Controlling external fx with midi on LT.My experience

[garagedays]

I’m sure this information may seem irrelevant for some but I thought I would share in case it helps someone else in the future as I had a couple of frustrating days getting things working how I wanted.

As I’ve sold off nearly all my pedals I was hoping to use my LT to control a GT 1000 core and Bigsky and retire my G-lab GSC-4.

All items worked fine together with the G-lab previously.,so I was confident the helix could the basic commands I would be looking for.

i followed a couple of useful videos on command centre and the GT was fine but the behaviour of the Bigsky was erratic and didnt match the commands selected instead partially following the commands of the GT core. I checked all of my commands and midi settings on all devices multiple times without luck UNTIL … I changed my Bigskys midi channel from 1 to 2. I have no idea how this is possible but everything works as expected now so happy days. If anyone has an answer as to this strange phenomenon I would be curious to know. Cheers

[rd2rk]

When you have multiple MIDI devices in a daisy chain, you want them all to have their own MIDI channel, else if they have messages in common you can get some unexpected results. 

[garagedays]

On 1/27/2025 at 4:31 AM, rd2rk said:

When you have multiple MIDI devices in a daisy chain, you want them all to have their own MIDI channel, else if they have messages in common you can get some unexpected results. 

Yes I totally understand this, each device has its own channel from using the  GSC-4, it was more that the Bigsky wouldn't operate correctly when assigned to channel 1

which I thought was a little odd.