Scenes; Overview - Fractal Audio FX8 Owner's Manual

7 : SCENES

OVERVIEW

Each of the 128 presets of the FX8 preset contains eight scenes. You don't need to create them—they're
already there, ready and waiting to be used. We like to think of a scene as something like a "preset within
a preset. " Scenes aren't full presets though, they only control which effects are on, which effects are off,
whether each effect is set to X or Y, and a few other settings.
The benefits of scenes are enormous. Selecting a scene allows you to recall with one tap what would otherwise
require "tap dancing" on the footswitches. Scenes load instantly, they can easily be gapless/seamless, and
they offer the easiest way to ensure perfect "spillover" of delay and reverb. That's just the beginning... Scenes
are incredibly powerful and may become one of your favorite aspects of the FX8.
WHAT SCENES INCLUDE...
Each scene stores all of the following:
1 . The ON/OFF state of every effect in the current preset
2 . The X/Y state of every effect in the current preset
3 . The state of each relay (unless it has been assigned to a footswitch)
4 . The settings for OUTPUT LEVEL PRE and OUTPUT LEVEL POST. This is
5 . The setting for two virtual "Scene Controller" knobs, which can
6 . One MIDI Program Change message (on any channel), sent to the
WHAT SCENES DO NOT INCLUDE...
In short? Everything else. A scene ONLY contain the items listed above. If you change anything that is not part
of the scene, the change will affect ALL scenes in the preset.
You cannot change which effects are placed in which slots, or tweak effect parameters per scene. You cannot
change the pre/post setting, series/parallel settings, or noise gate settings per scene. You cannot change the
preset NAME per scene. Scenes do not have names.
WHY NOT JUST CHANGE PRESETS?
flexibility. You can change anything and everything in every preset, but there are also
drawbacks. Synchronizing multiple presets is tedious, it takes care to get levels and spillover just right,
and while preset changes are fast, scene changes are even faster and can be seamless.
useful for creating a BOOST, or to normalize the level across scenes
in turn be assigned to control sound parameters. (See
Controllers" on page 53).
MIDI OUT port of the FX8 when the scene is loaded.
Preset changes give you total
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