Exclusive switching among stomps

[tcamuso]

I have three delays. I don't want all of them on at the same time. I want only one of them to be on at any given time.

For those of you familiar with logic, the truth table would look like this:

D1  D2  D3
 0   0   0
 1   0   0
 0   1   0
 0   0   1

So, I want to have them ALL off, or only just one of them on at any given time.

I can't do this with snapshots, because I've already used 4 snapshots for other things, so I need to do this with stomps and footswitches.

My current layout is:

Stomp-1  Stomp-2  Stomp-3  Stomp-4

Snap-1   Snap-2   Snap-3   Snap-4

 

 

[zappazapper]

AFAIK you can't do it with stomps.

 

I often find myself wishing that there were multiple "layers" to snapshots. Like in your example you already have other things controlled by snapshots, and I'm assuming you've turned off Snapshot Bypass on your delay blocks so that they're not controlled by snapshots. Imagine if instead of only being able to turn off Snapshot Bypass, the option instead was, say, "Snapshot Assign", and your options were Off, A, B (maybe 2 layers is enough). "Off" would be the same as turning Snapshot Bypass off, "A" would be the same as current snapshot behavior, but "B" would be a second layer of snapshots that are independent from the first. So in your example, you could control your delay blocks with snapshot layer B and it wouldn't affect anything being controlled by snapshot layer A, and vice versa.

 

I think I'm gonna make an IdeaScale post.

[tcamuso]

Thanks, zz.

 

I'll probably have to figure some other way to effect this.

 

Is there any way to have an exclusive A or B? I can assign a foot switch to the A/B split and get 100% B, but when I toggle the foot switch to bypass the split, I get B merged with A, when what I want is 100% A.

 

So, I want an A/B split that gives me 100% A and 0% B, or 0% A and 100% B.

1 hour ago, zappazapper said:

 

 

[phil_m]

You say you don’t want to use snapshots, but snapshots are the way to do this. Remember that as of the 2.90 update, you can assign snapshots to stomp switches in the Command Center. So even though you’re using the 4 Stomp/4 Snap view, you can still assign any of the snapshots 5-8 to your Stomp switches.

[tcamuso]

41 minutes ago, phil_m said:

You say you don’t want to use snapshots, but snapshots are the way to do this. Remember that as of the 2.90 update, you can assign snapshots to stomp switches in the Command Center. So even though you’re using the 4 Stomp/4 Snap view, you can still assign any of the snapshots 5-8 to your Stomp switches.

 

Thanks for the reply, phil_m, but I'm already using snapshots. I've got 4 snapshots and 4 stomps. I need to have the stomps to add effects to the snapshots, which give me lead, crunch, in-between, and clean by changing settings on the compressor, overdrive, EQ, and amp blocks.

 

So, that leaves the four stomps to add FX. Four stomps and four snapshots allows for many more combinations than just 8 snapshots. With the 4-snapshot/4-stomp configuration, I have 76 (4 * 4! + 4)  possible combinations.

 

[cruisinon2]

15 hours ago, tcamuso said:

I can't do this with snapshots, because I've already used 4 snapshots for other things...

 

 

 

Each snapshot can control up to 64 individual amp or effect parameters, as well as on/off states of any given effect... so unless you've already hit that limit you shouldn't have any trouble doing exactly what you want with the delays. I have some pretty complicated patches, and I've never come anywhere close to hitting that ceiling.

[tcamuso]

17 minutes ago, cruisinon2 said:

 

Each snapshot can control up to 64 individual amp or effect parameters, as well as on/off states of any given effect... so unless you've already hit that limit you shouldn't have any trouble doing exactly what you want with the delays. I have some pretty complicated patches, and I've never come anywhere close to hitting that ceiling.

 

OK. I can have up to 8 snapshots, and each snapshot can control a myriad of parameters, but there are still only 8 possible sounds.

If you have 4 snapshots and 4 stomps, then each of the snapshots can have up to 4 additional FX added to them. That's 4 factorial  (4 x 3 x 2 x 1) combinations of FX for each snapshot, PLUS each snapshot with no stomps activated. That means with just 8 footswitches, I can have up to 76 different sounds.

 

Example. You have a snapshot for lead. You've tweaked dozens of parameters in your EQ, Compression, Overdrive and Amp blocks for this snapshot.

Now you have four stomp  switches. One for Chorus, one for Delay, one for Slapback Echo, one for Reverb.

Now you can have your lead tone dry, or with any combination of chorus, delay, slapback and reverb.

 

AND you can do that for the other three snapshots, as well.

 

This is powerful stuff!