metallica86
Inspired
Awesome!
Quick question: on your stomp, do you use 1 block as Fx loop or you use 2 blocks 1 for fx send and 1 for fx return?
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Very Welcome. Yes, she's fantastic.
I'm still waiting for my AM4 to arrive (we're waiting on the first shipment to the distributor here in Australia), so I've just been reading the manual, and thinking about how I want to do things. But looking at this setup you have, and the amount of inputs on the back, I'm struggling to understand how you're able to use all this stuff. I was under the impression that to use something like just one of those ampero switches, you would have to use both exp inputs, like this:
The Ampero Control midi controller (4 switches) has two more TRS inputs that support two more 2 button switches. I am running all 8 switches off the Ampero via midi. On my AM4 I am only running one of the pedal inputs for the Volume pedal, so technically I could still run one more single button FS off the AM4 if needed it. On the Ampero Control all of those switches also support hold functions to send a second command if you want, but use is limited. For example, on one of those external switches, I am using for Tap Tempo, but if you hold the switch it goes to Tuner mode. The Ampero Control also has full midi in/out/through to hook up multiple midi devices. The only thing I can't do is get midi clock sent to HX One since the AM4 is will not send Midi clock.
Ah, ok, I saw multiple things going in and out of the midi controller, but didn't know what was what, obviously. So that's plugged into the midi in, what about the midi features of the HX One that you're using? How is that accessed?
For the HX One, the AM4 is sending effect preset load midi commands as needed by scene for AM4 presets. I also have one of the Ampero footswitches set to cycle through like 5 presets on the HX One to load as needed, and then I can turn it on/off via the HX One directly. I could set up to load and be on already but don't really need that at this time and it would add more complexity. What is cool about the HX One is it has that flux second fs feature too so I have set as a second version of the preset. Like on the KoT I have both the yellow and red channels of the real pedal.
Thanks for taking the time to lay that out for me. I have to admit, I don't really understand what you're doing with the HX One yet, I've never done anything with midi at all, but that's ok. If I do buy one in the future, I'll worry about it then.
Any concerns with noise, tone suck or latency with the HX One?
I was worried about the noise issue I read about, but mine has not shown that problem and I am running it in true Bypass and haven't experienced any issues with tone suck yet. Each preset has its own noise gate, but I keep that kind of high and out of the way. I hav e only had it a few days and haven't used it live yet but seems like its going to work for my use, which is the one off effect.
How do you setup that Airstep to control AM4? I tried to google but no video tutorial anywhere...
First I needed to make (or buy) a MIDI DIN to 3.5mm connector to go from the AirStep to the AM4. The AM4 will see Program Change and Continuous Controller messages at its midi input. The AirStep app is very configurable. Programming it depends on exactly what you want to do with it and the AM4.
