Good evening everyone… is there a setting in the MIDI Editor that I can set to get my MC6 Pro to change a preset color when it is selected? In other words, can I make it where selecting and deselecting changes color in background or words of a preset to let me know it’s selected or deselected?
Yes, the concept is called “Preset Toggle” as in, toggling between 2 positions called Position 1 (Pos 1) and Position 2 (Pos 2). More info about this here: https://manuals.morningstar.io/mc-midi-controller/Toggle-Switch-Mode-(send-different-MIDI-messages-with-each-alternate-press).369295377.html
Here’s an example:
This will toggle the strip between black and red each time to press the switch, and also send out the PC message on each press.
This will toggle the strip between black and red each time to press the switch, and also toggle between CC Value 0 and Value 127 on each press (note each message’s Position).
If you want only one preset to be toggled (or engaged) at any one time, such that when you press Switch B, Preset A reverts back to Black color, you’ll need to enable the “Clear Preset Toggle” setting in the Bank settings tab. What that does is that is will reset all the toggle positions of all the presets in the bank, except the last engaged preset.
More info here (though written using the blink concept used by the MC3/6/8 controllers): https://manuals.morningstar.io/mc-midi-controller/blink-only-the-last-engaged-preset
Excellent, it works. Thanks! I’ll have more questions later.
I have a followup question. I wish to use the same toggle between distortion and solo/boost. I think I want it set up that distortion is one one loop and distortion+effects is on another loop. Can one toggle be used to go between two loops?
The only other thing I could do is set it up with the toggle triggering bypass on the effects (TC Electronics Plethora X3) but I think the latency of the switch will be too much.
Is there a way to highlight a preset when engaged (e.g. switch A) and unhighlight it when I select a different preset (e.g. switch B)?
Hi,
yes that’s possible.
If you want to have this behavior for all presets, simply enable ‘clear preset toggles’ in bank settings.
If you only want specific presets to act like this, group them in a ‘toggle reset group’. Go to ‘toggle group’ (upper right of the edit preset tab) and scroll down the dropdown until you find ‘toggle reset group’ Add every preset you want to be toggled off by other presets to the same preset group.
If you want to toggle, e.g. preset A when engaging preset B, but not preset B when engaging preset A you can programm a ‘set toggle’ message type to preset B.
Thank you for the info—very helpful!