Same for me. I’d like to use insert mode but the latency is too much in what I would consider a typical pedalboard layout so I resort to dual mode with relay bypass. Typical signal chain
guitar > H90 path 1 (eq, pitch, mod) > drives > H90 path 2 (delay, verb, mod) > amp (or in my case big sky > looper > amp)
becuase I pretty much always want my drive pedals active, in insert mode I always have to keep the insert active. I also don’t use an effect in front of them very often. For this case, dual mode works better, as with relay bypass you can put H90 A/B after your drive section and turn off path 1 completely with the relay bypass removing the 3.8 ms latency. With insert mode you’d always have the A/D conversion plus latency. dual mode gives you either 3.8 or 4.5ms total latency with both A/B in path 2 after your drives and path 1 relay bypassed (typical for me). The same config in Insert mode would always have almost double the latency unless you wanted to disable the insert and bypass your drive pedals.
my gripe is that most users on patch storage use insert mode and to import their programs I have to change the entire pedal to insert mode, import the program, make note of the two algorithms, switch back to dual mode and then recreate the program myself.
@eventide. Is there not a way dual mode users could import insert programs without having to go through all of this? I understand that the paths are different but could the insert program not be converted to dual by just removing the insert locations and placing the A/B algorithms in series/parallel like the insert program. I could decide if I want them on path 1 or two myself and it wouldn’t be excatly the same but at least I wouldn’t have to reconfigure the whole pedal to do so.
