Presets and Snaps with Morning Star

[guitarboy_02451]

With the new features in the Morning Star MC 6/8 etc... you can now run a midi cable from the stomp into the MC6, originally only the MC6 controlled the stomp now it's two ways. This opens up way more capabilities than I imagined when the feature was first announced in October 2020: See 1:48 and 3:26

 

What I discovered is this is a fantastic option for being able to bank up / down from the MC6, but in the order you want... not sequentially, although it can be. You can use the MC6 to bank from say a clean preset at 1A to a Dirty in 4B just by giving the PC number in the assigned bank. So you could technically build a set list. I personally do not have a use case for this, but it's nice to be able to not only  select presets from the Stomp, but also from the MC6. 

Another great feature is that I just discovered is that if the MC6 is doing the bank up / bank down work, plus you have the 6 switches on the MC to toggle any effect block, this frees up the ability to put the stomp into Snapshot mode. I just tested this... This is like having your cake and eating it too. You get six buttons for parameters, toggle presets either sequentially or in any order you like, and you can keep the stomp in snapshot mode. IIRC, this was not doable in the past. If the Stomp was in Snapshot mode, the MC only controlled the snaps... If my memory serves me right.
 

So for those that think the Stomp is limited, I'm hear to say otherwise. Unless you're Robert Fripp, Alex Lifeson or The Edge, I don't see any limitations here. 

 

 

 

 

[st158791]

I was hoping to do this on my HXFX but it doesn't work.  I'm wondering if my device is defective or the HXFX isn't capable of doing this.  I've tried every combination of connections and midi global settings.  But there's really just one to do it correctly, which makes me think the unit is defective in some way.  

 

I can send PC and CC commands from the HXFX to my amp and change channels and other setting but I can't get the MC8 to change banks with the HXFX.  Bummer.

I'm trying to figure this out on the Morning Star forum.