Create Scenes Using Presets and Sysex.

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Hello,

I have a pedal board that will respond to Sysex on/off messages. Midi Designer does a great job of sending, via super controls, Sysex messages to achieve this. I would like to create scenes in Midi Designer to send to the pedal board (some pedals off, others on). When I program 'Presets' from the 'more' section it switches the state of the button, from on to off, but does not necessarily send the message to the pedalboard. It also seems like the pedal board reacts differently each time the same Midi Designer preset is selected. What seems to be happening is that the Sysex messages get sent at the same time and some don't get through. The result is that if, for example, I send a message to turn on slots 3,4,6,7. Only slot 3 and 4 will turn on. 

The rest of the midi functionality in the Pedal Board via Midi Designer works great so I'm assuming it's a programming shortcoming by me and not a hardware issue.  Anyone out there know how to make this kind of scene change via the presets work consistently? Or, a different method of sending scenes messages? 

Thanks                                                                                                                                                                                   

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You have to study the MIDI messages that are going out, which the Log is good for. Or you could connect to a Mac and use Snoize MIDI monitor. So that's one thing of two. The second is that you could try the legacy throttle. Or was it the vintage throttle? Here is it now: http://mididesigner.com/qa/5292

Circle back and let me know what happens, please. Also note that you can take a screenshot by hitting a chord with the home button and the on/off button.

Thanks!
Dan

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Thanks so much for the reply!

We solved the issue in a different way, although I suspect your answer is also a correct one. We were using a wired midi interface, one of the cheap ones. We switched to Wireless Bluetooth (which is pretty cool) and it works fantastic! Much faster then the wired version and the scene select is immediate, vs a slight delay using the wired version. We are up and running!  

I'm going to check out your suggestion as well, we won't always be wireless.

thanks again

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Thanks, great to hear, good luck!