[quote="dave robinson"]
Getting back to the Katana and extra programming from the computer, I’m looking at setting up an external Tone Bender and Volume pedal, so that I can do a show with the eight choices that can be stored on the Katana pedal. That would make the Helix redundant, but whether or not it is doable remains to be seen, as I also need an acoustic option too. With the amount of stuff I need to cover, there is only room for one Shadows patch, so maybe the Hall & Collins may come into play at some point. I started this today so it’s all new.
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It's actually possible to have many more than 8 stage accessible sounds on the Katana, using the GA-FC foot controller like this...
Using, for example, using button 1 (and this works for every channel button), set up the basic sound you want using the software amp knobs, and write it to the 1 location. Now, on the foot controller, push Effects. All the lights are now out. On Tone Studio, click Effects, and for each of the software Effects buttons there are dropdowns. Let's get Dave his Tone Bender. Distortions and Boosts can be found in the dropdown associated with software button one. Scroll through the choices, select your weapon, click it and using its controls make it do what you want. When you are happy, write again to , location 1. You should now see FC button lit red on the floor controller. Switch it off... Then programme each of the FC buttons in turn with modulation, or reverbs, or delays. Do it one FC button at a time, writing it as above after each step then clcking the newly programmed FC button off. DON'T FORGET TO WRITE AFTER EACH STAGE!
(Note also that you can use FC buttons to switch in two different EQ pedals - Graphic and Parametric, so, if you wanted to, you could create a radically different sound within each channel.)
So, to use this in a stage context ... Provided that you wrote the patches as above, Switch on the amp, and select button 1 on the FC. You should hear your basic, dry, sound. Click FC Effects... no lights. But when you click each of your programmed FC buttons, their sounds are recalled... So that's 4 sounds per channel. 16 overall, and there's even a way of getting a 17th...
I hope this is clear... I found it hard to describe!