Reference

Specifications

Only the numbers that answer a question somebody actually has. A source on every line, and a note wherever the bare figure misleads.

Layout Grid

14 x 6, every slot and cable stereo

The same as the Axe-Fx III. The FM3's is 12 x 4.

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Amp and Cab pairs

Two per preset

The FM3 allows one.

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Scenes per preset

Eight

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Channels per block

Four — A, B, C, D

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Footswitches

Nine, with colour displays

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Layouts

Nine

Complete sets of footswitch functions you step between.

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External controllers

Up to two FC-6 or FC-12 over FASLINK II

Custom layouts required — the factory nine assume the FM9's own switches.

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Analog inputs

One instrument, two stereo line

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Analog outputs

Three stereo, Humbuster on the quarter-inch jacks

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Amp modelling

Cygnus

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Fractal do not publish physical dimensions for these devices in their manuals, so this guide states none. The panel drawings are proportioned to look right rather than measured against a published figure.

Checked against FM9 · Cygnus.