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I have a bunch of audio effects chains racked up. I'd like to switch between them with a midi command. I see the chain selector allows for midi control, but I'm confused what command to send it. I use a Keith McMillian softstep pedal, so I can program whatever it needs. It seems like a simple scroll up/down would be perfect, but that little tab seems difficult to move evenly. A know would just blow past my first 6-8 presets. Anybody have experience with this?

Thanks

Unless you have a way to control how quickly it scrolls, then it might be tough. I've used knobs to scroll, and that's worked fine. I'd suggest using something with buttons to make it easier. The nanoKontrol is a great cheap controller that works well.

I can't seem to get it to scroll with a button. That'd actually be cool if I could. Wonder why they didn't included an incremental scroll like they did for the scene launch midi controls. Not such a far leap.

This is perfect for incremental controls:

What I do is have 2 specific controls mapped to 2 buttons to tell the macro knob to move one step left, and another right. This is done using Clyphx X-controls, that way I don't have to use clips to give the instructions, but a text file.

After you install clyphx, you can practice this instruction using clips in your set, but let's assume you'll go the x-controls route.
In your clyphx remote script folder you'll find a text file "user settings". At the bottom is where you'll give the instructions to tell the macro knob to move one step left and another step right.

You can use either a cc message or a note message. You might want to use a note if the cc gives out continuous pressure data like the Quneo does, this way it's just on/off; it's more stable.

So, let's say it's the 1st macro knob on the 3rd device on the 2nd track. The instruction would be

note, 9, 10, 2/dev3 1<
note, 9, 11, 2/dev3 1>

before that you give each control a name like "macro_left" and macro_rite so it'd be

macro_left = note, 9, 10, 2/dev3 p1<
macro_rite = note, 9, 11, 2/dev3 p1>

The names can be whatever you want.

So it's 'name' = 'note or cc', 'midi channel', 'midi note or cc number', 'track'/'dev#'/'macro#'

You can also use the name of the track channel in quotation marks so if track 2 is called SPLERF it would be

macro_left = note, 9, 10, "splerf"/dev3 p1<

It's all in the manual.

X-controls are a great way to make custom mappings to your set especially if you have things set more long term, like a template.
You could make custom mappings to control all your devices the way you wanted to if you want. And it also doesn't clutter up the midi map area.