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As with anything if you know what you are trying to achieve, it makes things far easier, finding uses for it from the features then you are learning in another way.
Basic switching, re routing loops, etc is all simple - If you just want it as manual mode, its as simple as using the pedals. If you want to save patches, switch to manual, turn them on and off, hit write, select a patch number, hit write, select name, hit write again - patch done.
PC and CC commands on midi are simple (once you know what you want to send).
On the downside there is so much they can do, but the manual tells you which is great if you know what you are looking for, not great if you don't know the term. But now there are so many guides and you tube videos you can be reassigning anything in a few minutes.
You can do just about anything. I have mine controlling all loops, 4 midi devices, expression pedal routed through either TRS or midi depending on pedal, amp channel switching etc etc. All very powerful and I worked it out without a manual really just by playing.
It does need a PC editor, something of an oversight by Boss, but hopefully coming later as Strymon did it over Midi, the principle is the same for the ES series.
Also the jacks are tight, so you will need careful cable selection
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Guitar > wah > ES-5 in
Loop 1 > comp
Loop 2 > drive
Loop 3 > drive
Loop 4 > FX send/return
Loop 5 > mod
ES-5 out > delay > reverb > amp
You can use the ES-5 to change the order of effects and move the FX loop around as well. so you and put your mods before or after your drive pedals. With the delay and reverb out of the ES-5 loops, you can't change the order but you can control them via midi so you can select presets, enable/disable them, send tap tempo via midi PC and CC commands from the ES-5.