Indeed, there are a number of “thoughtless” quirks on this box. But it also has some great features and sounds fantastic, so there are tradeoffs. I have the “18” and being able to use this type of box without a computer is incredible and being able to record multitrack to an SD card is as well. The preamps and FX sound really good and it’s plenty functional.
If you haven’t run across it.. One of the other quirks is that if you turn a fader that goes to the Mail L/R all the way down, you will lose all FX to the other outputs. You still get volume level and other things to the other outputs, but your FX will all disappear on those outputs. Took me a while, and a support ticket, to figure out why I wasn’t getting any FX to outs 1-6, turned out the reason was I had the fader to the Main L/R turned all the way down. Weird routing decision.