Midi Block bug?

[Perrymason]

I'm a newbie and a Fractal virgin. About one week ago I got my hands on the FX8.
It's a great piece of machinery and I'm building my new rig around the FX8.

I use the FX8 into a DV Mark Multiamp and a Suhr Badger 35. Sounds amazing IMO.

When I started to program some presets I ran into a problem.
I want to use one perticular preset on the Multiamp, create two Midi blocks in my FX8 preset
and use midi CC to turn effects on/off on the Multiamp. This works fine.
However, when I created two different scenes within my FX8 I ran into trouble.
In Scene 1 I have the midi blocks off.
In Scene 2 I saved the scene with the midi blocks on, in order to engage a delay and a chorus
on the Multiamp by changing scene. This doesn't work.
Even though the indicator light is on there is no effect turned on.
I have to manually turn the midi block off and then back on again.
Help, anyone?

 

[yek]

Are you on the latest firmware?

Are you using the correct MIDI channel in the MIDI blocks to control your DV Amp?

 

[Perrymason]

Yes, I'm using the correct channel and I have the latest Firmware.
I know this because I can manually turn an effect on/off on the Multiamp with the Midi Block.
However, when I try to setup a Scene with the Multiamp effect on (in order to go from i.e. a dry to a wet sound in one click) it doesn't work. In other words, no CC message is sent from the FX8 to the Multiamp unless I physically press the button dedicated to the midi block.

 

[Fatjac]

Hi I have been trying to do something very similar too. I want to control 2 amps and a T C Electrinics G Major 2 with each patch and scene. What I would like is for scene and patch changes to send out a midi message when selected. However I have come the conclusion that whereas the scene change can be programmed to send out a midi message each midi block has be physically selected with a foot action. It does not seem possible to program a block to be on or off on selection of a scene change..

If you are interested in this being an option please see the FX8 wish list entry that I have made.

 

[Perrymason]

Hi I have been trying to do something very similar too. I want to control 2 amps and a T C Electrinics G Major 2 with each patch and scene. What I would like is for scene and patch changes to send out a midi message when selected. However I have come the conclusion that whereas the scene change can be programmed to send out a midi message each midi block has be physically selected with a foot action. It does not seem possible to program a block to be on or off on selection of a scene change..

If you are interested in this being an option please see the FX8 wish list entry that I have made.

Thanks for your input.
I really hope this midi CC issue can be resolved in a future firmware update. I own a Musicomlab EFX Mk IV.
It can send midi PC to the FX8, PC to the Multiamp and CC to the Multiamp simultaneously. However, I'm trying to downsize my pedalboard and I got rid of a couple of Strymon pedals in order to fund my FX8 purchase.
If the FX8 can control the Multiamp it would make my life so much easier.
I checked out the wish list. Lots of good ideas there.