Trying to control Strymon pedals via midi.. but it won’t work

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I know how midi works. I use to control my whole pedal board with a midi switcher, but I cannot for the life of me get the QC to send one simple CC to my Timeline. I literally cannot even engage/disengage it.

Can someone please help. Like most things with the QC, the instructions are worthless. Literally nothing is happening and it is driving me insane.

Also… if I ever do get this to work: can I even send more than one message for each scene? Or is it just one message per scene… that would really really suck if that’s the case

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Update… got it to work ONLY if I turn MIDI Thru OFF…. How do I get around that? I need it to be ON

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It’s one CC message per scene for now. Major gripe for MIDI users, there are other threads on this topic.

EDIT: Vote here if you haven’t already.

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NDSP inexplicably disables the ability to send MIDI from the QC when Thru is on. I had the same issue, and have confirmed with them that this is what it does. It’s wrong, not how MIDI is supposed to be implemented, a clear mistake in their design. Sure, vote for the features (I have) but I’ve known about this one for 2 years, so don’t expect it’s on their list.

You may also find that you can’t send more than 1 command per button, a death knell for using the QC as a controller for multiple pedals. This is also a feature request. Also not being addressed.

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