vinny199 Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Hi guys, I have been making a wide range ot presets organised as snapshots and setting instant commands to change the patch on my strymon Big Sky that's hooked up to the helix. The problem I have is that the behaviour of the midi is weird at best. When I change patches and start hitting footswitches, the strymon goes ito a random patch (not the one supposed to be triggered) but then after a while, it starts acting correctly. I also noticed that some presets, if I don't first hit the first snapshot footswitch, the none of the midi signals are properly sent. So if I load a preset and hit a snapshot other than the first one (top left), then the strymon goes into a random patch, but if I hiit that first footswitch, then all snapshots of the presets suddenly start behaving correctly. In short, the behaviour is quite erratic. It works, but not always right away ot you have to hit a specific footswitch first. Is anyone else experiencing this behaviour and is this reliable enough to use live? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marrstians Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Do you have the midi commands set to the footswitches or to the instant commands? check each snapshot and check the command center to see what you midi messages are set as. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Go to Global Settings>MIDI/Tempo, and on Page 2, set MIDI PC Send to Off. If that is on, the Helix sends PC messages with every preset change, so you'd be calling up presets on the BigSky inadvertently. I use both the Mobius and BigSky with my Helix with MIDI, and they work perfectly. I call up different presets on each device per snapshot (they're each on different MIDI channels), and haven't had any issues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinny199 Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 Go to Global Settings>MIDI/Tempo, and on Page 2, set MIDI PC Send to Off. If that is on, the Helix sends PC messages with every preset change, so you'd be calling up presets on the BigSky inadvertently. I use both the Mobius and BigSky with my Helix with MIDI, and they work perfectly. I call up different presets on each device per snapshot (they're each on different MIDI channels), and haven't had any issues. Thanks a lot, that's exactly what the problem was. Totally solved. Thanks again Vinny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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