CulBoji

I tried everything and nothing worked, it's something to do with the Helix sending and receiving MIDI at the same time. I bought a iRig Blueboard (Bluetooth MIDI footswitch) and I am using that to change the songs while the Helix only receives MIDI data from the DAW. This works great but it's pretty stupid to not be able to use the Helix for this.

I set the CC# to 100/101/102/103 and have the Helix MIDI channel set to 2 and the DAW channel set to 1. I still have freezing buttons issues. The issues do not happen if I mute the MIDI track that sends CCs and PCs to the Helix. It only happens if the Helix sends MIDI data while receiving MIDI data. The Windows Helix editor also crashes a lot if it's open while I send MIDI data to the Helix.

The footswitches are set to " MIDI CC", MIDI Chanel 1, CC# 1 trough 4, value 127. I set up Cubase to respond to those CCs.

In Cubase you can put markers in a project and you have functions to jump to the next marker or the previous one. So all songs are in the same project and have a marker on where they start. I setup Cubase to listen to CC1 for jump back and CC2 for jump forward, the Prev footswitch sends CC1 and the Next footswitch sends CC2. The MIDI track in Cubase sends a PC to the Helix with the patch when it reaches the songs start point (the marker point) So: you press Next> goes to the next marker in Cubase> Cubase goes to the marker and sends a PC to Helix> Helix changes the patch. This happens almost instantaneous and you will have the Next footswitch still pressed when the Helix changes the patch.

I attached a pic of how I have my footswitches setup in the patches. All my patches are set the same way. My setting for Snapshots is set to "Discard" but I don't see how that would affect changing patches. My problem happens when my DAW changes the patches, not the snapshots in the patch. Changing snapshots in the patch goes well.

Yes the footswitch with the CC's are setup identically in all the patches. Only the footswitches that send MIDI commands stop working, they don't seem to send MIDI commands anymore. If I change to a different patch manually then they start working again but after I press the footswitch to change song/patch it stops working again. I tested again and it actually sends 2 CC's to switch songs instead of 1 before stoping to work: press footswitch to send CC to change song> DAW changes song and sends PC> Helix changes to the next patch and sends the CC to change song again> DAW changes song again The CC's should only be sent on button down and not momentary so after changing the patch it should wait for me to depress the footswitch and then press it again to send the CC. The footswitch is set to "MIDI CC", channel 1, CC#1/2/3/4, value 0 in the Command Center.

Hi, I have a problem with my Helix (floor edition): When playing live I am using backing tracks that are played from the computer. I set 4 of the Helix buttons to send MIDI CC messages for Start, Stop, Next, Previous to my DAW. I also made a MIDI track in my DAW that sends PC's and CC's to change patches and snapshots on my Helix automatically while playing the songs. The problem is this: the Helix footswitches stop working after I use the footswitches to jump to the next song and the DAW sends the MIDI PC to change the patch on the Helix. This is what happens: footswitch pressed> sends CC to jump to the next song> DAW jumps to the next song> DAW transmits the PC and CC to change patch and snapshot> Helix changes patch but footswitches do not work anymore The footswitches will start working again after I manually change to another patch and back. This problem does not happen when I change the songs on my DAW manually on the computer, patches on the Helix change and behave like they should. So I think this is a bug in the firmware that happens when a footswitch is pressed while getting a PC command. The problem also does not happen if the DAW only sends CC's for changing snapshots and not PC's for changing patches. The DAW is Cubase 9. The Helix has the latest firmware (2.12) installed. The Helix is connected to the computer via USB.