Footswitch pedal for changing patterns?

[PeterHanes]

@Paulsvibes

so just to make sure we are talking about the SAME thing. I know that each Track T1-T6 has its own pattern (1-16).

We are talking about the same thing, but you’re a little confused with the terminology.

• There are 6 banks (A to F) each with 16 patterns (01 to 16).
• Each pattern contains 6 tracks (1 to 6).
• The M:S doesn’t have scenes.
• If you press [PATTERN] + [T2] then you’re selecting bank B.
• if you press [PATTERN] + [TRIG 6] then you’re selecting pattern 6 in the current bank. If the current bank is B then you’re selecting pattern B06.

@Paulsvibes

im talking about how I have copied all tracks and their patterns from PATTERN + TRIG 1 to TRIG 2 (trig pattern 1 has the intro of all 6 tracks arranged, and then Trig Pattern 2 has the same but a slight variation different to build up the music). I’m not just wanting a midi controller key external to press to make it change any single T1-T6 track pattern or Banks A - F, im wanting it to change to Trig Pattern 2

Yup; you’re wanting to change from pattern 1 in a bank to pattern 2 in a bank. You can change patterns using MIDI Program Change (PC) messages.

The message required depends on which pattern in which bank you’re switching to:

• if you want to switch to pattern A02 then you need to send a PC message with a value of 1,
• if you want to switch to pattern B02 then you need to send a PC message with a value of 17,
  and so on until
• if you want to switch to pattern F02 then you need to send a PC message with a value of 81.

@Paulsvibes

method 1: use an external midi key press to make M:S all banks and patterns start OVER by making it switch to Pattern/Scene 2 from scene 1 and plays all the banks tracks as arranged to liking.

Read the above about banks, patterns, and scenes. You can change pattern using a Program Change message sent from another device.

@Paulsvibes

method 2: use an external midi key press to make M:S one individual BANK Track sample do whatever i want such as turn on or MUTE, or retrig it with a 1/8th to 1/16th notes build up.

You can do some but not all of these things by sending MIDI Control Change (CC) messages from another device. The list of things you can do is in Appendix A (page 53) of the manual.

The other things you can only change manually on the M:S itself.

@Paulsvibes

That is exactly what i want to do to the M:S with an external midi controller by one key press, make it go to pattern 1, or to 2, or to 3, or 4 etc or even back down to 1

Your Venom can only do this by selecting a new program on it.

So you need a smarter MIDI controller; since all the Elektron gear works the same way then you will find a bunch of discussion all over the forum with experiences of what people use, such as:

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