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Post subject: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:40 pm
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Hi, folks, newbie here. Just got my first Fender amp in 25 years, a Mustang III v2. (I still have the other, a Champ, vintage unknown). I am digging the software edit capability and the easy-to-read knobs and markings.

So... I see the Fuse software doesn't let you rearrange the order of patches, as far as I can tell.

What's the most efficient way to organize patches in the amp? I want to overwrite the first 20 presets with my favorite settings, to get it ready to jam with.

I'm using a Mac and I have Fuse Version 2.7.1.48.


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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:17 am
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I´d suggest using this little app i wrote:
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rearranging presets has been requested many times, but unfortunately you will fall on deaf ears. just my 2 cents.

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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:47 am
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SenorUke wrote:
rearranging presets has been requested many times, but unfortunately you will fall on deaf ears. just my 2 cents.


Sadly, he´s right on this.

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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:17 pm
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Muchos thankos, SeñorUke. I'm on Snow Leopard, too. I appreciate you sharing this.


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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:28 pm
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sabasgr68 wrote:
SenorUke wrote:
rearranging presets has been requested many times, but unfortunately you will fall on deaf ears. just my 2 cents.


Sadly, he´s right on this.

Actually no he's not right. You can easily rearrange the presets from within the FUSE interface. I do it all the time. Just load the preset on the amp, click SAVE and choose a different preset slot to save it into. Yes, it does overwrite the preset you save it over, but really ... how many people actively use 100 presets?

The feature that is not available (at this time) is using "drag & drop" to rearrange presets.

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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:50 am
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strings10927 wrote:
Actually no he's not right. You can easily rearrange the presets from within the FUSE interface

for you it may be "easy" that way, thats ok.

for others it´s a pain:

it takes at least 6 clicks to get a preset from the amp and restore it to another slot.
Add the clicks neccessary to select the desired slot.
Slot <#red> on the PP-mini takes another 23 clicks for instance, just cause slot selection works linear, not cycled i.e.,
which would sum up to 29 clicks for something you could do with just a tiny motion,
so yes, my point still stands, the usability is beyond anything I´d call a modern user interface.

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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:19 am
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I use SenorUke's program and it works quite well.

But there are times when I want to do a major reorganization of all the patches. I do this as has been suggested here by backing up the amp (I use a Floor, actually), renaming the files, and restoring the backup.

I created a little OpenOffice spreadsheet to do this. The spreadsheet isn't fully automated, and it is primitive. You have to copy the file names into it (easy enough) and when you are satisfied with the reorder, you have to copy the 'ren' commands to a batch file and run it (easy enough)

But in between you have a good overview of what is where, and where you want to put it, and since it is a spreadsheet you can add columns for whatever criteria you want to make the organization easier. Since I'm working on a spreadsheet, I can take my time and think

It just uses substr and concatenate formulas, for the most part.

I'm not putting this up as an amazing piece of must-have software; it's just one way to do it, and you just need to do a little basic spreadsheet programming.

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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:04 am
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SenorUke wrote:
it takes at least 6 clicks to get a preset from the amp and restore it to another slot.
Add the clicks neccessary to select the desired slot.
Slot <#red> on the PP-mini takes another 23 clicks for instance, just cause slot selection works linear, not cycled i.e.,
which would sum up to 29 clicks for something you could do with just a tiny motion,
so yes, my point still stands, the usability is beyond anything I´d call a modern user interface.


OK, now that I've gotten a chance to hook up my laptop to the amp (Mustang III) and fire up FUSE...

I'm on preset #00. I want to save the same preset to slot #99.

1. Click the SAVE button (under the preset name)
2. In the 'Choose Location' dialog box that pops up, click after the '0' in the 'Save To Position:' field
3. Type '99'
4. Click 'OK'

Maybe it's different for the other model amps? But for me, it takes 3 clicks.

EDIT: I can do it with NO CLICKS now that I think about it:

1. Press CTRL+S on your keyboard
2. Press the TAB key on your keyboard 3 times
3. Type '99'
4. Press TAB 3 more times, and then press ENTER on your keyboard

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Post subject: Re: Newbie here: how best to organize patches?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:17 am
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strings10927 wrote:
Maybe it's different for the other model amps?

Yes, unfortunately,
because I cannot type anything into the slot-id field (which in my case are letters, not numbers)!

For me it works exactly like I described it above in this half-baked Fender FUSE™ software. :(

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