Re: Tech 21 MIDI Moose

[Jojo Hahn <jojo@jojohahn.com>]

Per!

Thanks for your recommendations. It allows you to access five buttons simultaneously, not use them simultaneously. In Mainstage it pops up in the MIDI monitor as something like "P 92" or whatever corresponding PC button I'm pressing on the MIDI Moose. I tried the MIDIpipe way and I attempted a couple things to convert the PC, but it was slightly confusing. I set the in to "program change", but it doesn't give me the option of a PC#. I set the out to the CC# I desired. I set my MIDI in as the MIDI pedal and the out as MIDIpipe's output. I also tried a few different in/out combinations, but I couldn't get my software to recognize it as going through or being changed by MIDIpipe. It still only recognized the patch changes. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Jojo Hahn

I checked Tech 21's web page for the Moose and it seems it sends out five simultaneous MIDI Program Change events upon recalling a Moose program. So that's what you have to work with.

Mainstage reacts to an incoming MIDI Program Change by changing to the patch you have assigned the corrsponding number. I have never tried to send in five patch change commands simultaneously but my guess is that Mainstage will then randomly chose one of the five assigned patches.

If my assumptions on the Moose are correct (manufacturer's web site did not provide enough detailed information) your first task will be to either reprogram the Moose to send just one MIDI PC or set up Mobius to recall a patch for just one of the five received PCs. That should do for patch changing. Next task for you would be to find a way to use MIDI Program Change commands to control parameters in Mainstage hosted looping plug-ins. You could achieve this by using an application as Midi Pipe to convert certain MIDI PC's into Note data or CC's that work for what you have in mind.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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