Couldn’t agree more on favorite designs:
Like most of their other stuff as well though. Thermae and Mood MKII look especially beautiful. Habit is probably a bit too quirky.
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and don’t forget the cool LE mood mk2 and GL2
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My personal favs. I actually sold my Mood Mk2 to get the LE because it’s so much easier to read for me. Night and day. I also love how whimsical the design is.
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I ordered the chase bliss midibox last week to tempo sync my mood mkll to my poly beebo/m8. It’s a whole different pedal now, and a lot more useful to me, as I’ve had a bit of a hard time to integrate it while working on songs that weren’t started on the mood. I’ve also pre-ordered the reverse mode C, so I’m looking forward to sync that up as well. The only problem is that the one remaining midi out socket on the midibox is looking at me all seductive.
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I’ve been on the fence about ordering this. This is really interesting to hear from someone. It’s really not very expensive. I should probably just suck it up and get one. I’d also be able to start saving presets in songs for future recall and that would likely get me a lot more engaged in the programming side of things. It’s so infinite and only having easy access to 2 presets makes me sort of passive about really digging deep into it.
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My take on this is to take pictures of my favourite knob settings and to store them in a notes app along with annotations. I do this with all of my effects pedals. I mean, quickly recalling the position of 6 knobs and 3 switches is not a big deal, unless you’re on stage naturally.
With synths, I also do this when I do not change too many parameters, otherwise I will save the patches.
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I didn’t intend on making much use of the preset function via midi (as I primarily ordered it for tempo sync), but now that I’ve tested it with the M8, I gotta say it’s pretty useful and hassle free to save and load up presets.
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With other pedals, I think I would agree. But regarding the mood mkll (or I guess other CB pedals), it’s a lot more to take note of with all the dip switches and hidden settings. And yeah, for live use, I guess there’s no way around midi, or just using each pedal for one specific purpose for the whole set.
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It does change the game entirely: will probably get into preset creation for MOOD mk2 and Habit in future. Up until now only used and loved for CC manipulation from Elektron MIDI sequencers.
I do wish they’d just make a cable (yes, I will keep banging this drum!) quite inconvenient, takes more space, cables and power than necessary.
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I dunno. The “classy” designs are cool, but I like the funhouse look of the Habit too 
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Are you sure it’s not just Type B Midi?
That’s what I have written in my notes for when I had Blooper.
I’ll give Mood & GL MKII a test later.
I also have a midi box from disaster area designs, which I think is far more useful than the CBA midi box.
I also have these, which are great:
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Can’t respond in full right now and appreciate the recommendations - believe there’s a diagram up-thread that demonstrates the unusual tip/ring approach they’ve taken and that this differs from Type B. Happy to be wrong!
Yes, the Desaster Area Designs MIDI Box 4 works flawlessly with my MOOD MKII: I only had to set the MIDI Box 4 DIP switches for one connection to Ring active. The other connector are set to Tip active which is necessary e.g. for Strymon, Eventide, Source Audio etc. pedals.
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Disaster Area sells a cable that works with chase bliss pedals that’s just midi to trs. I’m using it with my mood mkii, however it doesn’t work with all midi outputs and I can’t recall right now what determines whether it works or not. I tried it with my RME Fireface UCX and didn’t work but I have an old Emagic MT4 usb/midi interface and it works flawlessly with that.
It’s definitely not Type B, What I did was buy some regular TRS 1/4" jacks off ebay, chopped a midi cable in half and then soldered up 2 CB midi leads using the wiring diagram on their website.
Yea agreed it’s not type B, not sure if a name exists for it
I think Calc from novation covers CBA midi here in context of the blooper.
I know the idea behind CBAs non standard midi is to allow for the use of midi and an ext foot switch( or tap tempo for some) from one port
But it’s really annoying and very irrelevant once you have the foot switch mapped to a midi cc
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On the topic of the Mood mkii and Midi:
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You’re absolutely right (along with @Stlaub & @aaanicholls).
I was wrong. Definitely not type B.
I finally got around to trying to bypass using the Disaster Area Midi Box 4, but just wasn’t possible.
I’m glad I kept this box, because I’m having fun using Push 3 with GLMKII.
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This looks interesting. I’d imagined someone might do this in Max, but anything that lets me tweak under the hood a little is a great start.
Mood MkII Editor:
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