How easy Is editing?

The touchscreen offers the quickest and most intuitive onboard editing functionality that we’ve seen in a unit of this type, making it dead easy to edit a rig or create one from scratch. You can simply swipe an object (pedal, amp or cab) to change its position in the signal chain. A tap on one of them will bring up three major parameters to edit with the three adjacent soft knobs – touch anywhere in the parameter box to bring up the next set of three parameters – while a double-tap opens a dedicated screen for that object, including the option of changing its LED colour coding. When you load or change a particular pedal, you also get a useful choice of instant preset options for its actual sound/settings. There’s also an encoder to move through selectable items onscreen or to adjust parameters.

Of course, during a gig situation you may not want to be on your knees messing with the touchscreen, encoder or knobs, so there’s also a Hands-Free Mode whereby you hold the footswitch assigned to the model that you want to adjust, which brings up a set of parameters on the top footswitches that can be selected and adjusted using the expression pedal. And while you can save presets to a computer, there’s no dedicated software editor.