JiveTurkey
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All of this. Back bank of synth and ambient stuff just because. I am going to export my JP2C, Recto and Marshall preset off the FM9 and then blank slate the III.
Speaking of the drip; Axe III incoming.
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James Freeman
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I'm not a fan of factory presets either and Fractal have nothing to proove.
Still, some of the more complex presets are good as reference for newbs like I will soon be.
Still, some of the more complex presets are good as reference for newbs like I will soon be.
OrganicZed
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Scrolling through the factory presets is a great way to find new inspiration and to avoid practicing.
JiveTurkey
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There are some good ones in there here and there. But for me; I just want to remove that layer of ADHD inclination that I am already wayyyyyyyyyyyy too susceptible to as is and just have it focused on the handful of Boogie stuff and curated mods/pitch/verbs/delay stuff.Is squashing the Factory Presets code for "I know am only ever going to use 3 or 4 tones on this thing?"
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Is squashing the Factory Presets code for "I know am only ever going to use 3 or 4 tones on this thing?"
Kinda the opposite. If I left them in there I’d only use 1-2 presets, after I tweaked the shit out of them.
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Probably because the component values are so all over the place that every one is unique!
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I can't keep up with what modellers Jive has, has had, and is having again
laxu
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The main problem with the factory presets is that they don't keep up with modeling updates. Which to be fair is a lot of work to make sure each of them sounds best every few fw versions, let alone when big new features like Dyna-Cabs appear.
I've ditched the factory presets too and don't feel it had a marked effect on boot times. But I never used them so might as well take any small improvements.
Plus the preset management tools available are pretty bad. They make Windows Explorer and MacOS Finder seem advanced.
I've ditched the factory presets too and don't feel it had a marked effect on boot times. But I never used them so might as well take any small improvements.
Plus the preset management tools available are pretty bad. They make Windows Explorer and MacOS Finder seem advanced.
Hmmm, I guess the scroll wheel moves fast enough through the presets (since it does like 24 or 30 per page) that I never found the factory "amp" presets to be much of an obstacle. I keep my custom stuff in the high 300s where the "user slots" are, and since the machine boots to the last location....that's good enough for me. No way in hell would I get rid of the sound design/synth stuff. That's gold.
But I mean, no presets are going to age perfectly throughout the firmware revisions. I used to live/die with @2112 and his amazing preset packs for FM3, but I find a lot of that just sounds ok now. I can roll much better with a blank preset, impedance curve and a Dynacab. He did create some cool sound design-y type ones I still use, like THIS:
As long as you play in 6/8 time, that preset is magic.
But I mean, no presets are going to age perfectly throughout the firmware revisions. I used to live/die with @2112 and his amazing preset packs for FM3, but I find a lot of that just sounds ok now. I can roll much better with a blank preset, impedance curve and a Dynacab. He did create some cool sound design-y type ones I still use, like THIS:
As long as you play in 6/8 time, that preset is magic.
JiveTurkey
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Had the SY1000 since it's release (around Covid times?) and the FM9 since last November. I have had the Stomp for about a year concurrently till I moved it towards theI can't keep up with what modellers Jive has, has had, and is having again
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This is one of those things I must not grasp due to my lack of UI education, but I just open the Preset Manager and drag/drop the presets where I want them and I can’t really conceive a way that’d be any easier to do than…..dragging and dropping them to where I want them.
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Perhaps he was talking about the ability to better search on a preset based on meta-data i.e. better descriptors that searchable.
Dunno
laxu
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There is no way to categorize, group, sort or filter them in any sensible way once they are on the device.
I don't think they need some detailed metadata or anything like that (even if that could be useful) but just basic stuff like folder structures.
The only ways to categorize and group presets is leaving empty spaces and to add empty presets with the name of a category.
To be fair pretty much all modelers are pretty crap at the same stuff.
JiveTurkey
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I think there are points where criticizing gear is as much of a hobby as playing the gear
laxu
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Well you sometimes need a break from all the wine tasting and food evaluation!I think there are points where criticizing gear is as much of a hobby as playing the gear
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Are those the Live Gold presets? How do you like those?
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Yep, Live Gold. I love them, but I consider them to be more utilitarian than anything that’s going to drive creativity. It organizes all the amps with a matching cab and then lists them by amp brand and overall gain type. So when I think “I want a Twin for this next part”, I don’t have to remember Fractal’s own name for a Twin, nor do I have to find an IR for it because it’s already paired with something to deliver a legit Twin sound.
It’s more of an organizational/time saving tool than anything else to me. Absolutely worth the price of admission just for organizing alone.
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Everybody decided to buy one right before they went on sale
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