Hey everyone,
Brand new to the Morningstar family (just ordered mine yesterday) and am curious about the resistor ladder aux switch vs the traditional TRS setup.
I just ordered a Compact SideAux switch from Pedalnetics to pair with the MC6 Pro that should be arriving early next week. My question is the functionality within the MC6 Pro that can be assigned to the switches. I was not able to find a video or documentation that assures me that the two methods (resistor ladder vs TRS) can both be assigned equally.
Ideally, I would like to assign the three switches to have an action that would be specific to the bank I am in, so the aux switches would essentially be G, H and I respectively. Is this possible? The aux switch video, granted it’s several years old, shows the aux switch being assigned to a specific action. I could work with this, but ideally I would like them to just be extra switches on the MC6 Pro.
Thoughts?
Mark
Traditional TRS aux switches and resistor ladders can be programmed to work the same way, though electronically they’re very different**.
In the Controller Settings => Configure Omniports menu, you just set the corresponding Omniport to the kind of switch, then set it to “Preset __” to match the presets you want. Those refer to the specific presets in those banks. The other available functions are global in the sense that they trigger regardless of the bank.
**The technical differences if you care: Aux switches take the Tip as one switch, the Ring as another switch, and in the case of three-button aux switches, the third switch triggers the Tip + Ring simultaneously. Resistor ladder switches basically do some fancy resistor math so that each combination of presses produces a different amount of resistance in the circuit. The controller interprets these into button presses.
Thank you, Jason. I was generally aware of the differences between the two switch types, but that detail really helped understand it even more. I was also 99% sure that the two switches would operate the same way, but the video showing AUX switch setup from a few years ago left me wondering if somehow it was different.
