I’m trying my best to use the Brothers AM as the only drive on my board (so far it’s going well), but that means I need as much functionality via Midi as possible. I’m trying to see if it’s possible to use one switch/preset to toggle the high gain modes for each side based on press/long press. It would be cool to incorporate the Boost mode in there as well with the shift state, but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around what messages I need to send to achieve this.
Currently I’m having issues trying to have essentially 4 toggle states - regardless of what position one side is in (high gain on or off) I want to be able to press and hold to toggle the other side. I have it mostly working, but sometimes it just doesn’t work as I’d expect. Am I even approaching this the right way?
Hi, the issue is that both ‘long press’ messages are set to position ‘both’.
If you perform a long press the action will trigger message 3 and message 4, regardless of the position of the preset. The MC sends a CC value 1 and a CC value 0 almost simultaneously.
Releasing the footswitch after a long press (msg 6) will toggle the preset’s position without sending the CC that have been programmed to your ‘release’ messages (msg 1 and msg 2).
At that point everything is out of sync.
There are multiple ways to create a preset that can do what you want.
I haven’t tested this, but what I would suggest is this:
Scrap your ‘long press’ and ‘long press release’ messages.
Add a ‘long press’ with ‘engage preset + release’ position ‘both’.
Target the preset you’ve probably already set up to toggle the other side.
You can now toggle the other side on/off by performing a long press on your original preset regardless of the position of said preset.
With morningstar there are often multiple ways to create what you want.
I believe @GuitarWolf already has some pointers to fix it the way you set out to do it.
However, I would use the preset message scroll option . This doesn’t limit you to three options either. You could have boost, overdrive, distortion and high gain distortion in one preset.
I beleive the functionality is explained here:
(24) Two Notes Opus with MC6 PRO - MIDI finally! - YouTube
Use CC messages instead of PC.
Although from a more practical view, I can imagine you end up with a bunch of presets on the Brothers AM, and it might be more useful to scroll through the presets (back to PC messages), than to be able to tweak all settings This is actually how I programmed my brothers AM page. One preset to scroll through all presets/ pc messages, one to toggle side 1, one to toggle side 2, one to toggle the treble boost, one to save a new preset.
This worked perfectly, thank you so much!
