Community: Message List - Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:04:27 GMT

Well, what I described in my last post fixed the problem... for the most part. Additionally, once you set midi value for the controller to either 00 or 127 (it should be that value for all controllers. I have found if I set the value different for even just one controller, it goes back to everything being "on" again) you have to save the patch backwords; whatever effect you want to default to on must be saved as off in the patch, and vice versa. Then when you select the patch via your midi controller, whatever CCs you've got to on will trigger to on, and whatever's off will trigger to off.

Even reading what I just wrote it's still confusing as heck. Hopefully this helps you somehow.

It is a royal pain in the arse, completely counter-intuitive, but it's a fix until line 6 fix their midi implementation.

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:01:58 GMT

I'm having the same problem with my CAE Rs-10, and I find no way to fix it. Line6 needs to address this fast.

They can't expect the makers of footcontrollers to adapt. The have to adapt to standard beavoir cc less than 64 off and more on. I just bought two DT-25 heads with cabs and an Pod Hd Pro, sounds amazing but this problems make it hard to use.

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:05:46 GMT

Actually reading back through this I am a little confused. The MIDI settings that you accessed when you held down the Move button on the directional keypad ion the POD are supposed to affect the MIDI information sent by the Pod rather than received. It sounds to me like you have hit on some kind of weird, undocumented behaviour or something.

I use those settings to assign footswitches to send MIDI commands from my HD500 to to my Marshall amp for channel changes within a preset, when I hit a footswitch. If you were controlling a POD Pro with a MIDI foot controller I would not expect you to need to configure those buttons at all.

Can you tell us a little more about this? DId you always have settings in the MIDI assign screen configured or have you just put them in to try and fix your problem?

How are you cabled up? Just a Midi cable from the Midi Mate MIDI Out tot the Pod MIdi In?

Is the POD setup for MIDI Out or MIdi THRU?

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:51:37 GMT

Not entirely sure I follow all that but ... yey

Glad you nailed it. Seriously frustrating.

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:35:51 GMT

I have it figured out; it has to do with the hidden midi assignment menu that you reach by holding down the move button. Apparently every assignable footswitch has 4 parameters, the first being the midi channel, the second the corresponding value of a given footswitch (51 for FS4, for instance) and the last being midi value of either 00 or 127, and having that final value correctly set for a particular footswitch dictates the behaviors I've described above. Without going into that menu and manually assigning the midi-channel and making sure that final value is 00, it seems to default to the 127 and assumes whatever CC message is being recieved means "ON". Weird and a serious pain in the arse.
It makes programing per patch a bit more complicated than I'd like, but the extra time is deffinitely worth not going out and spending a few hundred on a new midi controller. And hey, should any other midimate owners run into this problem, well, there you go!

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:05:01 GMT

It is a weirdy alright. However, the board is not littered with outraged Pod Pro owners saying that they cannot get their Midi to work right so I am guessing that the problem is specific to the Pro and the Midimate combination. I was trying to find something in the Midimate manual that allows you to supress those additional CC controller messages being sent along with the Patch change message but I could not see anything, other than to change to one of the other control modes.

If you really want to see what is being sent to the POD you could try MidiOX. This is a Midi 'smiffer' and should allow you to see the specific Midi messages being sent to the POD by the Midimate. You need a Midi Interface connected to your PC as you cannot sniff via USB on the POD HD500 http://midiox.com/

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:29:51 GMT

Ya, I already tried saving the patch with the effects saved as "on" and "off", and regardless they end up being either staying on, or switching on. and I doubled checked to make sure I don't have any of the button's set to the same CC number i.e. switch 5 with a value of 51 and 6 with a value of 51 (tripping it twice) etc.

It's deffinitely the weirdest MIDI behavior I've seen.

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:16:44 GMT

Page 14 of the PDF Manual for the Midimate says :

"The status of the parameter that is being turned on/off by the MlDI

Mate™ is stored by the MlDI Mate™ also, thereby sending the correct MIDI

control change command (on or off) when the program is changed. For every

button assigned to a control number, a control change will be sent every time

the preset is changed. For example, if buttons 5, 6, 7 and 8 are set to control

numbers 11, 12, 13 and 14 respectively, every time a program change is

made four MIDI control change commands (control changes 11,12,13,14)

would be sent on the corresponding MIDI channels."

This assumes you are in 'Controller Access Mode' which I guess you are. If so, this means that the Midi CC toggles get sent to the HD Pro and given the behaviour I described earlier means that the effects will get toggled on

I would expect that the fix is to save the HD patch with the effects turned on. In that way, the effects would be turned off when it receives the patch select message and accompanying CCs. Will that work?

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:51:03 GMT

It's not that it will do nothing, because once the patch is selected, I can toggle the effect(s) on and off via the assigned midi CC once the preset is loaded on the HD Pro. It's that the HD Pro thinks EVERYTHING should be ON when it recieves a preset command, regardless of whether the included CCs are set to ON of OFF in that preset. It's the darndest thing. I don't have that problem on the Rocktron prophesy, vooduvalve, or my Digitech GSP1101, but the Pod HD Pro is interpreting it as described.

Re: Midi Controller message defaults to "On" for effect, regardless if the that controller is set to "On" or "Off" Pod HD Pro

support@line6.com — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:17:20 GMT

Hmm ... that is a little different from what people have reported before, if I understand it. To be clear for me: are you saying that even after you have selected the preset on the Midimate, that the footswitch that you assigned to toggle the harmoniser on/off does not do anything?

Going through the general setup as a sanity check ...

For this example: lets say that you have a patch saved as patch 1A on the first setlist and it contains your harmoniser. The setup would be:

1) Assign the Harmoniser to a 'footswitch' on the Pod (let's say F5). You always have to toggle effects on/off via a footswitch: you do not have direct access to any effect. You do this on the 'controllers' screen in HD Edit or via button-pressing on the Pod itself.

2) Setup the Midimate Patch to send out a send any value to CC #55 (i.e. to footswitch F5) when you hit a specific pedal within theMidimate patch. Can't say how this is specifically done but the manual is here --> http://www.fullcompass.com/common/files/5070-MIDI-Mate%20Rocktron%20manual.pdf

I take it you have seen the full MIDI implementation in the HD Pro advanced manual (appendix C).