Connecting external midi controller

In the hope that it may provide food for thought for other users using flexible controllers I thought i’d state another little layer to this pedal setup strategy

My MFC10 allows 4 part layering on half of the 100 internal memories (not on external controls) and it only supports 4 of the same, so 4 notes (chords) or 4 CC messages

So a nice potential addition to the CC config for one pedal I am experimenting with is as follows

Layer 1 :white_small_square: CC 59 on Auto Chan :white_small_square: High/On Value 060 :white_small_square: Low/Off Value 064
Layer 2 :white_small_square: CC 59 on Auto Chan :white_small_square: High/On Value 000 :white_small_square: Low/Off Value 071
Layer 3 :white_small_square: nil
Layer 4 :white_small_square: nil

when the MFC is set in Layer mode, the buttons act in a latched style, so the LED flashes after the first press until you do a second press on that particular pedal

So, beginning from a globally stopped situation, first press the button, it enables Combo Record on layer 1 and nothing on layer 2 (as 000 as a note serves no command purpose) … then when you press the switch the second time to unlatch, you go straight to play mode (disabling record) on Layer 1 and on Layer 2 you are toggling sequencer sync to that Pickup Machine & starting the sequencer using Note 071

That is handy if you have a flex on another track using the above ‘source’ pickup machine’s buffer and you want it to kick off at the moment you have captured the new loop, perhaps setting the Flex buffer at rate 32 to drop the speed in half and drop an octave

A bit problematic when you go to another Track as the Note 71 ‘Toggle Seq Sync + Start’ command will then set the Tempo by that track … note, it never toggles between Track and Global Tempo (it will jump from global tempo to Track locked tempo once) with the Note 71 command the way it does using Note 70, it may be a bug

Anyway, the layering could be a useful aspect to explore creatively on your own midi controller

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