The Save Edits Footswitch; Ia Switch Types - Fractal Audio MFC-101 MARK III Owner's Manual

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5.2.6 The Save Edits Footswitch
The EDIT footswitch doubles as a SAVE switch which can be used to store changes to General Use IA Switch states
on-­‐the-­‐fly without entering EDIT MODE as described above in section 5.2.3.
You may remember that saved IA Switch states cause a burst of MIDI data when any preset is loaded, enabling a
kind of "scene recall" across the various connected MIDI devices. With Save Edits enabled, the SAVE footswitch
LED will flash when it detects changes to the states of one or more IA Switches. Pressing the flashing footswitch
stores the change(s) in the current preset. Selecting another MFC-­‐101 preset discards the changes without saving.
The Save Edits footswitch function is disabled by default. See p. 69 for how to turn it on.
! IMPORTANT: Changes to IA Switches assigned to Axe-­‐Fx functions will NOT activate the SAVE EDITS function, NOR will state
changes be saved. This is because the Axe-­‐Fx, and not the MFC-­‐101, is responsible for storing the states of Axe-­‐Fx effect blocks.
After you use the MFC-­‐101 to change Axe-­‐Fx IA Switch states, however, it is possible to save the preset on the Axe-­‐Fx in the usual
way (STORE:ENTER:ENTER) so the next time it is loaded it will be as you last "stomped" it. If you save Axe-­‐Fx changes "mid-­‐
stream," you will need to reload the current MFC-­‐101 preset to update.
5.3 IA Switch Types
The MFC-­‐101 allows you to change the behavior of any IA Switch to Momentary (aka "Hold"), Toggle (aka
"Latching"), or "Auto-­‐Off," (aka "Quick Tap") which sends both the ON and OFF messages in rapid succession.
Except Axe-­‐Fx Tap Tempo, which IGNORES switch type settings, switch types may be set freely for both Axe-­‐Fx and
General use IA switches. To change the setting for a given switch:
1. Press EDIT footswitch to enter EDIT MODE.
2. Press SETUP footswitch to select the SETUP menu.
3. Press PAGE" footswitch 8x to get to the IA Switch Type screen:
4. Press the INCR or DECR footswitch to select an IA Switch number.
5. Press PARAMETER" to move the cursor to the Switch Type field.
6. Press the INCR or DECR footswitch to select a switch type from the list.
Press EXIT to return to PERFORMANCE MODE.
7.
! WHICH SWITCH IS WHICH? You will typically want to use Toggle (the default setting, which behaves like a traditional stomp
box) unless you have some reason to operate an effect or parameter with a Momentary type switch. The Auto-­‐Off type is called
for only in cases best understood only by MIDI nerds and is unsuitable for most Axe-­‐Fx applications.
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