I’m looking at the awesome synth mode of the Chase Bliss Mood MkII and wondering if there’s a way to send a sequence of MIDI Note On/Off commands from the MC6 Pro.
I think (though I could be wrong) that the awesome CC Sequence Generators currently only send CC messages. I suspect it would be a pretty straightforward feature enhancement to add Note On support to the Sequence Generators, though you’d need some sort of additional mechanism for sending the related Note Off massages, e.g. “after a preset delay” or “before sending the next Note On”. And then TA DA! The MC6 would be a full on 16 step MIDI sequencer.
[By the way, it would be very cool if the Sequence Generator had a mode to advance to the next event when triggered. So, for example, you could step through a sequence of Note Ons or CC values via Press actions. So a manually advanced sequence.]
I can honestly get most of what I want to do here by setting up a bank where each button sends a Note On (plus an all notes off) - six pitches is plenty for my application. That said, being able to loop a sixteen-note sequence synced to the clock to animate the Mood MkII shifting would be very very cool.
Am i missing another way to do this? Are Note On messages in the works for the Sequence Generators? Thanks! And…many thanks for the MC6 one of the greatest pieces of gear I own!
I know that the simplest solution would be that feature being implemented, but in general, I’ve found that having some MIDI translator/filter utilities around has been SO useful working across different devices. The cheapest one is probably CME’s H2MIDI, and it’s been a lifesaver in setups where my Zoia is not hooked up.
There is already a midi converter on the mc6 pro though, right ? What would be the benefit if the standalone midi converter device ?
Maybe a can think of limitations of the onboard converter : seems limited to 16 conversions only. It means that programming a 16-steps sequence of chords would be impossible. 16 -steps single notes is ok i guess. But ive never tried the MC6 pro midi converter function. If anyone has, i d be interested to know their experience.
Yeah, the onboard midi converter is only for 16 discrete messages, and it doesn’t do ranges, so you couldn’t, for example, convert all note-on events on channel 1 into a range of CCs, or vice versa.
I don’t think there’s been any movement on this particular feature, so I still believe passing through a MIDI filter like the H2MIDI / H4MIDI is the most viable, stable, and quick solution.