Hi,
I’m coming from a pedalboard with midi devices and some other pedals. The midis are 3 strymons and one tc nova drive. I’m also using a hx stomp on the side, which I plan to fully incorporate in the board as well. Then some traditional 6 drive pedals and a compressor. Also thinking of adding a source audio Eq2 to make it even more fun and complicated. For years I’ve been using this together with a musicomlab efx mk4. Robust piece of kit but a bit painful to manage presets etc so I’m looking for something more modern now. I was thinking of a mc8 pro and a ml10x. One thing with musicom is that once I’m in a preset at any time I can hit a switch to change into instant access mode, where I can turn on and off each loop, which is really useful for me. Once I exit instant access mode, I’m back into preset mode. Note that the midi stuff is not in the loops, I only use them for the drive pedals. Is this something easy to with the mc8 pro? Or would I need to have something a mc6 on the side just to be able to have “instant access” mode together with preset mode?
thanks for your help!
An “instant access” or “live” mode is easily programmed as a bank where each switch is set to control its own loop. As long as your ML10X presets are all using “simple mode” (serial loop order), then engaging/bypassing loops individually is very straightforward.
The one thing that gets complicated is that the MC8 or MC6 Pro doesn’t know what bypass state the ML10X’s loops are in, since the communication is uni-directional (MC => ML10X). The way most people keep them sync’d is to manually set the bypass states on both devices so that they start the same (e.g. load preset, set loops on the ML10X, set toggles on the MC8 to match).
Thanks. What about switching between the present bank and the instant access bank on the fly during a song, what would be the workflow?
You’d just program a jump to that bank, and that bank would also have a jump back. I often do have a bank like this for messing around, but I typically don’t use it to perform.
In performance, most users have each bank represent a song. When you call up that bank, it might call up an ML10X preset / signal chain. I’d have it do it automatically when I entered the bank, so that action wouldn’t even use any footswitches. Then, if I knew I wanted to be able to toggle two drives, a chorus, and a delay in that song, for example, I’d just set up switches within that bank for those functions. Other switches might be used to toggle the EQ2 between two settings, switch between two reverb presets, jump to the “live mode bank”, etc.
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I do exactly this (but with a ML5R). I use a dedicated button (or you could use a special action like a long press on a specific button) that takes me to a “stomp box” bank where I can turn pedals on and off individually. And while in that stomp box bank that button takes you to the last bank. So if you’re in a song you push the button to go to go to stompbox mode, then pressing again brings you back to your song. Works awesome.
I also use toggle groups for each pedal being on/off so I can also have some individual pedals directly accessible within the specific song’s bank, and everything stays consistent throughout the MC8 Pro.
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Thank you @jason.nguyen @drake10101 for your comments, very helpful!