HD500 Idiosyncracy

[DRS]

OK

I know how to use the HD500 and the editor. I've had mine for a year. I've read all the manuals and have all the latest upgrades. But I've noticed sometimes when you're adding FX and creating a patch, it doesn't save it till you power the HD500 on and off.

I was doing a Jimi rig and I got the plexi sounding perfect so I added a fuzzface and a vibe to the rig. They sounded pretty good for a modeller. I chose "save selected," making sure my patch was lit up and saved. I went to another patch to noodle, came back to my Jimi patch and the FF and Vibe didn't work. The editor said they were there, and being switched on and off, but no sound change. Powered the HD off and then back on, presto, 100% saved and working.
Anyone else?

[stratchamp57]

You have to press "save" on the unit as well....

[coderKen]

Originally Posted by stratchamp57

You have to press "save" on the unit as well....

Or, if you're using HDEdit, you need to send the selected patch to the unit (look in the upper left corner of the HDEdit screen).

[hitchface]

^^Yup. And don't get them mixed up. Perfected a few patches and sent stuff the wrong way.

D'oh!

[Pietro]

ALWAYS save ON the unit... I learned that the hard way over and over again.

[JackJordan]

Originally Posted by Pietro

ALWAYS save ON the unit... I learned that the hard way over and over again.

Amen!

All I ever do now is simply bend over at hit the save button twice on THE UNIT ITSELF. I can do it the other way succesfully as well, but this way is foolproof.

[DRS]

Thanks, I just assumed hitting "save selected" on the editor wrote it on the floorboard. Seems logical but I guess not.

[toneseek]

"save" button on the physical unit - the software save does not always save it

[meambobbo]

save selected in hd edit saves the patch as a file to your local computer. as mentioned it does not write it to the unit - that's what the sent to unit button does.

[shasha]

Originally Posted by Pietro

ALWAYS save ON the unit... I learned that the hard way over and over again.

Sorry, I had to laugh at this because I'm the same with the AxeFXII.

I don't know how the editor on the HD500 is, but I know that sometimes I'll get busy hands and do something on the front panel or hit a button on the foot controller and will forget that it doesn't reflect in the editor. So basically what's stored on the screen of the computer isn't exactly what your settings are on the unit itself. Hit save from the computer and it ruins your patch.

So it's kind of funny to see that saving from the front panel is a universally good idea.

[Tarkus]

I think most of these answers are incorrect.

If you're using edit and you create a patch with say, a UniVibe, and then send it to the HD, it saves to the HD immediately.

HOWEVER, if you're still using edit and you then turn the UV off, change patches in EDIT, and come back to the original patch, the UV will still be turned off. That's because you're calling up the last thing you had in EDIT, not what you have in the pod.

That's why when you turn the POD off/on, you get the saved patch back, because it re-populates EDIT with what was in the POD.