Ugly Bunny
Power User
BLUF: The initial value of an external controller seems to be being ignored after a value that differs from that initial value is sent.
FW 4.00b5
My setup is having the virtual capo in a preset called "Downtune." The intent is to have a preset that defaults to 1 half step down. Unfortunately, I have one song that needs to be 2 half steps down that I wish to use the same preset for. The pitch block's Virtual Capo's "Shift" parameter is attached to a modifier (modifier 2, if it matters), attached to External 4, which is assigned to a MIDI CC. The External Control 4's initial value is 47% (which is 1 half step down). So the expected behaviour is that anytime the preset is called up WITHOUT any additional commands to shift the pitch, it will be exactly 1 half step down. Anytime I call up the preset with additional MIDI commands to shift the pitch, it will do so, and then the next song without any additional pitch-shifitng commands means it will be back at 1 half step down. But that's not what's happening.
SCENARIO:
Is this a bug that should be reported? Can anyone think of what I may be doing wrong?
FW 4.00b5
My setup is having the virtual capo in a preset called "Downtune." The intent is to have a preset that defaults to 1 half step down. Unfortunately, I have one song that needs to be 2 half steps down that I wish to use the same preset for. The pitch block's Virtual Capo's "Shift" parameter is attached to a modifier (modifier 2, if it matters), attached to External 4, which is assigned to a MIDI CC. The External Control 4's initial value is 47% (which is 1 half step down). So the expected behaviour is that anytime the preset is called up WITHOUT any additional commands to shift the pitch, it will be exactly 1 half step down. Anytime I call up the preset with additional MIDI commands to shift the pitch, it will do so, and then the next song without any additional pitch-shifitng commands means it will be back at 1 half step down. But that's not what's happening.
SCENARIO:
- Song A Simply goes to the preset which is defaulted to 1 half step down.
- Song B goes to the preset but tells the Virtual Capo to drop 2 half steps using the CC attached to the external controller that modifies the VC.
- Song C goes to a different preset altogether. Let's forget song C.
- Song D goes to the downtuned preset, no additional commands to control the pitch, yet the pitch block is still dropped by 2 half steps, even though the default is set up so it only drops by 1 half step.
- Song A (remember him?) now goes to the preset and it's again still dropped by 2 half steps.
- Song E goes to the preset and specifies to drop only 1 half step and it works (even though this should be the default)
- Song A goes to the preset again and it's back to being only a half step down.
- I never save the preset after dropping 2 half steps.
- As it sits, I currently have to manually tell the preset to drop 1 half step anytime after I go to the song that drops it 2 half steps.
- The External Controller is defaulted to 47% (1 half step down).
- Any song that specifies via CC to drop only 1 half step works after the 2 half step down song; any song that simply gos to that preset (assuming the default to be 1 half step down) is now 2 half steps down.
- I could always make a separate preset just for this song so I wouldn't have to worry about the MIDI/External Controller/Modifier wonkiness, but this works flawlessly in my Axe Fx III.
Is this a bug that should be reported? Can anyone think of what I may be doing wrong?
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