Adinfinitum said:
Still not sure I follow.
I have three banks of 128 programs on the Axe-Fx. With my Voodoo Floor Board, I can use the bottom row of IAs to switch between four presets and then use the Bank Up and Down to go through the 128 presets of Bank A.
If I want preset 256 on the Axe, I have to use the rotary to dial it in (not with the MFC).
With the MPC I think you mean the MFC, can I access all 380 presets via IAs (IA is not the best term to be used here as IA normally are are to switch on/off effects within the preset) ? In other words, set up IAs (I'd better say foowswitches) to send midi bank up and down to access Banks B and C as well?
Yes, but without any MIDI programming, see below
You don't have to program a lot of things, just a map, technically a look up table.
It's all the the manual but I'll try to explain in other words.
On the MFC you have a limited :lol: number of switches, I mean they are only 21
while you can have many more presets (128 on the MFC).
In other to access more than 21 "things" you have to use mappings (the reality, for preset selection, it that you can use up to 15 of the 21 switches, see fig. 4.1).
Here you have the flexibility to select the bank size. If you set bank size = 5 (the default one), the bottom row is for selecting presets, the upper rows are for IA (effects on/off). When bank size is 5, only footswitches 1-5 can be used to select presets. So to access all the 128 MFC presets you have to bank up/down (INCR/DECR), and then select the preset with footswitches 1-5.
Example : to access MFC preset 5 you have to bank up once and then press switch 1.
(note: by default presets are numbered 0..127, so on the 1st bank you have presets 0..4 and preset number 5 is the 1st preset of the 2nd bank, see 14.3 pg. 69)
OK, now we have selected
MFC preset 5, what this corresponds too ?
In order to assign the
Axe-Fx preset number e.g. 297 to
MFC preset 5 you have to program the map (lookup table), refer to 12.4.2 of the Manual.
For the the example, you must have
Now when you select the MFC preset 5 you will activate Axe-Fx preset 297.
In order to simplify things, there are other capabilities on the MFC, e.g. the Default Bank.
If you use Default Bank there is a one-to-one relationship between MFC and Axe-Fx presets.
How can it be done ? The Axe-Fx has 384 presets!
OK, you select which is the Axe-FX Default Bank (A/B/C) with 12.4.1, the rest goes as this
If you selected Bank A -> MFC preset 0..127 = Axe-Fx preset 0..127
If you selected Bank B -> MFC preset 0..127 = Axe-Fx preset 128..255
If you selected Bank C -> MFC preset 0..127 = Axe-Fx preset 256..383
As shipped, on MFC default bank is used and Bank A is selected so there is a real one-to-one relation with Axe-Fx presets. So, as shipped, you can't access Axe-Fx presets above 127.
I think you can also move your most used Axe-Fx presets to Axe-Fx bank A (with the editor) and keep the default (factory) MFC programming, but in my opinion it's very easy to program the map.
I don't know if I have been clear, but I'm not mother-tongue and... my MFC is not here (scheduled for next week from G66). Take into account the only MIDI device I've used up to now is... the Midisport 2x2
I use to program the Axe-Fx! :shock:
Taking into account this, I consider the MFC-101 Owner's Manual a very, very good manual as I had no doubt in reading it (and I've read it in small batches while going to work). As usual, Cliff & co. made a very good job, I suggest to read it at least twice. If you are a MIDI/programmer newbie may be the 1st reading will let you some doubts, just write them down, they will be clear on 2nd reading, and you can have help from the Forum for any eventual obscure side...
