Boss DD200 cc and CTRL control

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Hi all, looking for some slightly more advanced help with the Boss DD-200.

I have all my presets set and and working great, however I would love to incorporate a few of the more advanced functions (freeze, warp etc.)

Looking through the manual, you can set each CTRL 1 & CTRL 2 to perform one of these functions (for an external footswitch), but it seems that you can also control these via the CTRL 1 and CTRL 2 cc#. This is where I’m struggling.

Let’s say I’ve set CTRL 1 to the warp function, and the cc# is 81 (just for example). The warp effect would normally activate whilst the external footswitch is held down and bypass when I let go. How can I program a footswitch on the mc6 to activate the warp effect when I hold it down? I assumed I would send a cc81 value of 1-64 on press, then 65-127 on release (also tried the opposite way round), but no dice. Any suggestions or advice from someone who has been successful with this?

Thanks in advance

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SOLVED!

Looked around on some of the other forum topics here and was able to find the answer - for anyone who may be interested:
The Boss CC#'s for CTRL 1&2 require absolute values(127 to engage, 0 to disengage). So in my case i wanted CTRL 1 to activate the ‘warp’ function.
So
MSG1 - Press action, CC# 80 (CTRL1), CC value 127 to the dd200
MSG2 - Release action, CC# 80, CC value 0 to the dd200.

Meaning that when i step on the footswitch on my mc6, i get the warp feature, and when i release, it disengages.

Turns out it was super easy and i was just being slow!

Thanks to all the other posts here for helping me out!

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