What about the MIDI MOOSE by Tech 21? - Looks like you can save rigs on each footswitch. Not sure if you can use those buttons to change stomps on an off though? Does anyone know?
Cheap, small controller?
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skyhighrocks -
January 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM -
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What about the MIDI MOOSE by Tech 21? - Looks like you can save rigs on each footswitch. Not sure if you can use those buttons to change stomps on an off though? Does anyone know?
I think it only does program changes, so no stomp switching. -
Thanks - how can you tell what controllers do stomp switching? Is it some midi protocol?
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Thanks - how can you tell what controllers do stomp switching? Is it some midi protocol?
The specifications / feature descipions usually say so.
Cheaper and smaller controllers often only transmit PC. -
Stomp switching is usually done with MIDI CC numbers.
The controller would need to be able to send user selectable MIDI CC's to change the status of the stomps.
And, if you want to be able to see the on/off status on the MIDIcontroller, you would have to program that for each MIDI program change you are controlling
It can get complicated, and very time consuming to do the programming. The money you save on a cheap controller will cost you extra time.
If you are just using a temporary controller, I suggest JUST changing programs, and having enough of them to give you all your stomp choices.
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Stomp switching is usually done with MIDI CC numbers.
The controller would need to be able to send user selectable MIDI CC's to change the status of the stomps.
And, if you want to be able to see the on/off status on the MIDIcontroller, you would have to program that for each MIDI program change you are controlling
It can get complicated, and very time consuming to do the programming. The money you save on a cheap controller will cost you extra time.
If you are just using a temporary controller, I suggest JUST changing programs, and having enough of them to give you all your stomp choices.
Thanks Paul - so to be clear - something like the MIDI Moose I could use in performance mode to switch between 5 different 'rigs' but to actually switch stomps I could save 5 variations of the same rig as different rigs but with different FX on and off?
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Yes! It is just a matter if deciding how you want to organize it.
You could (for example):
- add the same rig to slots 1-5 of a performance.
- make different combinations of effects active in each of the five slots.Done:)
if this was Performance Bank One, the rigs would be MIDI PC numbers 1 through 5. Bank two would be PC 6 through 10 , etc.
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