Well I hooked up but didn't deal with monkey and firmware. No problem in workbench. All I was really interested in was volume leveling strings and just as I remember with my 600, leveling makes a huge difference. I was gonna just play my first gig without doing it but I am so glad I took the trouble. After leveling strings and patches and other tid bits, man, what a difference. It seems to me that line 6 should at least be doing string relative levels as part of programming before the guitar ships out. It's ridiculously unbalanced and if you don't work through that, it really is a problem on gigs. Anyway, all good!