I’ve been getting on very well with my MC6 Pro so far, but there’s one thing - apparently very simple - that I can’t get right.
I want to have a toggle switch on all banks that turns a loop on my MIDI loop switcher on and off.
I’ve designated a switch for this, set it to “Toggle Mode on” and assigned different commands to the two positions. Pos1 calls up the command PC#20 (Loop OFF) and Pos2 calls up PC#21 (Loop ON). Now the initial position of the switch is different in each bank. So in “Edit Bank” I set the appropriate command when calling up the bank (on or off, or #21 or #20). I’ve also assigned the color red to the Off-command and green to the On-command.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work at all. The bank-commands I entered in Edit Bank are correct, but they don’t always match the colors and there is constant confusion with the status (Pos1 or Pos2) and the corresponding colors (there are only two anyway). I also tried “remember toggle states” in the general settings - that does not help.
Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? I hope you know what I mean and someone can help me.
Hi,
I think you’ve confused which message has to be set to which position. That’s a common mistake new users make.
The default state of a preset on bank entry is ‘pos 1’ (or ‘dis-engaged’).
If ‘toggle mode’ is active, any action (e.g. press, long press, double tap) will toggle the preset to ‘pos 2’ (or ‘engaged’).
If you want the loop to be engaged, if the mc’s preset is ‘engaged’, you’ll have to programm the
ON message to pos 1 and the OFF message to pos 2 !
Read: send message x on action y if the preset is in position z.
In your case: “Send pc 21, on press, if the preset is in position 1.”
To ensure that the position of the preset reflects the actual state of the loop on bank entry you’ll have to programm two messages to ‘on enter’
First the pc message and a second message with:
‘set toggle’ + ‘engage preset’ (if you’ve send an ON message)
or
‘set toggle’ + ‘dis-engage preset’ (if you’ve send an OFF message)
Thank you very much for your answer. It helped a lot… 
Unfortunately I have to be annoying again, I think I’m too stupid for this.
I have now set everything up as you described.
edit preset: switch E > toggle on > Pos1: PC#20 (off/red) > Pos2: PC#21 (on/green)
edit bank: msg1 > on enter bank > PC #21
msg2 > on enter bank > set toggle > engage toggle > letter E
Unfortunately it doesn’t work as desired. When I enter the bank everything is set as desired, but when I then activate the toggle switch E, the color changes to red (for the desired off status) BUT it still remains on. When I switch it, it works the other way round (green is off and red is on). If I swap the colours in edit preset, the bank entry status is wrong again… 
I also tried “set toggle (beta)” in toggle position.
Of course I control the correct MIDI channel.
what have I missed?
Try:
Pos1: PC21 (off/red) > Pos2: PC 20 (on/green)
You want to send an ON message when pressing if the preset is dis-engaged (in position 1) and an OFF message if it is engaged (in position 2)!
I’ve already tried that. That doesn’t change the fact that the coloring is wrong. And when I change the colors, the default bank status is wrong.
Anyway…Never mind, I’m following a different workflow now
Just to clarify. If you set red to position 1 and green to position 2. You would still have to set pc 21 for ‘On’ to position 1.