Importing Patches Into Tone Studio

Guitars, Amps & Effects Boss Katana
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In this lesson I take you through how to import a patch into the Boss Tone Studio software and into your amp!


View the full lesson at Importing Patches Into Tone Studio | JustinGuitar

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Hey can someone please help? Before I even get to anything outlined in this video it wants me to download the software but doesn’t specify the name of such software or where it is. It’s a minefield of stuff on the boss page and the only thing i can find relevant to my amp is the software download for my amp which I’ve done. I can’t launch tone studio on my computer because it says I need to download the software. Thanks heaps

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Which model do you have?

What type of PC? Windows or Mac?

Cheers,

Keith

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FYI - I have the BOSS Katana 50 Gen 3 and the procedure to import patches is different than what Justin describes in this video. Must be due to changes in the “Gen 3” model.

After clicking the ‘librarian’ button, there is a ‘download’ symbol button on the right. Click that and a window opens with the option to ‘import’ from either (what looks like) the amplifier, or (a sheet of paper symbol) file.

Click on that and my file explorer opened and I was able to find Justin’s .tsl patch that was downloaded.

From there the process is the same but you must also click the ‘editor’ button to drag the patch over to the slots on the left.

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I have katana gen 3. My problem with Justin patches is that all the effects are set to 0 (like knobs turned down), although other specific effects settings are imported. Therefore, i don’t know what the knobs values should be. Could anyone help…? Thanks!

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I don’t understand your question.

When you send a patch from tone studio to the amp, it doesn’t matter what the knobs on the amp panel are set to.

The settings from the downloaded patch override, whatever the knobs are set to. However, if the effect is enabled, the LED for that effect will come on, even if the knob is set to zero.

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Thanks for your response. What i meant is virtual knob values. On the gui you see the whole virtual amp and for example the reverb knob is turned down to 0.

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I’m still not really following you. I suggest you post a screenshot of the patch you are having trouble with.

Also, what type of computer are you using? Because the mobile version has a different gui than the desktop version.

Also also… I have found the Katana Librarian app to be much better than the Boss app, at least on my iPad.

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it looks like this:

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So, reverb, fx, mod are all off and i don’t know to what values i should set them up to get the intended sound

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OK, I understand now…I think!

I’m using an iPad, which has a different app, but I am seeing something similar. The LEDs are showing that the effect is on, but the knobs are showing 0 / OFF.

I also found this super confusing, and suspect it is a bug in the software, or possibly the amp’s firmware (I’m a rev behind on the firmware)

But I played around a bit, and noticed that the “EFFECT LEVEL” knob (bottom half of the screen) IS non-zero. In your example, it’s set to 53. This knob also gets updated when you turn the real knob on the amp’s panel.

So I think it is safe to assume that the amp settings are actually being set properly…it’s just that the knobs on the top of the screen are not showing this properly. But you should experiment and confirm if you think I’m right about this.

Hate to say it, but the quality of Boss’s software and documentation is really poor. It’s a shame, because the amp itself seems pretty good.

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Hey Tom,

Thanks again for your responses and help. Yes, you’re right, the effects are actually on after all. It’s all a bit confusing, coz for other patches it’s often the case that the “knobs” are active as well, but that depends on how exactly the patch is exported

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