User (Quick) Settings - Boss

GT-X Setup Manual

Section 5 Basic Configuration
This is just one example of how patches may be organised.
Patches are also organised by sound, i.e. bank 1 clean, bank
2 distorted and so on. Others who have to cope with using
multiple guitars often use 1 & 2 from each bank for one
guitar and 3 & 4 for another. Others have used say patch
bank 2 for one guitar and patch bank 3 for another and
patch bank 1 for yet another—all loaded with the same
patches but tweaked for different guitars. You could also
organise patches based on your gig. Song 1 patch bank 1,
song 2 patch bank 2 and so on. The GT-5 concepts of
groups of banks can help aid this organisation. You just
need to sit down with a pen and some paper and work out
what will work best for you in your situation.
As you can see in all of these examples though, each has
been planned, and even more importantly each one is
consistent.
Before filling in the user patches with my own stuff I
cleared down the user patches. I did this by using a patch
called ' <Empty> '. This patch contains my basic settings
for every patch and is based on 'Clean', except that it has
the Master Level at 0, NS and control assigns all turned off.
This avoids any accidents if you accidentally select it. Using
this patch enables me to quickly determine which patches
are available for programming and which are already full.

User (Quick) Settings

If you examine Appendix C and the section on Control
Assigns you will see that there are a large number of quick
settings available. It is possible for you, the user to have
four of your own quick settings saved. These are U1-U4.
I would suggest using these user quick settings for your
favourite effects parameters. This can save you lots of time
when you are building new patches. Not only will you have
the presets available but your four favourite settings!
When I set up my quick settings I obviously didn't use all
four user settings. This can lead to some confusion as they
are all named. So I went through each one, zeroed the effect
parameters and saved it with the name ' <Unused> '. Now
this was laborious and did take about an hour to an hour and
a half, but I only need to do it the once and it has removed
any confusion when using the quick settings. Unfortunately
you have no choice but to set these up by hand. AFAIK no
editor supports them (configuring them that is – I know the
editors do at least allow selection). Similarly if you rename
the quick settings the GT-3 Editor (and possibly the GT-5
Editor) will not pick these up.
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