Is there a way to do this?

Morningstar Gear MC6 Pro MIDI Controller
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Hello

I’m after a little help. I know how to do parts of this, but I can’t seem to work out how I do this in one piece.

I want, on a single footswitch, to be able to do the following:

  1. Single press - toggle on a pedal (on) via midi and engage a preset on the pedal (via midi)
  2. Double tap - engage a different midi preset on that pedal
  3. Long press - engage a different midi preset on that pedal
  4. Single press - toggle off the pedal switched on in (1)

I can do (1) and (4) and I can do (2) and (3)…

Is there any way to combine all (it’s the last point to toggle the pedal off that is causing me trouble).

Thanks in advance!

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Hi, welcome! Should be possible. The thing that’s required here is to get the actions working nicely together. This is a good guide, shows how the various action types interact together and which combos give unique presses, like you’re after here, I think… Action Type List

I suspect what’s happening here is your Press on (1) and (4) is also triggering the Long Press for (3).

Try changing your Press actions on (1) and (4) to Release instead. Assuming you’ve got your toggles set up correctly on (1) and (4) and you DON’T have toggles set on (2) and (3) that should do what you need I think!

FYI use of Double Tap means that the MC will take a tiny amount of time before it reacts to your Release and Long Press actions whilst it evaluates the type of tapping just received… I doubt it’ll be problematic, but something to be aware of.