MC8 Pro probable bug: Long Press action plus a Release action

I’m programming my top right and bottom right switches to page up/down with Long Presses (because I find that hitting two switches at the same time is awkward and prone to accidental preset activation).

I found that my short Press actions were being triggered, so I checked the manual and found:

A Long Press action will also execute a Press action. Hence, if you want to execute 2 different actions with a Press and Long Press message, you should use a Release and Long Press message instead.

So I changed my Press actions to Release actions and found that, when I enter a page, the graphical state of the preset on the new page (corresponding to my page up/down switch) changes to Position 2, but the actual preset actions are not triggered.

Editor version: 1.3.12
MC8 Pro firmware: 3.13.2

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More info. This is happening when I do the Long Press to leave the page. (I checked by using B+C to toggle back to the original page.) The state of Preset D is changed, but none of Preset D’s actions are executed.

Can you share your preset settings so I can see how it is programmed?

Or you can just share with me the preset UUID so I load your settings:

Click on one of your Save history which will copy the preset UUID:

Hi @james. Let me know if you need anything else!

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Thanks, I understand the problem now. You can find more info here: How to toggle Preset with a specific action | Morningstar Engineering Helpdesk

Thanks. So “as designed”? (just checking)

Yup! It is as designed. If Preset Toggle is turned on, then the preset toggles with any action if a Msg is executed

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Verified “fixed”. I’m beginning to get a clearer picture of how all of this functions.

There are clearly a lot of Help Center MIDI Controllers How-to articles of which I wasn’t aware. I will read them!

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