LINE 6 POD xt [28/82] Editing and saving fbv presets with no connected fbv device

FBV MkII Advanced User Guide: FBV Control Application

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• In the above directories you will ﬁnd the “factory” FBV Presets we’ve included (e.g. - “FBV-

Default.fbv”). Simply select one of these ﬁles and click open.

• This will load the FBV Preset into the FBV Control application’s GUI and automatically load it

into the internal memory of your FBV MkII device.

Note that your FBV Shortboard/Express MkII device holds one complete FBV preset at a time. When

opening a new preset ﬁle as described in these steps, it will REPLACE all the USB MIDI Control

assignments in your FBV device’s internal memory with those from the newly opened .fbv preset ﬁle.

Before opening a new preset ﬁle, you may want to Save the current settings as an FBV preset to your

computer if you want to be able to recall these settings again later.

Saving an FBV Preset

While working in the Line 6 FBV Control application, you can Save all the current settings within the

Control application’s GUI as an FBV preset ﬁle to your computer’s hard drive at any time. It is a good

idea to do so whenever you have a set of commands you don’t want to forget so you can load them into

your FBV device later on (remember the mantra - “Save early and Save often!”).

FBV Control follows the typical Mac

and Windows

software conventions:

• To Save the changes made to the current FBV Preset, overwriting the previous settings of this

ﬁle, choose File > Save from the application’s menu.

• To Save a the changes made to the current FBV Preset as a new FBV Preset ﬁle, choose File >

Save As from the application’s menu. You’ll then be prompted to name the ﬁle, and where to

save it. To keep your FBV Preset ﬁles tidy and easy to ﬁnd, you probably want to always save them

in the directory where we already stored the factory presets during installation:

• Documents/Line 6/FBV (Mac

)

• My Documents\Line 6\FBV (Windows

)

TIP: You’ll see the name of your currently loaded preset appear with an asterisk following its title (e.g. -

“FBV-Default.fbv*”) at the top of the application window whenever the preset is in an “unsaved” state.

Editing and Saving FBV Presets with No Connected FBV Device

As mentioned above, you actually do not need to have your FBV Shortboard/Express MkII device

USB-connected to run the Line 6 FBV Control application to edit or save preset ﬁles. You can still use

the above steps to Open, Save or Save As FBV Presets on your computer. You might ﬁnd this handy if

you just want to do some edits or look over the settings of the FBV Preset ﬁles stored on your computer

without also loading the Preset into your FBV device’s internal memory. To load any of these presets

into the internal memory of your FBV MkII device, you’ll need to connect it to your computer’s USB

port, and then open a saved FBV Preset as described above to have it auto-load into your FBV device’s

memory.

When you launch the Line 6 FBV Control application without an FBV MkII device connected, you

will need to instruct the application what type of device model format (Shortboard or Express MkII)

to work in. This provides the perfect segue to the next section, where we’ll look at these options in the

application Preferences.