OK, folks...got some random behaviour that's almost certainly a lack of understanding on my part. I've got an HX Effects, which I've set up (via the Command Centre) in stomp mode so that the switches do this:
<stomp> <stomp> <snap 4>
<snap 1> <snap 2> <snap 3>
My problem is that pressing any of the snapshot switches sometimes switches to the snapshot, but sometimes - randomly - it just pre-selects it (don't really know what to call it) and I have to hit it a second time to actually switch to that snapshot.
What on earth have I done wrong here?
Comments
In Command Center each button is set up as follows:
Command: HX Snapshot
Type: Press/Release
Press: Snapshot n
Release: None
My general parameter for Snapshots is for the Snapshot mode to be latched rather than momentary, but as I'm in Stomp view that seems neither here nor there.
Argh.
When I press a button sometimes, it displays the parameters for the stomp or snapshot in question, instead of switching to the snapshot. It seems like it wants me to edit the thing, which is the opposite of what I'm looking for. What I can't get over is the randomness of it.
So, basically, if I want to do this live I have to look at the HX FX, hit the button, look at it again to see if it's actually done anything, and then hit the button again if necessary. That seems bonkers, and I can't believe that it's supposed to work like this.
That's bloody terrible design, having preset information that the user can't access which directly affects the unit's function. I honestly thought Line 6 were much better than that.
The only way to fix it was to copy a blank preset over the top of it, and rebuilt my preset.
I'm actually pretty angry about it. I've wasted a whole day trying to get this shit working, when I was supposed to be building my pedalboard and rewiring the rack. Now it's pissing it down outside, so I can't do any of the woodwork or spraying that I was planning to...and I've got rehearsal on Thursday, when all of this has to be ready.
All because somebody at Line 6 couldn't be arsed to fix an obvious problem.
Sounds a right shemozzle.