Toggle page on long press not working when press triggers a bank jump

Morningstar Gear MC3/6/8 MIDI Controllers
1

I’ve recently upgraded from an Mc6 Mk II to an MC8, and am trying to finish programming for my pedalboard devices. I’ve been using longpress to toggle pages, and did that without problems on my MC6… but perhaps I didn’t have this use case.
On a page where the press of the button which executes the toggle page on long press sends a CC message, the toggle page action succeeds. On another page, where the button shared with the toggle page function executes a bank jump, the toggle page does not work; the bank jump is executed on both press and long press actions.

Is this a planned restriction, a known bug, or is there some special programming needed to make this setup work? I have my page navigation planned out, and although I could revise that to work around this problem, I would really rather not.

Any help/info appreciated, thanks.

2

Long Press has always triggered Press as well. This is not a new thing and is documented in the Action Type List. If you want the 2 actions to perform independently, you’ll need to swap out Press for Release.

3

Thanks, Brandon. I guess I didn’t have this use case with my prior board and page setup.

4

Just following up. In order to have a button do a page jump or page toggle depending on the button action, I had to use just the Release for the page jump and just the LongPress Release for the page toggle. That may be what you meant, @benjamin, but I didn’t understand. I tried various combinations and the two different Release actions did the trick!

Thanks again for the solution.

5

Yes, that is correct. Bank Jump will always be executed last (on release) because the other messages need to be triggered and sent first before leaving the bank.

6

Get yourself a cheap AUX SWITCH.
I use EHX AUX 3 button switch with my MC8.
Plug it into Omniport two - and set up the OMNIPORT to use presets T U V.
IN CONTROLLER SETTINGS.

YOU CAN NOW GET THREE ACTIONS OER SWITCH.

EXAMPLE
Put the following actions in the presets.
In Bank 1

PRESET T -
release - mc bank up
Double tap - BANK JUMP to another Bank
Long press - BANK JUMP to another bank

PRESET U -
release - mc toggle page
Double tap - BANK JUMP to another Bank
Long press - BANK JUMP to another bank

PRESET V -
release - mc bank Down
Double tap - BANK JUMP to another Bank
Long press - BANK JUMP to another bank

In the EDITOR
COPY THE PRESETS TO ALL BANKS using this method:
For each of the presets
copy the preset - then triple click the paste preset - to paste it to all banks

Repeat for the other two presets.

Works like magic.
No more fiddling with navigation on the MC 8.