soulfly777 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Okay, my GF just got me the HD500 for Christmas and I have yet to find a video or friend to help me program this thing the way I want it. I've been a Digitech guy for years...I love the easy, intuitive way you program them. Anyway, the way I've always used my RP1000 is programming each button to have its own set of preset effects. So to better explain, I don't use the distortion from my amp head so I have a clean, dry signal running to whatever FX processor I am using. So button 1 is my main rhythm distortion, 2 is a clean with chorus n delay, 3 is a hi mid, short delay lead, 4 is a phase shifter distortion, 5 is an ambient distorted lead, 6 is a different ambient lead, 7 is an ambient, high reverb clean, etc... That is how I want my FS1 thru FS8 set up on the HD500. But everytime I try to program it, it only lets me do one effect per button...like a stomp box. I want each of the 8 buttons to be an individual, stand-alone line of preset effects. Is this possible? If so, please help! If not, I guess I'm going to sell the thing. Thanks for any and all help. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 That is how I want my FS1 thru FS8 set up on the HD500. But everytime I try to program it, it only lets me do one effect per button...like a stomp box. I want each of the 8 buttons to be an individual, stand-alone line of preset effects. Is this possible? If so, please help! If not, I guess I'm going to sell the thing. Thanks for any and all help. Steve You are in "stomp box mode"...that's why each footswitch is only toggling one effect on or off within the one patch you're working with. The only other option is "A,B,C,D" mode...with that set-up, you can have 4 discrete tones per bank (each with whatever FX you choose), and footswitches 5 thru 8 can be used to toggle individual FX within each patch (A,B,C, or D). What you can't have is a bank of 8 separate presets...that's not an option. What is possible, and quite effective is setting up dual-amp patches. Path A can be a clean tone, and Path B dirty, or a rhythm tone and a lead. Each path can then be assigned to the expression pedal, and you can morph seamlessly between them. This way you'd have 2 discrete tones per patch in A,B,C,D mode...effectively you'd have the 8 diffrent tones in one bank that you're looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulfly777 Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 Problem is, I want the expression pedal for volume as I do a lot of ambient swells in my band. Can I do both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Problem is, I want the expression pedal for volume as I do a lot of ambient swells in my band. Can I do both? Not if it's set to toggle between different amp models, but you could easily add an external volume pedal in the FX loop for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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