by alienpops » Sun Dec 20, 2020 10:41 pm
Loving the sound of AT5 and hoping to play around with it more today! The interface improvements are also welcome. Here are a few suggestions to refine for the next round:
There are a few places where the skeuomorphic approach adds unnecessary obstacles.
1. The power button on the tuner. Clicking on the tuner icon in the chain should just automatically turn it on. Having to click and then click again to turn on the power is an extra necessary step. And then clicking somewhere else in the interface should turn it off.
2. Related to the tuner: remember preference for basic or advance and save it globally. For me, I always want the advanced and never the basic.
3. When using a rack in the pedal section (or a pedal in the rack section), sticking them in a black box with cables coming out of them with an "edit" button creates an unnecessary step. It would be better to have access to the controls without having to click "edit" and then click again when done. If you wanted to keep as skeuomorphic approach, for the rack-as-pedal, put the full rack interface with controls and duct tape a "bypass" button with wires coming out of it. That would provide the necessary stomp bypass but allow easy editing. For the pedal-as-rack, you could shrink the pedal to fit in the width of a 500 rack space (or two for the wider pedals).
Another feature request is for the Live Mode section:
1. Add the ability to load a folder of presets into the 128 preset banks. Unless I am missing something, you have to add each one individually. I create and group my presets by folder and having the ability to easily load them into the banks would be a huge time saver.
2. Have the ability to save an entire bank of preset banks. I play in 3 bands and I would like to be able to have separate patch banks for each and load them in as needed.
3. Add drag and reorder ability to the Live Presets. For example, it loads 1-4 at one time. Have the ability to reorder them by dragging.
Miscellaneous suggestions:
1. Add a new piece of gear (pedal/box) that is just a simple "bypass" button. With the new signal routing options in AT5, you could have a whole separate signal chain that could be turned on or turned off this way. Maybe not as elegant as the "snapshots" option, but this would allow for some pretty cool elaborate setups that could be triggered by a single pedal.
2. Ability to save preset as favorite from the main interface (if that ability exists I haven't found it). Or key command?
3. I second micdim's suggestion from p. 2 "Double click Amps, Pedals, FX in the chain to turn then on or bypass them."