paddymercier Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Greetings. I'm using my HD500 as both a midi foot controller and external fx unit for a Kemper Profiler. I'm operating in F5-F8 mode and using all 8 switches to toggle effects within the HD500. I have grown to love the Line6 arsenal of delays, modulations, filters and synths, so piping these effects into the fx loop of the Kemper gets an amazingly diverse set of sounds. I've got HD500 patch changes triggering rig changes in the Kemper fine. My goal is to have sets of clean, dirty and lead guitar tones on the Kemper that share the same set of fx from the HD500. So bank 1, for instance, on the HD500 would look like this: 1A = Clean 1B = Dirty 1C = Lead 1D = Empty So I went about creating an HD500 patch in patch 1A with all of the effects that I want - then I duplicate that patch down to 1B and 1C. What I'm trying to do is have the HD500 act much like a pedalboard would in that I'd be able to switch between guitar tones (clean to dirty to lead) without effecting the status of the fx. So for instance - I'd want to perhaps activate a clean delay sound during a verse and switch my guitar tone to dirty for a chorus while retaining the delay. All of the research and testing that I've done is leading to me to believe that you can't retain fx settings as you switch from patch to patch. It seems like the the HDs are designed for a more planned out approach (i.e., build this tone with this set of fx for this specific purpose)...but you can't really freely and seamlessly use a certain set of fx as you meander through your patches. So just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this that I may be missing? Thanks to you all - looking forward to hearing back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 ...All of the research and testing that I've done is leading to me to believe that you can't retain fx settings as you switch from patch to patch. It seems like the the HDs are designed for a more planned out approach (i.e., build this tone with this set of fx for this specific purpose)...but you can't really freely and seamlessly use a certain set of fx as you meander through your patches. .... That's correct. Each preset has to be set up with the specific set of FX that you want, and their respective parameters set identically. The best way to do this is to figure out your FX and all settings first, in one preset. Then you can copy that preset (all FX and settings will be retained in the copy) to another location and edit just the amp. Inevitably, of course, you will later decide to change something involving the FX. Unfortunately you will have to make that change in all presets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddymercier Posted November 21, 2015 Author Share Posted November 21, 2015 Thanks for the reply silverhead! Yep - I have set each of the patches up separately and each one contains the same exact fx. What I'm trying to do is, say, when I'm on my clean sound and decide to switch on my chorus effect, I would like for that chorus effect to stay on when I switch to the dirty sound. It makes sense to me that you wouldn't be able to have that happen...but just wondering if I'm missing some setting that somehow 'latches' the state of an effect from patch to patch if that effect exists patch to patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonsms Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 you may benefit from trying to get your distortion as an on/off on a single patch. It takes some experimentation to get it right level and eq'wise but is possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexKenivel Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 are you using the pod for just the fx while getting amp sounds from the Kemper? If so, then why not just have one patch with amps off, with all the fx you want, and do all the channel switching via the Kemper? of course I've never used my pod as a midi controller, so it's just a theory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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