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Hi Louis, thanks! Unfortunately, the AR cannot send CCs. Those Elektron machines sometimes have strange weaknesses: I do get that they sometimes have the approach “limitations can ignite creativity”, and also, “let’s give our various machines distinct profiles, so that people will buy more different Elektron boxes”. But stuff like “AR can do parameter slides, but no MIDI CC output; while DN can do MIDI CC output, but no parameter slides; so NEITHER can sequence fluid CC changes” kinda bugs me.

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion lol. yeah it's crazy, especially considering the price tag. if they want us to buy more elektron they could work on the connectivity/link between their own machines, instead of limiting basic functionality. if something has an encoder then it can send the value. In any case I was prepared for that and will have to grab my pyramid live as well, no problem. Thank you so much for your answer !

thx ☺it was also a lot of fun

If you want to use it for the Stomp/Stomp XL, too, I would suggest to download my config. If you open two browser windows, each one running the Bridge editor software, you can easily copy/paste a full bank, or a footswitch with all its commands, from one window to the other. So if you just want my looper control bank, copy/paste it. If you just want the REC, PLAY and STOP switches (without the Undo/Reverse one), copy those 3; but make sure to stick with same footswitch numbers, since I use SmartMessages directed at specific FS numbers. The thing is: If you want REC and PLAY to work *on press* rather than *on release*, those two footswitches cannot be sequential; since currently, sequential mode will allways switch on release. So you need the STOP footswitch to be sequential, and carry the sequencer status / LED colours. PLAY then has a SmartMessage in the PRESS stack sending STOP to the sequential step with green LED and PLAY command. I want REC to go rec=>dub=>play=>dub=>play etc., as on most loopers. For this to work on a Stop switch, I need sequential steps to be 1. nothing (just label "Stop", LED black) 2. jump back to Step 1 3. Record (red) 4. Stop, and jump back to Step 1. 5. Overdub (LED orange) 6. Stop, and jump back to Step 1. 7. Play (LED green) 8. Stop, and jump back to Step 1. 9. jump back to Step 5. So whenever I hit STOP, looper will stop. PLAY will send the STOP footswitch to step 7. REC is the complicated one: It will first "Queue next sequential step" (i.e. go up 1 step without triggering its message), then "increase sequential step" (i.e. go up 1 more step, this time triggering the message), on the STOP footswitch. Took me a while and some amount of testing to figure this out, but now it works pefectly 🙂

thanks! This is the public version of the files I made ... my private ones are a bit different, since I normally play through real amps, so instead of the amp/cab block, there is a HX effect loop block containing the Kingsley Page TS; and that effect loop block can control the gain and volume of that Kingsley tube overdrive. Also, have the ProStage Remote Wah mounted under the board, so I don't need a HX wah block and still can switch on wah at any time. But delay, reverb and modulation control is identic to my private version 😎

thanks! I haven't thoroughly A/B'ed them yet ... but the Stomp seems not too shabby as audio interface. Since the Stomp is fully digital anyhow, I guess in theory, quality is even better when recording directly from the Stomp via USB, compared to: Same digital signal being D/A converted in the Stomp, then again A/D converted in the RME 🥸

@simonglover8914 you should really compensate @TheGuacamoleXplosion ! I ordered the Pirate MIDI Bridge4 based on this video 🤔 3 weeks ago

@@ericwillekens thx, I don’t need compensation, only interested in pushing my feature requests up the list 😁

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Hi Mike, thanks, glad you liked it 🥳

thx ... the 25 is a rather simple synth, so I never cared too much about presets, you get everywhere fast on your own. I think loading from the sub37 is not possible, since the 37 has more sonic options (2nd LFO, mod matrix etc.) that are not available on the 25.

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Thanks! I’m planning a dedicated vid on the HX + Bridge4 combo; just waiting for the next larger Bridge4 firmware update which will hopefully finally allow me to build full looper control “on press” - currently, starting a loop and going into overdub only works “on release”. You can see a bit already in the previous vid: ruclips.net/video/6zlUFzPv87E/видео.html Basically, my process was to create a CC implementation sheet for the HX Stomp, and then set up my HX template presets accordingly. Like, Delay Subdivisions are always routed to CC97, Delay Feedback to CC98, Delay Mix to CC99 etc.; looper MIDI parameters are mostly fixed, except level (which I set to CC82). Then, I made 5 banks on the Bridge4, each with a specific focus; I started out differently in the previous vid, current version as used in this vid is: Bank 1: Looper Control (Mini expression knob will control looper level) Bank 2: Basic Tone with 4 drive gain/level settings, 3 compression settings, 8 levels of reverb decay, wah/volume/LFO wah (expression knob does reverb mix) Bank 3: Delay Control with 6 subdivisions, 8 feedback levels, 7 scale settings and 4 delay modulation levels (expression knob does delay mix) Bank 4: Modulation & whammy/Pitch (expression knob does trem depth) Bank 5: Live performance, with switches for stepping through the HX presets, hold functions assigned to quick-jump to certain presets (used those when I played a gig with 3 different acts/bands with this board), and two performance switches for various sound variations, one latched, one momentary (expression knob does +/- 3dB guitar level) On the looper control bank, switch 1 is rec/dub (hold for toggling half/full speed). Switch 2 is play (hold for pan to center). Switch 3 is undo/redo (hold for toggling reverse/forward). Switch 4 is stop (hold for toggling pan left/right).

Really interesting and impressive integration. Hopefully, someday soon, I will find the time to do something similar, because your playing and noodling was really pleasing. Especially interesting is the panning thing. Is that done in the HX looper?

@@toreriksolem no, not in the looper. There are different ways to do panning on the HX; me, I’m using the mixer that appears at the end of a parallel path. There, you can do panning and volume control without sacrificing one of the 8 effects blocks. In most of my presets, I don't actually use parallel functionality: I have the parallel path with nothing on path A and a compressor on path B. Then in the mixer, path A is mute, path B carries the signal. The mixer offers two level parameters (level B and overall level) as well as path B panning. All 3 can be targets for MIDI CCs or expression pedals. I use overall level for volume pedal (controlled by the Lehle Expression pedal), and level B as trim-volume, controlled by the mini expression knob via Bridge4 bank #5.

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Just watched the video you linked to above. It does indeed have a bit more detail on how you are combining the Bridge4 and the Stomp. By the way, do you know the Pirate Aussies? Simon has been publishing some Bridge/Strymon integration videos lately. I am quite sure they would dig your videos too. Maybe I should suggest you did a collaboration on the Stomp. Or simply, they should pay you to do it for them 😅

Yep, I’m in contact with Sam and Simon ... don’t want to get paid, I’m happy enough if they fulfill most of my feature wishlist items 😄

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thx! 😊

thx! I'm using the “Organic Drum Pack” from theproducerschoice.com, but also the on-board analogue machines and some other samples, like free drum machine samples from the web and some own samples

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Awesome, thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.

neither, my daughter spray-painted it for me ☺️ You can connect a Lehle expression and ONE switch to the HX Stomp with the Y-Cable (or alternatively, two switches, OR two expression pedals). On this board, both the dual footswitch and the mini expression knob control the Pirate MIDI Bridge4 Controller, which then sends MIDI signals to the HX Stomp. So I can have the Lehle act as a volume pedal, and the expression knob controls reverb mix at the same time. Or in another preset, Lehle does whammy and expression knob controls volume.

thx! I’ll definitely do a pedalboard walk-through vid with more details, also about the ProStage. Not sure if I’ll find time for a dedicated vid. What I do in general: Since the ProStage presets are difficult to handle (you need MIDI SysEx for saving), I made ONE template preset, where the ProStage is prepared to be a Cry-Baby-ish wah, but is currently in clean boost mode at unity gain, so basically a buffer. Copied this template preset to all 128 preset locations. Now, each HX preset calls up the corresponding ProStage preset; and if I need the ProStage to be something different than a buffer - say, a wah pedal, a LFO autowah, a clean boost or a mid/treble boost - I send the according CCs from the Pirate MIDI Controller (if I want it spontaneously) and/or from the HX Command Center (if I want it permanently saved in a preset). So basically, I sourced out preset saving from the ProStage to the HX.

Everything from the vid (except for like 2 presets I made and accidentally overwrote later) is online: patchstorage.com/author/theguacamolexplosion/ 😎

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yep, it's included 🙂

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Sorry to be an absolute pain but what's the name of the sound? I had a browse through the folder but couldn't see this name

@@pritstik303 It's not ONE sound, but four; and they are not included as separate sounds in the DX7 folder, but they should be included in the project file on top level, "GUACAMOLE FM.dnprj"

not on Spotify yet, but you can find my daughter at open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/5DXCEBFka7RZO6NjK9EJ5z?si=yukEJIBFT3qWteAQib2C3Q ... we produced her first EP together during the Covid years

thx, and: yep ☺

thanks ... there’s a reason why I had to shoot this vid during daytime 😄🧠

thx 🙂 Got no Insta profile so far (only my personal non-music related one), but this is a good reminder that I should start it

thx; volume swell finger hook unfortunately didn't work anymore on this one 😊

thanks!

Thanks! I don' really have a SYSTEM for templates ... I just made very few that I use from time to time; like here at 10:42, it's a template for the specific purpose “Map the 12 pieces of a equally-split 12-step sample chain to the 12 RYTM pads; with velocity routed to filter envelop”

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Thanks for the reply! I guess I have to accept that working with these boxes means never having a finished "system" 🙃 Every time I try to make one it changes 🤣