Fractal AXE-FX III - Table of Contents

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION .....................1
Welcome to the Axe-Fx III .............. 1
Feature Summary .................... 2
The Setup menu ...................... 3
Quick Connect Guide .................. 4
Setting Levels ....................... 5
Humbuster™ Cables ................... 6
Mono vs. Stereo ..................... 6
The Home Page: Presets ............... 7
Intro to the Layout Grid ................8
Intro to Scenes and Channels ........... 9
Grid Editing: Quick start ............... 10
Block Editing: Quick start ............. 10
USB Overview ...................... 11
Fractal-Bot & Axe-Edit III ..............11
Connecting Pedals Directly ............ 12
Global Expression Pedal Setup ......... 13
Global Volume Pedal Setup ............13
2 HARDWARE OVERVIEW ..............15
The Front Panel .....................15
The Rear Panel ..................... 17
3 USB .............................19
Computer Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
USB Inputs and Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Mac OS X System Audio .............. 21
USB Re-Amping ..................... 22
4 SETTING UP .......................23
General Principles ................... 23
FRFR/Direct ........................24
FRFR monitor & FRFR to Front-of-House ..25
Power Amp & Guitar Speakers ..........26
Power Amp & Cab & FRFR/Direct .......27
Four-Cable Method (“4CM”) ........... 28
FX Processor only (“Post”) ............ 29
FX Processor only (“Pre”) ............. 30
Inserting Outboard Gear .............. 31
Multi I/O Setups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5 PRESETS .........................33
Overview .......................... 33
The Layout Grid ....................34
Working with Blocks ................. 34
Connector Cables ................... 36
Block Inventory .....................38
Example Preset Grids ................ 39
Editing Effect Blocks ................. 40
Saving Changes ..................... 41
Preset CPU Limits ................... 42
6 SCENES & CHANNELS ...............43
Overview .......................... 43
Changing Channels .................. 44
Setting Up Channels ................. 44
Selecting Scenes .................... 45
Setting Up Scenes .................. 45
Selecting Scenes & Channels Remotely .. 46
Program Change Mapping ............. 47
Sending MIDI with Scenes ............. 47
Scene levels ........................48
The Default Scene ................... 48
Scenes, Channels & Modiers .......... 48
Scene Revert .......................49
Scene Ignore ....................... 50