sread
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Hey Tim, I've gone back and forth with Matt at Strymon and found some insight on your problem. Have you by chance in Nixie used one of the Factory Preset Collection presets to build a preset and then sync to your Strymon Device?
What I'm hearing a common bug is with the Beta software(and firmware for that matter) is that when you use one of the Factory Preset Collection presets and you write it to your pedal, the preset writes over the "factory bank" of presets rather than the "user bank" of presets...
Thought I would share the insight from Matt the Strymon tech with you all --
"Basically, the pedal needs to store all of the factory defaults on-board. That way, when the user resets their pedal, it is able to restore all of the original presets that came on the pedal. These are stored in a backup I have been calling the "factory bank." The "user bank" consists of everything you actually see on the pedal when you use it, and when you save changes, it saves those changes to the user bank, but never the factory bank. That way, if something goes wrong, it is easy to just wipe it all out and start fresh from factory.
In Nixie, user presets have a specific byte of data that specifies if it saves to the user or the factory bank. Obviously, this should only ever be saved to the user bank. We uncovered a bug, however, where all of the "Factory Preset Collection" presets all have the byte to save to the factory bank instead. This was causing issues where people would take these as a starting point and edit them. Then, when they write to the pedal, it writes to the factory bank and the change disappears because the user bank is what gets displayed. The fix was to write all the changes you want and then perform a factory reset, as then it would copy the factory bank (which has all of your changes) to the user bank, so you can actually access them." ---
This might be why you cannot see the the changes you make on your pedal that you write from Nixie, because they are actually writing to the factory bank.
I unfortunately had to go back to previous firmware versions because the beta was having trouble keeping the kill-dry feature on after the unit is power cycled which is VERY important when you are using a parallel path like many PBC users do.
It sounds like they are working hard at creating a stable version of firmware for the units as well as a full 1.0 version of Nixie. This might not might get you to a solution but I wanted to share with all of you what information I've been able to gather thus far for those having issues. Will let you know if I hear anything else or somehow come up with a workaround.
