The controls you will actually use
The handful that account for nearly everything you will do, plus the gestures nothing on the chassis mentions.
04 · 6 min
Footswitches: three, multiplied by switchable layouts. Learn how to store a preset before you learn anything else — the edited indicator does not prompt you.
Click anything
Every control on the FM3, and what each press, hold and turn does.
FM3 · Top panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
The three footswitches
Three switches with colour displays above them, reassigned wholesale by the current layout.
Worth knowingThree switches sounds limiting and mostly is not, because layouts multiply them. It is the layout you are in, not the switch count, that decides what you can reach.
Store, or lose it
Changing anything lights an edited indicator. Change preset with that lit and your work is gone — there is no confirmation and no undo.
Press STORE. It is the same discipline every modeller needs and this one gives you the least warning.
Get into the habit on day one. Losing an afternoon's work to a preset change is a rite of passage nobody needs.
FM3 Owner's Manual