jaco_fourie Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hi all. I am new to the POD world. I have a POD HD 500X and will be getting a Variax Standard as soon as they come available. I have a question that may be simple to answer. I see a lot of people in videos change patches and guitars with one button on the controller (The 6 foot ninja demo's), but if I want to change a patch I have to hit the up or down buttons first to show the 4 patches I can choose from and then hit the button that corresponds to the patch I want (that is if the patch is close enough to show on the screen, else I have to scroll up or down to the one I want). If I wait to long it will go back to the patch and then all the buttons control items in my patch chain. So my question is this. I want to move between the 2 modes. Either changes patches with out having to hit the up and down arrows. This will change amps effects and guitar as set-up in the patch Or go to the mode where I stay in one patch and I control the chain items. Is this possible and if so how do I do that ? Kind Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Jaco, do you know that you can move your patches around? That way, if you want a two patches side by side, you can do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaco_fourie Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Thank you for that. Yes I know I can move them around. I have done that. So this means I can have only 4 patches to go to by pressing 1 button. I will still have to move to the set of 4 where the patch is I am looking for. Also what happens if I use a patch that somebody else assigned one of those 4 (ABCD)to a item in the chain. Does it just not work? Pity you can not move between the 2 modes on the fly as that would give you flexibility to choose a tone and guitar with one button. and then while you play move the mode so you can control effects items in the chain. Guess you can not have your cake and eat it ;-) Thanks again for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunpointmetal Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Two pedal presses is still pretty efficient considering you can literally change your whole rig with effects control. Even in ABCD mode you still have 5 effects on/off switches available (top row plus toe switch) which can have multiple effects assigned in a variety of combinations you still have a lot of control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaco_fourie Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 I agree. It is very affective. I think I should just group together my songs so I go down the patch list 4 at a time. I don't think I would need to have more than 4 effects to switch on and off anyway so no big problem there. I just need to get use to the workflow of the POD. I use a G-System with a Mesa head with an Amp Gizmo on my analog rig and everything changes with one foot switch, it is the same as the ABCD mode so all should be the same and familiar if I switch to this mode. Thanks all for your valuable input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Plus, with 512 patch slots available.... Unless you want 512 footswitches to choose from, the best you would be able to do is 3 clicks --- ten footswitches numbered 0-9. press 5. press 1. press 2. There you have 512. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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