Any ideas when the MC4 is likely to be released? I could do with one now 
Leave these hard working people alone. Lol. It’ll be ready when it’s ready. I swear this gets asked every other day. Q3… he said. That’s October-ish… There we go. Buy an MC3 in the meantime. 
Welcome @sixstringsensei. MC3 doesn’t get me where I need to go. It only has three switches and no dedicated midi in and out, like the MC4 will have and the Pirate Midi Bridge4 does. I would prefer to stay with Morningstar, too 
The dedicated MIDI in and out is the one big thing that I wish the MC3 had. Oh, and a second omniport. I NEED extra switches so it’s a bummer I lose my expression input when I add a switch. Don’t get me wrong, I’m waiting for an MC4 as well. I put my MC3 on a bass board and I’m happy with it there… but my Stomp XL is now waiting for that MC4.
So are you saying that in any newly released MC6Pros you’ve lowered the value, or has this been addressed in Firmware upgrades?
It’s a resistor value change on the circuit board, not software.
Thnaks James, Is it a modification I can do? I’m out of warranty anyway.
Isn’t June close enough to Q3 ? 
Any new conjectured MC8Pro release month or pre-order assumptions ? Thanks
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Wondering if there has been any thought given to implementing bidirectional midi jacks in the new devices? Standard midi makes use of 3 of the 5 pins of a typical 5-pin din plug, the other two could be used for bidirectional communication. I have a midi keyboard with a single bi-directional 5-pin jack. I had to build a Y-splitter (5 wire) cable to send midi to and receive midi from my Morningstar controllers. Just a thought.
Is this one of the new Korg MIDI 2.0 keyboards?
Yes, if you can solder 0805 resistors, you can replace the resistors values. Please drop us an email.
September is looking a little tight but we’ll do our best!
I’m not sure yet. It’s easy to link those pins together but there isn’t a standard or anything which is why we are hesitant.
Will firmware v3.13 be released before the MC8Pro?
No. It’s actually a midi bass guitar built by Rob O’Reilly. It has sensors in the frets rather than trying to convert audio to midi notes. I love it!
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Understood. The lack of standard for bidirectional is frustrating. In my case the 10 and 2 o’clock pins are midi out while the 4 and 8 o’clock pins are midi in.
Too early to say yet… but yes we’ll try to launch the MC8 PRO with the intended new features
Maybe we can just draw some traces with solderable jumpers so you can easily just short the 2 points with a dab of solder if you want 2 way MIDI. I’ll need to look around for products that have implemented this first.
I believe a drawback for this is a ground loop because both products will be grounded together via the MIDI cable sleeve. And also, it really depends on how the other MIDI device you are controlling is designed. If I am sending MIDI on pins 4&5 and receiving MIDI on pins 1&3, and the other device is designed the same way, then this will not work.
Do those new features include mc6-pro via firmware update? Or are they mc8-pro exclusive?
@james could you give us a link to a description of the new features to come in the 3.13 firmware update?
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Good points James! In fact, I had to convert a Disaster Area Y-cable to fit my need because they had the two input pins exactly reversed from the way the bidirectional midi controller was wired. The input plug was ungrounded to avoid a ground loop. Cheers.
Excellent request! Would like to know myself.
Hi folks
Currently own an FM3 MKII working with a Midi Maestro, I’m waiting for the MC8 Pro release to replace it. Any information to pre-order it ?
Thanks so much