Hi there,
Absolutely loving the new Multi-Engage/Bypass feature, this is drastically simplifying my presets.
I’d be really stoked if the Multi-Engage/Bypass feature could support effects pedals that have multiple effects that need to be bypassed, such as the Source Audio Collider, which has no single CC message to bypass the full pedal. It acts as a two-in-one pedal, so there is one CC to bypass the reverb, and a separate CC to bypass the delay. I can get around this by configuring a new midi channel with the needed CC and re-mapping it to the same channel as the Collider, but I am out of channels so I have to do one of them the old-fashioned way.
There is a similar limitation for effects loop switchers. I have a mixture of midi and non-midi pedals in my board, and all of them are wired into a true bypass FX loop switcher that requires a different CC to toggle each effect loop.
So let’s say my FX loop switcher is on Channel 1, and my MIDI compatible pedal is on Channel 2. I can configure Channel 2 in controller settings to use the pedal’s own internal bypass, but if I want to bypass is using the FX loop switcher, I need to go to an unused MIDI channel, re-map it to channel 1, and then configure the Bypass with the CC messages that my FX loop switcher is expecting.
Because my loop switcher has 8 FX loops, I have to treat it like 8 different devices remapped onto 1 channel. This also means that the re-mapped midi channels might accidentally receive MIDI messages that were not intended for that device.
This feature would absolutely shine (at least in my use-case) if I could go into a single Midi channel in Controller Settings and designate an arbitrary number of Engage/Bypass messages for that channel, and assign them names so that they are easy to parse when I’m setting up the multi-engage message in my preset.
I know I’m asking a lot and this feature might not be for everyone. I absolutely love the Multi-Engage function and I think it is a huge step in the right direction.