Toggle on/off switch...

[AngusHastie]

I want to use a midi footpedal (which sends a momentary midi note-on) to toggle a sequence patch on and off. Anyone know the best way to build a simple toggle switch that responds to the keyboard gate and can be used for this sort of thing?
Cheers,
Angus

[Antimon]

I would use the "1" output of a binary counter as in the attached patch.

Is it possible to have the midi pedal send a midi control command instead? Then you could just assign the midi command to the button of a momentary toggle switch...

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[AngusHastie]

oh, of course, yes, that's the answer - cc rather than note-on. thanks

[AngusHastie]

Problem - if I assign a midi control # to a toggling switch, sending the control value (from an FCB1010 control pedal) only switches the switch on but does not toggle it on and off
How can I get it to behave as a toggle rather than just an on signal?

[Tim Kleinert]

Just patch a momentary switch into a Set-Reset flipflop. See attached patch. (I included resetting the flipflop at patch loading, so the toggle status is always 'off' when you load the patch. But this is optional.) Then assign the switch to your food pedal CC#.

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[jksuperstar]

Instead of the switch in Tim's patch, you could also use the MIDI CtlRecv module. Then use the "Recv" output, not the value output. No matter what value is sent on the pedal, the toggle with flip between on<->off with each press.

I like this method, because it makes it easy to program the FCB, and allows me to use the same FCB patch for multiple G2 patches, without worrying about exact CC values as well as CC#'s.

Also, the FCB can toggle between two values itself, if you have EEPROM version 2.2 or later (I think). I have 2.4 right now, and the toggle feature is there. However, it is much easier to put the modules in the G2 than it is to program the FCB

[AngusHastie]

Thanks!
I presume you mean that you replace the momentary switch with a control receive module, linked to a flip flop like in Tim's patch?
Also, can you download new software for the FCB?
Cheers, Angus

[deknow]

...also, the fcb1010 can send alternating cc value on each press of the same button. this is good for toggling!

you can download os updates for the 1010, and there are also some "user modified" os which looks quite useful with the nord. the best place to find this stuff is on the fcb1010 yahoogroup.

deknow

[deknow]

jk, i should have read your post more carefully so as not to repeate what you said.

deknow

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[AngusHastie]

thanks, all. I'm still surprised that the Toggle Switch doesn't...well...toggle! I would have expected it just to change its state with each high signal received, but there you go...I'm sure there's some perfectly good reason.

[jamos]

[jksuperstar]

There are two types of switches: the momentary and the toggle. In theory, you should be able to set the toggle type switch to a CC messege, and each time it gets sent a non-zero value, the switch should toggle. It may be worth looking into whether it reacts to specific values, or just the fact a CC# was sent (just like the Rcv output from the ctlsend module).

The program you have in the FCB might also be doing something funky, like sending high value when pressed, and low value when depressed. I never dove too deep into the FCB to know everything it could do, just what I needed. But you might try a MIDI Monitor such as the one in MIDIOX, to actually see what messeges the FCB is sending out.

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