I think the answer is… maybe? I’ve not had a chance to fully test it yet, but in stomp mode I think the idea would be to simply not assign any stomps to those two buttons, and then go into the MIDI setup and add your MIDI messages to them. In theory that should make those 2 stomps “MIDI Only” - but i haven’t been able to confirm that this works without any weird quirks.
One quirk I do know was (or could be) an issue previously was that MIDI messages only send on the initial press. Meaning that anything after the first press will do nothing. You need to press some other stomp, and THEN come back and hit it for it to send the MIDI messages again. I hope that makes sense… it’s not an issue in all cases, but if you are expecting the messages to be sent EVERY time you hit the stomp - they won’t be. Only the initial press, stomping on the same switch more than once won’t re-send MIDI.
That’s helpful thank you. Since I’m sending the messages to simply activate presets on external pedals which I can disengage on the pedal itself if needed, this might be all I need.
Yeah that’s one of those use cases where the “only sends once” might be an issue - if you say, hit it, it updates your external pedals, than you change settings on the pedals themselves (engage/disengage), and then want to “reset” them back - so you stomp on the same QC switch (if you haven’t stomped anything else on the QC) but nothing is gonna happen. It won’t “reset” the state of the external gear. You’d need to stomp something else and then come back. Again, hope that makes sense. Obviously, if you’re aware, you can maybe work around it, but I do just wish it sent the MIDI commands EVERY time - or at least had a setting to enable/disable that behavior as I can see cases for both modes of operation. Anyway, good luck!
I see the this post is a few months old but thought I’d reply anyway.
The answer is Yes! You can use an external midi switch to take the place of the UP/DOWN switches on the QC. Get a small, dual midi switch that can send multiple commands and take a look at the “Incoming MIDI Reserved CC List” section of the QC manual. You’ll see midi CC commands to change the different views. You can stack the midi commands on top of one another and get the QC in whatever view you want.
It depends on which “up/down” you’re talking about - there is no direct MIDI equivalent for the preset up/down stomps - this has been a big sticking point for many use cases
You’re right Rex, my bad. I should have been more specific. I meant the specific “view” not stepping up/down through the programs. The lack of midi implementation on the QC has got me baffled once again!
But I can confirm that what I was trying to do (use 2 unused QC footswitches to send midi commands to activate presets on my GFI specular tempus pedal do get to my 4 main delay sounds) does work.
This is perfect for me now. The only complaint and it’s a silly one is that I just have 2 grey unlabeled blocks in stomp mode. Would be nice to label those switch positions. Oh well. Not the end of the world for me.
can you add a dummy block to the switch to enable editing the gig view block display? I see that’s what some folks are doing to be able to edit the title/name
Place a gain block with and make sure it is just set to keep the signal the same output wise. That can be assigned to the footswitch as well, and would at least let you name the switch/wouldn’t use much dsp. there won’t be any change in sound if the gain block isn’t doing anything other than there for the switch name.
I am not able to program my Mvave Chocolate to change modes between Stomp & Scene modes.
I know that the midi CC is 47 value 2 for Stomp and Value 1 for Scene but doesn’t work…
Any trick?
Is anything changing? Like can you get to any mode at all via MIDI?
One issue that can arise is if you have played with the mode settings - like enabling hybrid mode or re-ordering the modes in any way then the values to select them will ALSO change - this is not in the manual.
Meaning if you swapped around any of the items here:
The values also changed - 0 will the first mode, 1 the second, 2 the third - WHATEVER mode they may be. So instead of value 2 being stomp it might be value 0 if stomp is “first” in the settings list.
Maybe that helps, if you haven’t played with that, I’m not aware of any “tricks” to make it work - it’s just a simple CC message, not something like preset changes where you need to do multiple things. It should “just work”
