vowitzel Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Hi everybody, I have a challenge - not a huge problem but annoying: I have a POD500x connect with a MIDI enabled amp (H&K Tubemeister 40). I use the POD in stompbox mode and have three switches to control the amp's channels (clean, crunch, lead) in power soak mode. Whenever I switch presets, the amp goes back into "default mode", i.e. clean without power soak. To fix that I have to tap again the right channel in the preset after switching. What I'd like to achieve is changing presets without this extra step (so staying in the previous mode OR ensuring the new preset sends a midi signal with power soak on). Any ideas how to achieve this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurghanico Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 What you need to know is that the POD always sends automatically a MIDI program change every time you select one of its presets. The automatic MIDI program changing is a fixed behavior that can not be deactivated, but the good news is that by default it happens only on the general MIDI channel set for the device. Solution: The MIDI commands sent through your patches can be set to a different (than the device general one) MIDI channel and the same different channel can be set in your amp to respond accordingly, and to ignore the MIDI program changes sent automatically by the device when selecting patches. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vowitzel Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Thanks Hurghanico. sorry I have missed your reply so far. Cool, works great! Thanks a lot :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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