Suggested Pedal Assignments; Automatic Manual Mode - Boss

GT-X Setup Manual

Suggested Pedal Assignments

I find the following pedal assignment template (I like re-
emphasising this) useful:
Bank Up:CS, Bank Down:TR
1:OD, 2:HR, 3:DD, 4:CE
1:CS, 2:OD, 3:HR
4:DD, 5:CE, B:TR
As I have an external tuner I have no real need to use the
on-board one (which I found temperamental with a drop D
tuning anyway). So I don't have the GT-3/5 tuner available
in manual mode that many of you may like to have
available. Also, if you use the pre-amps for distortion, you
might wish to alter the settings to:
Bank Up:CS, Bank Down:TU
1:PRE, 2:HR, 3:DD, 4:CE
1:CS, 2:PRE, 3:HR
4:DD, 5:CE, B:TU
Or, if you use the tremolo and OD/DS you might wish to
alter the settings to:
Bank Up:CS, Bank Down:TU
1:OD, 2:HR, 3:DD, 4:TR
1:CS, 2:OD, 3:HR
4:DD, 5:TR, B:TU
Whichever way you choose these should give you a good
idea about how to approach setting up manual mode for the
most benefit.

Automatic Manual Mode

This is great idea from Russ Poncher, which was posted to
the GT-3 Yahoo Group at the start of April 2000. The term
used was 'Automatic Manual Mode' and I think this
describes it perfectly.
© Copyright 2000-2002 Barry S. Pearce et al.
Section 11
Here is Russ's control assignment:
Assign 1
Target:
Min:
Max:
Source:
Mode:
Act. Range Lo:
Act. Range Hi:
Trig:
Time:
Curve:
This goes into manual mode for 7 seconds following a patch
change. If you need to use manual mode again, just press
the patch number again. The Slow Rise curve is used to
delay the switch over which occurs when the internal pedal
reaches about 63/64 in value. Oh. Don't be caught out by
Min:On and Max:Off – make sure you change them
or it won't be a very automatic manual mode!!
There are a couple more extended possibilities here. If you
cast your mind back I said that if you swap into manual
mode, turn some effects on or off, and the swap back to the
patch, pressing the patch number again WON'T reset the
patch. If you use the assignment above then what will
happen is the patch WILL RESET. If you don't like this
behaviour you can also set-up the CTL pedal to go in and
out of automatic mode. Thus providing you with two ways
of entering it; one automatic with patch reset and one
manual method. However, if you extend the automatic mode
idea further you can use two automatic modes, one of which
will reset the patch, the other won't. This can be done by
using the CTL pedal as a trigger rather than patch change
(don't forget to turn the CTL PEDAL stuff off as I'm sure
you won't want it as well). Thus by using 2 assignments you
get the best of both worlds.
One advantage of the patch change trigger is that the CTL
pedal remains free, and able to perform other tasks! One
disadvantage however, becomes apparent if you ever
change patches using the dial, or can't remember where the
patch you want is and you therefore are going up the
patches in relatively quick succession. With the dial, once
manual mode has been entered, continuing to turn the dial
will change which effect is controlled by whatever pedal
happened to be currently selected for editing....argh.
Painful. Although I should say I only use dial changing
rarely, normally I limit the patch selection to and set the dial
to be value change only. With the foot switch patch changes
all you end up doing is turning one two effects on/off.
Manual Mode
MANUAL On/Off
On
Off
Internal Pedal
Normal
0
127
PatchChange
70
Slow Rise
63