I think the virtual capo feature is fantastic, but I still don't understand why there isn't one setting on the knob which is marked CAPO, or USER, or CUSTOM so that you can have just one slot that has your own custom tuning, or whatever your current CAPO setting is, without having to overwrite a factory tuning. The idea that I have to overwrite a factory tuning in order to use the virtual capo, and then remember to tune that setting back to the factory tuning again if I want to go back to it seems to be much less elegant than it could have been with at least one dedicated slot for a user tuning.

Or am I misunderstanding something about the tuning knob?

Line6Perry wrote:

 

In other words, you can overwrite every single one of those Tuning slot positions with your own. I have a feeling this was the answer you were looking for all along...

 

But by default, our Product Development team arbitrary chose to have the knob labeled with those specific tunings as Factory Defaults (as a starting point, or perhaps for people who don't plan to overwrite them and just default to them out of convenience?). Most users will probably overwrite those with their own custom tunings as time goes by.

 

I guess I'm just a user who wants to have access to all those factory tunings. I see the value in each of them. I like the idea of picking a guitar and then noodling around with different tunings to see what kind of inspirations I will have... or vise versa. The idea that I will have overwrite any one of those useful factory tunings just gets under my skin. I would have felt a whole lot better about it to have a CAPO position which stores whatever current alternate tuning I have created.

I suppose I will just have to get clever with programming favorite guitars with certain altered tunings which will automatically be accessed in MODEL mode of the tuning knob.

That sounds like a lot of extra work going back and forth. I think I will have to determine which of the alternate tunings I would tend to use the least and then use that one as my toggle tuning. I don't want to have to do extra work every time I go back to the most often used Standard Tuning.

I think I will use one of the open tunings since these can be easily rebuilt by using the electronic capo and just fingering the open chord which is the same as the open tuning you want to use. This also means that you can do variations of open tunings--i.e. an alternate Open A tuning by using different notes from the A chord in combination with the open strings to make a different Open A tuning.