Transferring Blocks Between Products - Fractal Audio AX8 Owner's Manual

TRANSFERRING BLOCKS BETWEEN PRODUCTS

The AX8, FX8 and Axe-Fx II cannot share presets, but you CAN transfer individual effect block settings from
one product to another using our editor software applications: AX8-Edit, FX8-Edit, and Axe-Edit.
Axe-Fx Blocks from firmware 18.04 or newer (including all "Quantum" versions) are supported in this way.
ABOUT THE BLOCK LIBRARY
The Block Library feature is one of the best reasons to use our editors. It allows you to save a collection of
fully-dialed-in blocks to draw from whenever you are creating or editing presets. For example, you might
save a favorite perfectly-tweaked Drive block as "Tweaked Screamer". Once you do, it only takes a few
mouse clicks to drop this block in wherever and whenever you need it. It is the files created by the Block
Library that make it possible to transfer blocks from one unit to another.
EXAMPLE: BLOCK TRANSFER FROM AN AXE-FX TO AN AX8
In this example we'll transfer an Amp block from Axe-Edit to AX8-Edit by copying a block .syx file from the
Axe-Edit Block Library to the AX8-Edit Block Library.
1. Run Axe-Edit. Find the block you wish to transfer.
2. Add that block to the Axe-Edit block library:
ƒ Select the block.
ƒ Click the "+" (plus) menu in the Blocks Library control in the lower left and select "Save".
ƒ Give your block a meaningful name. "My Amp" is not good. "Amp Deluxe Mid Crunch" is great.
3. Repeat the above steps for any number of blocks you wish to transfer. TIP: Axe-Edit includes
a feature which allows you to save ALL Blocks in the current preset to the library at once!
4. Locate the block on your computer using Finder or Explorer.
Shortcut: Click the Block Library "+" menu and choose "Show Folder".
5. Select the file(s) for your block(s) and copy to your computer's clipboard
using the keyboard shortcut for COPY (Cmd/Ctrl + C)
6. Now open the AX8-Edit Block Library folder. If you don't know where it is, use the same shortcut:
ƒ Launch AX8 Edit and select any block on the grid.
ƒ Click the "+" (plus) menu in the Blocks Library control in the lower left and choose "Show Folder".
7. Paste your Axe-Edit blocks into th AX8-Edit Blocks library using
the keyboard shortcut for PASTE (Cmd/Ctrl + V)
8. If it is already running, re-launch AX8-Edit so it can scan your new blocks.
9. To INSERT from the block library, choose any grid space (empty or populated)
and choose Block : Library : Recall from the top menu.
The location of the library can be changed for each program under Settings : Preferences : Workspace. Once
you know where the libraries are, you can simply use Finder or Explorer to copy/paste or drag and drop files
from one to the other.
You can change the location of the Block Library folder on your computer for each of our editors
(though you'll need to move pre-existing blocks manually.) One possibility is setting the Block
Workspace for multiple editors to the same folder, though after doing so you may see a warning
in Axe-Edit if your version (pre 3.4.0) is too old to load blocks created by AX8-Edit.
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