

IN GENERAL

• To show the Layout Grid for the current preset, push the VALUE wheel.
• Press EDIT to jump to the Edit menu for the currently selected block.

ON THE HOME PAGE

• Press ENTER to show the Layout Grid for the current preset.
• Use NAV LEFT/RIGHT to select presets and press NAV UP/DOWN or turn knob A to select scenes.

IN THE AMP BLOCK

• On the Output EQ page, press ENTER to flatten the EQ.
• On the Output EQ page, press NAV UP/DOWN to change the number of bands.

IN THE CAB BLOCK

• NAV to the Cab Number field and press ENTER to enter the Cab Picker for the selected.

ON THE GRID

• With any block selected, press-and-hold ENTER to create a series of shunts and cables to bridge empty space to the right. This will also CLEAR existing connectors between a series of blocks.

IN THE EDIT MENU OF ANY BLOCK

• Press EDIT to skip to the Edit menu of the next block, or multiple times to step through all blocks.

TO OPEN THE CONTROLLERS MENU

• Press the TEMPO button once.

ON THE SEQUENCER PAGE OF THE CONTROLLERS MENU

• With any Stage selected, press ENTER to randomize the values of all stages.

DOUBLE-TAP SHORTCUTS

Firmware 17.0 introduced new "double-tap" shortcuts to the front panel controls. These are listed here with other shortcuts

HOME - You can double-tap the HOME BUTTON to open the Layout grid.

EDIT - You can tap the EDIT button sequentially to step through all blocks in the current preset (top-to-bottom, left-to-right), or double-tap to step in reverse order.

STORE - You can double-tap STORE to skip directly to the final saving prompt without reviewing name or location changes.

PUSH-KNOBS: From any page in the Home menu or Layout menu (except "Tools"), double tap the A, B, C, D, and E knobs to jump directly to editing the following blocks:

1. Amp 1
2. Drive 1 (think "b for boost")
3. Cab 1
4. Delay 1
5. Reverb 1 (think "E-verb)

 

[Stone]

SHORTCUTS

The Axe-Fx Ill has several shortcuts and hidden features. These are summarized below.

IN GENERAL

• To show the Layout Grid for the current preset, push the VALUE wheel.
• Press EDIT to jump to the Edit menu for the currently selected block.

ON THE HOME PAGE

• Press ENTER to show the Layout Grid for the current preset.
• Use NAV LEFT/RIGHT to select presets and press NAV UP/DOWN or turn knob A to select scenes.

IN THE AMP BLOCK

• On the Output EQ page, press ENTER to flatten the EQ.
• On the Output EQ page, press NAV UP/DOWN to change the number of bands.

IN THE CAB BLOCK

• NAV to the Cab Number field and press ENTER to enter the Cab Picker for the selected.

ON THE GRID

• With any block selected, press-and-hold ENTER to create a series of shunts and cables to bridge empty space to the right. This will also CLEAR existing connectors between a series of blocks.

IN THE EDIT MENU OF ANY BLOCK

• Press EDIT to skip to the Edit menu of the next block, or multiple times to step through all blocks.

TO OPEN THE CONTROLLERS MENU

• Press the TEMPO button once.

ON THE SEQUENCER PAGE OF THE CONTROLLERS MENU

• With any Stage selected, press ENTER to randomize the values of all stages.

DOUBLE-TAP SHORTCUTS

Firmware 17.0 introduced new "double-tap" shortcuts to the front panel controls. These are listed here with other shortcuts

HOME - You can double-tap the HOME BUTTON to open the Layout grid.

EDIT - You can tap the EDIT button sequentially to step through all blocks in the current preset (top-to-bottom, left-to-right), or double-tap to step in reverse order.

STORE - You can double-tap STORE to skip directly to the final saving prompt without reviewing name or location changes.

PUSH-KNOBS: From any page in the Home menu or Layout menu (except "Tools"), double tap the A, B, C, D, and E knobs to jump directly to editing the following blocks:

1. Amp 1
2. Drive 1 (think "b for boost")
3. Cab 1
4. Delay 1
5. Reverb 1 (think "E-verb)

 

[Stone]

I'm Curious? when TGF first started out how much talk of Fractal madness was there compared to the insanity today?

 

[fretworn]

I'm Curious? when TGF first started out how much talk of Fractal madness was there compared to the insanity today?

If you only knew …. Lol

 

[State of Epicicity]

IN THE AMP BLOCK

• On the Output EQ page, press ENTER to flatten the EQ.

This one is outdated, although it's still in the manual. I let Matt know about it a while ago.

 

[State of Epicicity]

With any block selected, press-and-hold ENTER to create a series of shunts and cables to bridge empty space to the right. This will also CLEAR existing connectors between a series of blocks.

This is something I've never tried! That would be very handy.

 

[State of Epicicity]

A cool feature for inserting blocks in one row presets:

Say you want to put a drive between the input and amp blocks; you create the drive block on the same row in Axe-Edit to the right of your last block. Now, drag its entire row to the left, and when you drop the block, all the other rows will move one space to the right to accommodate it. It works kind of like the Move Block Left function in the Tools menu on the unit.

I didn't know about this forever, until I saw Matt do it in a YouTube video.

 

[DrewJD82]

I'm Curious? when TGF first started out how much talk of Fractal madness was there compared to the insanity today?

Eh, probably wasn’t quite as much just due to the amount of members, but I also think it’s kinda obvious that pretty much all the Fractal users that were once posting at TGP are now keeping Fractal discussion over here and that probably creates the situation where Fractal dominates here.

 

[hemmelight]

Been watching a bunch of Sting live concerts from the early 90s lately and really digging Dominic's tones, so decided to revisit my Mesa sounds. He used a Mark III back in the day, but I managed to approximate his clean sound using the Triaxis Green clean mode and paired it with Triaxis Yellow for lead stuff.

I built the whole preset using the Cali 4x12 cab from the Factory bank of IRs, which according to the wiki is actually Cliff's personal cab from back in the day? Sounds great - perfect pairing with the Triaxis. Just used the first IR marked 57 A, I believe.

 

[yek]

I hope all the useful shortcuts are in the manual or wiki?

11 User interface

 

[State of Epicicity]

11 User interface

Damn, I was looking all over for that page!

 

[TravisG406]

My contribution to UI was the suggestion of pushing the A button that gets you in to the tuner a second time to exit the tuner

 

[SwirlyMaple]

This is something I've never tried! That would be very handy.

This is one of the shortcuts you definitely need to know. I don’t use everything in that list, but there are a few that I think are essential.

Also, tip for Helix users: on the Helix, pressing the knob is “Enter,” but on Fractal it takes you to layout view, which caused me to jump to different screens constantly by accident. So I disabled the push functionality of the knob, and rely on double-tapping enter to go to layout view. Works great for me.

 

[Frodebro]

Laxu's actually made a few contributions to the Fractal UI over the years. It's why we don't penalize him per UI post.

Laxu is a master of presentation, and always constructs his thoughts in a manner that doesn't come across as negative or bitchy. That goes a long way with people...

 

[TSJMajesty]

I hope all the useful shortcuts are in the manual or wiki?

Everything's in the Wiki. As soon as something is added/changed, and written up in the RN's, Yek adds it. And any comment Cliff makes, Yek adds that too, with a link to the post where he commented.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I got the JPIIC Shred Boost added to the Input Boost types! Although the way Cliff answered me, it sounded like he was already working on it, and my timing just happened to coincide.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Laxu is a master of presentation, and always constructs his thoughts in a manner that doesn't come across as negative or bitchy. That goes a long way with people...

As someone who often gets annoyed by UI Crusaders, I completely agree. Laxu be classy.

 

[unix-guy]

This one is outdated, although it's still in the manual. I let Matt know about it a while ago.

Doesn't a double-tap work for that?