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For the record I am loving snapshots and have programmed 10-ish presets with 4 snapshots each that do different things according to what I want to do with each preset - its very cool. As far as for my "complex" need - we play a song that has a crunchy distorted tone for the verse and a slightly dirtier and louder tone for the chorus. I am using snapshots with great aplomb for this. the tricky bit is when the bridge kicks in. I need a sound almost like a harpsicord. I am using a clean preset with chorus and octave pitch and it works great - but as you can imagine in stomp land I have limited DSP so there are no remaining blocks on the crunch tone preset to cover this. hence the need to switch to a different preset for this part... i could not make a house payment this month and buy a Helix or just use two presets. But the "default" snapshot that I store for PS1 might be fine for song 1 but not necessarily the default snapshot for song 2. hence my now infamous "terrible design decision" sentiment. ha. So in my git er done kind of way, I am planning on storing different default snapshots for my primary tones in different preset banks so I can switch between 4 presets for any given song and not have to click 4 buttons in a single beat. Again - this would be SO much mo betta if the last used snapshot was stored in memory rather than giving such priority to the "default" snapshot. just my $.03 Will send the two tones in another post. on a diff computer now. have a great weekend.

Thanks for the detailed explanation on the memory issues with what I was proposing. I lead software teams and have a lot of appreciation for what seems like a simple ask by users who are not entrenched on the nuances of the stack. So point taken. But regardless of the technical complexity I believe it would be a helpful option for any helix user to simply return to the preset with the last snapshot preserved. I don't think Silverhead meant to be spicy when you inferred that i only care about my narrow use case and wasn't considering all the other permutations of preserving snapshot state but all i can do is tell you what I find to be lacking in the product. I don't claim to speak for every use case but to return to the last used snapshot of a preset strikes me as a valuable feature and i stand by my ask. And contrary to data commando's assumption that i don't want to read documentation, I write a lot of technical documentation in my job and point many of my stakeholders to the info so I am big fan of docs. the issue is that the impact of reading documentation doesn't jump off the page for noobs. once one understands the solution the info can be understood in context. Bottom line is I appreciate you guys taking the time to respond about my feature request. I will address my need by changing presets and can work around the slight pause while the presets load. The tones I get out of my stomp XL are mind blowing and I am in love with the box thx

thanks for hanging in there with me Silverhead. I may be confusing the issue with the old school reference. What I feel would be a more natural behavior is for the stomp to track what the current snapshot of PS1 is. If I switch to PS2 and come back to PS1 it should just use the last snapshot - to assume that the user wants to go to a potentially different snapshot that was used when the snapshot was saved is an arbitrary assumption imho. I have two tones i was using for a song and I had to do unnecessary pedal dancing to simply get the snapshot I was using on PS1. Looks like what I need to do is to avoid snapshots and simply switch between the 2 presets i need.

Thanks for the err, bad news. Am I the only one that thinks that's a terrible design decision? In an old school pedal board this would not be the behavior as the state of the stomp box would remain what it was last set to? Since I am new here - what is the best way to socialize this request? thanks

noob question. I have 4 snapshots set up for the 4 presets I am using. Everything works great. BUT If I am on preset 1 snapshot 3 for example and I switch to preset 4, when I return to preset 1 I need the helix to remain on snapshot 3. Currently it always switches to snapshot 1 and then I have to pedal dance to get it to return to snapshot 3. Is there a config that preserves the snapshot state when switching between presets?

My brand new Stomp XL did not list any preset names when i first turned on the unit. I was not able to find a backup file of the HX Stomp XL factory preset. So I did a factory reset and created a backup file. hope this helps confused / new users. HX Stomp XL Factory Presets.hxb