Secondary function of IASwitch (MFC-101)

[Konstantin]

WISH: Secondary function of IASwitch (MFC-101)

It would be very good to have a secondary function at the IASwitch on MFC-101. As far as I know now MFC not support alternate function for IASwitch. The best option for me is the ability to change the X-Y state of the effects assigned to the main function. For example. Button 6 = Drive 1 (X-state) = solid green LED. Hold the button 6 = Drive 1 (Y-state) = flashing green LED
What do you think about this?
And question to Clif : as far as possible what I wrote above? Thanks

 

[lqdsnddist]

Seems like it could get problematic during a performance, trying to tell if its solid or flashing, holding for too long and getting the wrong thing etc

I'm not an expert on scenes, but I believe you can set it up so that a scene change can change the X/Y state of multiple blocks with one press, so instead of trying to manually go and hold a button for a given block, you could just tap a scene switch and achieve the same thing, with less margin for error

 

[dbun]

The FX8 (and most likely AX8) does something similar. The good thing is that it has two LEDs above the switch to indicate X or Y state, but the operating principle is the same in that you push and hold to toggle between the two.

I know that you can toggle X and Y states with scenes, but the issue there is that you have to predefine what each scene is. This is fine for a specific song, but sometimes I just want to pull up one preset and jam and that's where having the flexibility to toggle anything as I wish is great. I just hate having to assign a separate IA to toggle X/Y state as it seems like a waste.