Conley Shepherd
Experienced
Hi Everyone, something is not sitting right with me with my setup and I am not able to figure it out. My goal is to select the patches with my HD500X and inc/dec the scene selection with external foot switches hooked up to the AF3. I have an HD500X setup for the AF3 controller. For the most part it works as expected until I try to set the scene increment and decrement when mapping is active.
I have 2 external foot switches hooked up to the AF3. I set the switches to increment and decrement the scenes outside of the HD500X control and that setup function works on all patches as expected.
My HD500X is in footswitch mode(all 8 buttons active for fx select). I was under the impression, have to find this reference again, that when you have the HD500X patch group of 4 up for selection that no midi foot switch or controllers are active and only the ABCD buttons are supposed to be active for the patch select only. So when I select a patch from that group of 4 patches(1A,1B,1C,1D) buttons ABCD should only select the patch and not transfer any switch/controller information. The ABCD buttons do select the patch, but depending on the scene inc/dec settings and the mapping settings, other artifacts are resulting.
1. When the AF3 scene INC/DEC is set with no mapping set for the HD500X buttons, all of the patches are selected without issue and the scene inc/dec function works as expected.
2. When no scene inc/dec are set (NONE) and the HD500X buttons are mapped for FX, patch changes and FX selection work as expected too and there is no scene inc/dec activity or option set.
When I set both the scene selection inc/dec AND have mapping set for the AF3 FX, I get results in the patch selection that are not desired. And this is where I am having trouble understanding the logic for the patch switching.
With the scene inc/dec set and mapping active, when switching patches by the HD500X, scenes are changed and fx get active from their bypass state as saved in the patch. When changing the patches from the value knob, the patch changes behave as expected.
All of my HD500X patch selection issues are related to defining the scene inc/dec while mapping is active. If I have inc/dec set to none, there are no issues with the HD500X patch selection and everything works except for the scene selection.
I am wondering if it is a bug in the firmware or a specified limitation for the scene inc/dec being set when mapping is active. If that is in the user manual, I couldn't find it. I thought an external switch would remove the possibility from the HD500X as being the culprit, but that is not the case and it seems related 100% how the AF3 processes the patch changes with scene inc/dec set to something other than none and the midi sent from the HD500X.
Any thoughts and help will be greatly appreciated.
I have 2 external foot switches hooked up to the AF3. I set the switches to increment and decrement the scenes outside of the HD500X control and that setup function works on all patches as expected.
My HD500X is in footswitch mode(all 8 buttons active for fx select). I was under the impression, have to find this reference again, that when you have the HD500X patch group of 4 up for selection that no midi foot switch or controllers are active and only the ABCD buttons are supposed to be active for the patch select only. So when I select a patch from that group of 4 patches(1A,1B,1C,1D) buttons ABCD should only select the patch and not transfer any switch/controller information. The ABCD buttons do select the patch, but depending on the scene inc/dec settings and the mapping settings, other artifacts are resulting.
1. When the AF3 scene INC/DEC is set with no mapping set for the HD500X buttons, all of the patches are selected without issue and the scene inc/dec function works as expected.
2. When no scene inc/dec are set (NONE) and the HD500X buttons are mapped for FX, patch changes and FX selection work as expected too and there is no scene inc/dec activity or option set.
When I set both the scene selection inc/dec AND have mapping set for the AF3 FX, I get results in the patch selection that are not desired. And this is where I am having trouble understanding the logic for the patch switching.
With the scene inc/dec set and mapping active, when switching patches by the HD500X, scenes are changed and fx get active from their bypass state as saved in the patch. When changing the patches from the value knob, the patch changes behave as expected.
All of my HD500X patch selection issues are related to defining the scene inc/dec while mapping is active. If I have inc/dec set to none, there are no issues with the HD500X patch selection and everything works except for the scene selection.
I am wondering if it is a bug in the firmware or a specified limitation for the scene inc/dec being set when mapping is active. If that is in the user manual, I couldn't find it. I thought an external switch would remove the possibility from the HD500X as being the culprit, but that is not the case and it seems related 100% how the AF3 processes the patch changes with scene inc/dec set to something other than none and the midi sent from the HD500X.
Any thoughts and help will be greatly appreciated.