Hello Everybody!!
After receiving my third "factor" box a few days ago, the Space, i thought i should experiment with midi controlling as also my JVM is midi enabled. As a controller i thoughout i could use for my initial testing a pod xt live which covers most of my needs as it can send both program changes on the low row swithches and a stompbox mode with cc messages on the upper row.
My goal is to create 4 presets, one clean, one rhythm, one lead and a special one (probably a evh style with flangers etc).
So today after work (and after spending about 2 hours of search :P) i managed to find a midi cable to make some tests.
I connected my jvm with pod via midi and in no time had it programmed, it was way easier than I expected. Then I used tha same cable to modfactor to test it and quickly I managed to program preset changes and using an upper row switch to active and bypass the fx. Pretty much all that i needed.
But i have some questions as i could not find the answers in either manuals.
1) I am correct to assume (i don't have a second midi cable to test it at the moment) that to change presets on all factors at once (for example all three to go to 1:1) have to set the desired preset of each pedal to the same program change midi number that corresponds with the midi controller's switch (for example #88)?
2) In my tests with modfactor then i changed presets, the selected sound was always active, is there a way to state the desired initial default response of the pedal? for example, in my "clean" preset, when selected, i want to have modfactor preset 1:2 active, the timefactor 1:1 preset bypassed and space preset 13 active and then if I want some delay to use the dedicated switch in the upper row of pod to activate it. Is there a way to achieve that?
3) And a last question, the upper row of pod switches have a led when active, I have set to activate/bypass the pedal with the corresponding switch cc message in RCV CTL – BYP and works fine in activating/bypassing the fx preset but with a slight annoyance as it works opposite of the led… when controller's led is active… pedal is bypassed… and the opposite. The pod manual states that the switch has a 0 – 127 min max state like this 0~63=Off ; 64~127=On but on the modfactor the BYP command does not provide min and max values that I can see so to set them accordingly.
Thank you in advance for your answers!
Stelios.
