I’ve searched, I’ve contemplated, and I can’t figure it out.
I have a guitar pedal that’s fully MIDI controllable, particularly the ‘drive’ function on CC 13, values 1-127 (1 being the lowest amount of drive, 127 the highest). The pedal cannot transmit MIDI; only receive.
I have a Behringer X-Touch Mini, and I want to control that drive function with a knob. The Behringer software has three relative modes, but they are useless here.
If I physically change the drive knob on the pedal to a high value (the actual number would be unknown as there is no digital readout and no midi data sent) and then try to decrease it with the Behringer knob, the drive ‘jumps’ to whatever value the Behringer knob was last at, and then controls up or down from there. I want the Behringer knob to just tell the pedal to go down by 1 for every turn left and up by 1 for every turn right.
I’ve seen similar posts about buttons, which isn’t quite the same, and solutions when the target is able to send out data (not the case here). If this isn’t possible, so be it, but I feel like my Bome MT has the power to do this somehow. Help!
What make and model is your guitar pedal? If it is fully controllable via MIDI, what is it expecting to see for an up and down movement?
If the pedal does not transmit MIDI, then it seems there would be no way for your X-touch MIDI to know the current position so if you change the value on your pedal with your pedal itself, then there would be no way to track the current pedal position. This would mean you should never use your pedal itself to control the drive and rely only on your X-touch MINI and Bome MIDI Translator Pro to alter and track the position.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
Darn, that’s what I was afraid of. But thanks for the response!
It’s a Strymon pedal (the Riverside), and I think it just expects to receive an absolute value of 1-127. The main reason for my post is that you can save presets (containing values of about 15 different parameters), so if I load up (via a midi button) a random preset but find that I’d like to increase or decrease the drive a little bit, that’s where the MIDI knob would come in. And it works for that, but with the ‘jumping’ I mentioned (not the end of the world).
According to the manual, you can configure your pedal to both send and receive MIDI.
See page 19.
You would then be able to capture the current setting in Bome MIDI Translator Pro and then using relative to absolute, increment or decrement based on the last number the pedal has sent.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz