New H90 user – H9 presets/banks/DAW routing

[mattlaurencemusic]

Hey guys, I just started working with the H90 and I’ve been really impressed by it so far. I’ve never used a digital FX unit on my board before so I’m still wrapping my head around everything. I do have some questions

#1) I downloaded a bunch of H9 presets that I’m interested in using from the Preset Sharing pages but when I go to import them in H90 control, they’re all grayed out and I can’t import them. I do notice that the presets I downloaded are all different files types (.tide, .h9, .h9z) and I exported a factory H90 preset and it was a .pgm90 file. I tried to change one of the .H9 files to PGM90 and that didn’t seem to work. Is there any way that I can still use these presets? It would be really awesome to still be able to use them and not have to build everything from scratch. There’s still a ton of presets

 

#2) I run my guitar amp with the FX loop so I’m planning on running the H90 in dual mode with IN/OUT 1 + 3, but I do record a lot as well and am wondering if there’s a way for me to use IN/OUT 2 + 4 as an effects processor for my DAW. I wanted to just use 2 + 4 so that way I’d still have one stereo channel for my DAW without having to unplug my guitar rig/routing for my pedalboard just to run outboard FX. Is there a playlist or something that I can make to toggle this routing back and forth? I thought this would be a no brainer but it seems channels 1/2 and 3/4 are usually stereo linked so I’m not sure if I’d be able to split them up in this way.

If I could work it out, it would be amazing to be able to use some of the H9000 presets from my H9, is there any way to tell if any of the presets on the the H90 came from the H9000?

 

#3) What’s the general use case for using the banks? I can see that it definitely saves on button pressing vs manually switching for each preset. But what’s the best way to organize them? Right now my presets are still kind of all over the place, would it be more useful to have a bank dedicated to an effect like “chorus” bank, etc?

#4) lastly, small thing – when my H90 is connected to H90 control, it shows an update button on the bottom left of the H90 block, I’ve already updated the firmware but the update button is still there. Is my update not taking or does the update button just always show? I have v1.9.10

 

Thank you so much, really looking forward to digging in more and getting some great sounds!

 

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Edit: I got the presets figured out, I saw that you can add H9 presets by downloading the H9 control. I created a new list with all the forum presets, exported it and then re-imported as a whole list into H90 control.

I set up an MXR Tap tempo as an Aux Switch 1 in the system control settings and it works perfect for all of my patches except for the ONE (and that preset is the one that I’m using the most as my “default”). Whenever I hit the aux switch, it’s automatically putting the Tap tempo to 500bpm, regardless of whatever beat I’m tapping. Do I have any settings wrong on this preset? I can’t seem to find what I messed up.

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[joecozzi]

#1) Glad you got it sorted out.

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

#2) I run my guitar amp with the FX loop so I’m planning on running the H90 in dual mode with IN/OUT 1 + 3, but I do record a lot as well and am wondering if there’s a way for me to use IN/OUT 2 + 4 as an effects processor for my DAW. I wanted to just use 2 + 4 so that way I’d still have one stereo channel for my DAW without having to unplug my guitar rig/routing for my pedalboard just to run outboard FX. Is there a playlist or something that I can make to toggle this routing back and forth? I thought this would be a no brainer but it seems channels 1/2 and 3/4 are usually stereo linked so I’m not sure if I’d be able to split them up in this way.

You are right, 1/2 and 3/4 are normally stereo linked, but some time ago we introduced a FORCE MONO option that can be found in the System Menu > I/O > Output Mode > FORCE Mono. I have not tried it, but if you will be running effects in mono primarily, you might be able to use 1+3 for your guitar rig and 2+4 for your DAW in mono. Try it and let us know!

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

If I could work it out, it would be amazing to be able to use some of the H9000 presets from my H9, is there any way to tell if any of the presets on the the H90 came from the H9000?

All the presets in the H90 can be found on the H9000 but currently they are not interchangeable.

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

#3) What’s the general use case for using the banks? I can see that it definitely saves on button pressing vs manually switching for each preset. But what’s the best way to organize them? Right now my presets are still kind of all over the place, would it be more useful to have a bank dedicated to an effect like “chorus” bank, etc?

Bank mode is there to make it easier to activate programs with one button press. It’s organized in sets of 3, so you may think about it like verse program, chorus program, solo, but there is nothing stopping you from organizing presets how you prefer. If you want to have a bank with all choruses or all reverbs, you can. But think of bank mode as sort of a built in MIDI controller, where with one button press you can activate an effect.

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

#4) lastly, small thing – when my H90 is connected to H90 control, it shows an update button on the bottom left of the H90 block, I’ve already updated the firmware but the update button is still there. Is my update not taking or does the update button just always show? I have v1.9.10

Is it on the left or the right of the H90 block; it should be on the right. That update icon is always there in case you ever need to see firmware options.

[mattlaurencemusic]

joecozzi wrote:

#1) Glad you got it sorted out.

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

#2) I run my guitar amp with the FX loop so I’m planning on running the H90 in dual mode with IN/OUT 1 + 3, but I do record a lot as well and am wondering if there’s a way for me to use IN/OUT 2 + 4 as an effects processor for my DAW. I wanted to just use 2 + 4 so that way I’d still have one stereo channel for my DAW without having to unplug my guitar rig/routing for my pedalboard just to run outboard FX. Is there a playlist or something that I can make to toggle this routing back and forth? I thought this would be a no brainer but it seems channels 1/2 and 3/4 are usually stereo linked so I’m not sure if I’d be able to split them up in this way.

You are right, 1/2 and 3/4 are normally stereo linked, but some time ago we introduced a FORCE MONO option that can be found in the System Menu > I/O > Output Mode > FORCE Mono. I have not tried it, but if you will be running effects in mono primarily, you might be able to use 1+3 for your guitar rig and 2+4 for your DAW in mono. Try it and let us know!

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

If I could work it out, it would be amazing to be able to use some of the H9000 presets from my H9, is there any way to tell if any of the presets on the the H90 came from the H9000?

All the presets in the H90 can be found on the H9000 but currently they are not interchangeable.

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

#3) What’s the general use case for using the banks? I can see that it definitely saves on button pressing vs manually switching for each preset. But what’s the best way to organize them? Right now my presets are still kind of all over the place, would it be more useful to have a bank dedicated to an effect like “chorus” bank, etc?

Bank mode is there to make it easier to activate programs with one button press. It’s organized in sets of 3, so you may think about it like verse program, chorus program, solo, but there is nothing stopping you from organizing presets how you prefer. If you want to have a bank with all choruses or all reverbs, you can. But think of bank mode as sort of a built in MIDI controller, where with one button press you can activate an effect.

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

#4) lastly, small thing – when my H90 is connected to H90 control, it shows an update button on the bottom left of the H90 block, I’ve already updated the firmware but the update button is still there. Is my update not taking or does the update button just always show? I have v1.9.10

Is it on the left or the right of the H90 block; it should be on the right. That update icon is always there in case you ever need to see firmware options.

 

Hey Joe, thanks for all the great info and jumping in on my questions!

I’ll definitely be giving the Force Mono a try sometime hopefully soon, thanks for pointing that out for me.

Ah okay I see. That’s part of the reason I went with the H90 instead of an H9, i figured aside from the updates/firmware/features, I would need the extra knobs to be able to get around regardless. Even so, I can see how having a separate footswitch for bank/up and down would be a lot faster than having to jump from whatever.

Oh okay, yup the update is on the right side of the block! Cool so I’ll leave it alone then.

 

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

I set up an MXR Tap tempo as an Aux Switch 1 in the system control settings and it works perfect for all of my patches except for the ONE (and that preset is the one that I’m using the most as my “default”). Whenever I hit the aux switch, it’s automatically putting the Tap tempo to 500bpm, regardless of whatever beat I’m tapping. Do I have any settings wrong on this preset? I can’t seem to find what I messed up.

 

Any ideas on this one Joe? The screenshot of the patch is above

[mattlaurencemusic]

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

mattlaurencemusic wrote:

I set up an MXR Tap tempo as an Aux Switch 1 in the system control settings and it works perfect for all of my patches except for the ONE (and that preset is the one that I’m using the most as my “default”). Whenever I hit the aux switch, it’s automatically putting the Tap tempo to 500bpm, regardless of whatever beat I’m tapping. Do I have any settings wrong on this preset? I can’t seem to find what I messed up.

Any ideas on this one Joe? The screenshot of the patch is above

Nevermind i got this figured out too. I couldn’t figure it out so I remade the patch and it seems fine now!

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