FM3 Navigation and Editing From the Front Panel
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2020
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Extremely helpful video 3 years later!! Thank you Greg!
Most helpful video I've seen on the FM3. Thanks!
This is a gem! Really helpful! Thank you!
Super !
Many thanks.
Phil.
Excellent ! Thank you!
Excellent tutorial. Thank you! These FM3s are stunningly good.
Glad you like them!
Really Really helpful and some great tips!! Thanks bro 👍🏻
Thanks… great tutorial!
Wow thank you for posting this.
You’re welcome ;-)
Thank you! it,s really helpful!!
Brilliant stuff, thanks for posting this up. Really helps editing live at rehearsal/soundcheck!
Believe it or not, it helped me to make it! It’s how I learn this stuff ;-)
Thank you for your video, it was very helpful to me
this is FANTASTIC! Thank you very much for helping us out
You’re welcome!
Greg, thank you very much. For someone new to this gadget your lesson is a great help. Best regards.
Glad I could help ;-)
Thanks for the helpful video
You are welcome!
That was awesome. One of the best tutorials I’ve seen. Thanks! Still debating between this and the Quad Coretex.
The quad cortex is nice and small and the UI is attractive. One of our guys at church plays through one. The switches are a bit close together and the platform is still reaching maturity as well as no editor but some of those are fixable. He gets some nice tones out of it for sure. The fractal interface has its issues but the platform is certainly mature. The modeling and effects are top notch. You just have to figure out what works best for you and the presets you will be building (how complex). The fm3 is capable but depending on ambient type effects you like to run, these can hog cpu. I don’t have any experience with the QC though. Thanks for watching!
Great video, I'm waiting for my FM3 to be delivered. Coming from a line 6 pod hd500x I knew there would be a huge learning curve. This video makes me feel more comfortable with learning a new modeler. Thanks!
You’re going to love it. Dig in and start making some presets!
I'm looking to get an FM3 and this was very helpful. Much appreciated!
Awesome, glad you found it helpful. I think it's really important to know your way around the unit without FM3 edit. It's come in really handy for live use.
Thanks, just received my fm3 two days ago and this navigation vid gives me a good place to get my feet wet being new to this.
Thanks for watching! Enjoy the FM3!
thank you very much. very helpful for me
Thank you for this, very helpful
Great to hear!
Thanks greg,,,great tips for the FM3,,,just got it a week ago,,,and its awesome,,,,little bit of a learning curve,,,went threw all of the factory presets first. ...Thanks again- Ron B.
Good to see this helped. Definitely a must for those that plan to play out and won’t have the editor on hand. Putting together this tutorial helped me as well ;-)
Super helpful Greg. I've been avoiding playing with this thing and relying on my AX8 because of the learning curve and lack of understanding the easiest way to edit on the fly. This was extremely helpful. Thank for your time!
Great to hear!
Great job again brother!
Cool, thanks
Never knew the edit scroll tip! Thanks!
This is a great video. Thank you.
Very welcome!
Hello Greg new subscriber here I'm waiting for my fm3 in the mail and doing some studying on navigation this video was absolutely priceless there's no one else that explains things quite the way you do.. I can't wait to take delivery of my fm3 all I can do is sit here and watch videos kind of torturous hahaha
thank you again for making this video! 👍👍
Thanks for the compliments! Yea I do the same thing when waiting for gear. It’s good that you are taking it all in and setting yourself up for success. Making this video helped me out too. The interface is a step up from the ax8 and older fractal gear but still not self explanatory
Super helpful video.
Great to hear!!
Great video Greg!
Thank you sir!
Good stuff 🍻
Great video as always 🎸🎸🎸
Thank you very much!
“youre probably not even watching this part.” Literally as I’m on my iPhone checking email.
Solid video tho! Gonna be watching your other stuff on the FM3 after buying one this week. Hoping I don’t regret going digital but so far I’ve got some insanely nice tones just messing around.
Thank you! There’s room for both digital and traditional stuff. I find that the modelers make me want to buy some of the real amps.
Thankyou
Great voice. Keeps me Watching even though I no haz a Fractal and no will haz a Fractal. BUT, you have a GREAT teaching style, pacing and exposition! Sub'd. Best Regards!
Thanks! Very kind of you. ;-) Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment
Very helpful thank you - having an issue with keeping level up when engaging with any delay (without changing the other setting) big drop in volume- everything I try changes the way the delay sounds
Nice video bro 👍
Brian Burton thanks!!
Cool video bro
Thank you!
This was great thank you!!! Hoping to enjoy the fm9 better than the Helix.
I think you will get much enjoyment out of the fractal. Once you get your head wrapped around the interface, you will be able to work better with it. The helix interface is great for sure but I personally like the modeling much better on the fractal products. Both are great though.
Dear Greg your videos are so meaningful and concise to the point. So happy to found you. To say only I have recieved my FM3, how would you setup a backing track for practise along.
easiest way would be to use the looper. You can access this layout by holding the middle button and scrolling over to the looper layout. From there you can start and step through the recording start, stop, etc functions. I recommend using the metronome feature when recording. It can be accessed through the Tempo page of the Controllers menu. To enable the metronome press the Tempo button
and adjust the level for the desired output(s). If you already have a backing track you want to use, you can just use the FM3 as an interface and play audio through it and adjust volume in your playback track (on the computer). The FM3 manual has a ton of good info so make sure you download and reference that. If you use the FM3 as an interface and are on windows, make sure you have the driver installed.
@@GregSummersMusic thankyou for the reply. I will look forward to it.
Thanks for the great tutorial. My question is how noisy it is on a high gain and how good are noise depressors handling it? Thanks!
It behaves like a normal amp so there can be noise on high gain sounds. There is a built in gate at the input block that you can adjust to taste and you can also add a separate noise gate block as well.
I put a hotone mp100n threw the pa desk and sounds terrible. But of cause threw the valve amp sounds great. How do these things sound
Hello, excellent video. I would like to know which menu pages (tabs) opens when you press the edit button. The last tab used in the block or you can configure which one will open when pressing the edit button?.
You can't configure (that I know of) which one will open every time. It always starts with the input block after the unit powers on, but it will open the last block (even if you switch presets) you were editing if you change it. This behavior will reset back to the input block after power cycling the unit though.
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So what computer programer cause do we need to enter
Hi Greg new subscriber here! I have a newby question, when you want to download a preset from the Fractal website do you have to use the fractal bot to upload it to the fm3?
Nope. Fractalbot is good for bulk preset banks (like loading the factory ones), firmware updates, and backing up the unit. You can just go into axe edit and go to manage presets and drag them in or on the file menu you can import a single preset.
Thank you very much sir!!! Now I can’t wait to get home from work to use this info!!!!
Have fun! It’s an awesome little unit
Thanks. Just got an FM3 a few days ago. Not thrilled with the device navigation but love the tones.
On the device, how can I quickly jump from one preset to a distant preset, say from number 7 to 286?
I don’t know of a way to do that unfortunately. You can get into the list of presets and then page over but not really quickly jump to a distant preset.
@@GregSummersMusic Thank you sir. Appreciate the response. I enjoy your vids. Take care.
Thank you so much for this. Whomever designed the AxeFX/FM3 did not take user experience into account.
Yea, understood. At least it’s light years ahead of the AX8 interface. Be thankful you didn’t have to use that (or maybe you did). From that perspective it’s a huge improvement but if you are comparing to helix interface, that’s tough. Line 6 got that right for sure.
Hey Greg, how about showing us how to get a good "Mutron" preset...ala Jerry Garcia? Can't get it to sound good...
Hey there. That’s somewhat out of my regular listening so I’d have to research that one. Typically I like to figure out what they use live and in the studio and go from there. Doesn’t always come out like I like but that’s where I start first, then I build from there.
I had my fm3 for more than a month before using fm3 edit. Best advice I’ve gotten was to learn on the unit not fm3 edit to begin with.
C G yes for sure!!!
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What is the difference between running the delay and reverb parallel vs running it in the same line ??
Running them in line is called in series. Whatever is in front off the other will run into it. Example: if the delay is before the reverb, then reverb will be added to the delay repeats. Running parallel makes things cleaner sounded but this is just a preference and depends on what sound you are going for. Try both ways out.
Fractal sounds really good but I think they are by far the most difficult to run. It wouldn’t have cost that much to make it a little more user-friendly.
It’s just different ways of thinking on the engineers side. Not that I agree. The editor is by far the best in my opinion.
What about the "shunt" in the box which is parallel to the Reverb and Delay Box ? In the real electric world it will be a short circuit for the signal. In the FM 3 world it seems not !
I haven’t watched this video since I completed it. In FM3 edit there usually isn’t a shunt. Not sure if I demoed it after I did that on the unit. I may have just made a mistake in the video.
you're doing this to quickly 😀
Thanks for this tutorial. I have a question though. When i adjust the level of a scene, and then click out of that scene and back into it, the original level is restored. How do you make it permanent?
you have to go on the floorboard, press store, and press enter twice and it should save
Holy Shit ! this fractal effects stuff is far more difficult and time consuming then mastering the guitar it's self. Call me "Old School" but... gimme a Strat, a Fender Supersonic 60 with a 4x12" cabinet. Done...
I hear you. It’s easy to over complicate it though and the benefits for a lot of people outweigh the drawbacks. I love my amps as well but my back and the Places I play really don’t. But every situation for people is different.
I followed all the way through and do not have signal. What am I doing wrong?
I probably need more info to help you. Are you know getting any sound at all out of your FM3?
@@GregSummersMusic so I’ve got sound now, but I can’t figure out how to get a overdrive sound. It’s just only clean, and I can’t figure out how to get out of the edit screen to actually use the pedals etc. o like this thing, but it’s becoming more headache then it seems with lol.
It’s always a good idea to reference the manual as well. Learn some basic concepts about the fractal. Cables, shunts, recommended setups, etc. go through some of the factory presets and see how they are laying theirs out. I’m not a huge fan of factory presets but they are a good start. From there install FM3 edit on a computer and see things from that perspective. My video is meant to get people that are familiar with the unit, running FM3 edit and stuck using that always, and then getting to a gig and have no understanding of how to tweak and adjust anything from the front panel. There’s just not enough time for me to have an all in one video and truthfully, most people won’t watch or pay attention long enough to get everything in one video. You are an exception to the rule…and thank you. If you advance over to a block you can turn the dial, pick the block you want and press enter then move to the next area.
@@GregSummersMusic I appreciate your time. I just got the unit yesterday and don’t have my computer for a while. I was just trying to set up a basic clean, gain, reverb, and maybe some wah to try and have a little fun from the unit itself. It’s proving challenging, but I’m sure there’s a way. Hey one last question, is there a way to play songs from my I hope through the unit so I can jam along with them?
Also can’t figure out how to use my expression pedal. I can’t figure how to select it from the unit itself. You don’t need to figure it out for me. I was just saying. I’ll keep researching.
I think there’s a typo there so I’m not sure of the exact question but you can play through anything that is connected to the USB port so if you have your laptop, iPad, etc attached, you can play that and play along with it. For the other part, yes, the interface can be challenging but just slow the video down, get your basic cable there with in and out block then fill in the middle with a drive, amp, cab, delay and/or reverb, chorus, etc and then work on each block to adjust the parameters based on the video. It’s been a while since I’ve done this video so I can’t remember how I exactly laid it all out.
Good Video, you avail for skype lessons? re Fm3
Not on a regular basis but I’ve connected with a few folks in the forums and groups to help them get going. Depends on what you are looking to accomplish. Sometimes doesn’t translate well over Skype.