I usually just try to have everything well thought-out in rehearsals so I don't need to edit anything during a gig, which is something I just couldn't afford (singing, playing guitar and switching things in Helix with my right foot and in my Boss VE-500 with my left foot is already pretty hard XD).
I'm playing lots of subbing and telephone band gigs, so that's an entirely different thing. No rehearsals at all.
and if I ever sound like I'm trying to go further than that, I'm sorry.
As said, it's all fine. Didn't want to start an argument, no hard feelings, either.
For me it's just "been there, done that" - so I'm pretty aware of what I'm wishing for and how I think things could be implemented.
In a nutshell: Just as a lot of folks want the sound of analog amps and what not to be nailed, I want the usability aspect to be nailed as well. And crawling on the floor to adjust things, maybe even having to select items beforehand, simply is quite the opposite of turning around to your amp, grab one knob, turn it and be done with it.
I hope the words I'm using aren't rude, as that's not my intention at all.
No, you weren't rude. And my reply wasn't meant to be rude at all, either.
True that. Although in terms of marketing, that feature is way easier to work with in order to sell a product than "global layers to make MIDI editing easier", which is something most people wouldn't even understand at all ^_^U
It's pretty much a general thing. All things "just usability" or utilitarian simply aren't great fodder for promotion.
For instance, I only bought a Helix Floor when there was an option to deactivate snapshot bypass. I know I'd love snapshots and would want to use them, but the way they were implemented at first was in the way. Adding that little piece of functionality made a huge difference for me and once I learned it was introduced, I started looking for a Floor - at the same time, I didn't even spend a second looking for new fancy amps and FX, I just knew I'd get along with what was there a long time before. And when you look up HX Floor YT videos, you will hardly ever see anything regarding usability being mentioned. Sure, snapshot introduction was praised, but the smaller things usually go under the radar.
Same with MIDI control now not being tied to snapshots anymore. When I went through my BCR experiments, it'd be just kickass to have that already, and it's been the main reason for me to not try to expand the idea further. Might've changed some things in my Floor relationship.
Add to this that whenever I'm bringing up any such things, I'm almost treated as an outlier. Just when I demonstrated my BCR setup to some folks, they were like "oh, that's excellent!" - unfortunately there's no video of it (only one of me controlling things through a tablet, which isn't as impressive). Maybe I should recreate something similar with the Stomp (even if I don't need it for my small Stomp board) and do a video.
I mean, seriously, by now there's small and affordable MIDI controllers that you could possibly mount to a small mic stand, always in reach, no need to bow down or crawl around, no need to look for and select any specific parameters, everything would just be mapped, allowing for instant WYSIWYG control. Hence pretty much every bit as you'd do with analog equipment. Which, at least IMO, still trumps any currently available options in terms of quick sound adjustments on a live stage.
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