Maestro to support double-presses and press-and-hold

Midi Maestro Feature Requests
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This will increase the commands of each page to 18 :slight_smile:

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We do not plan on adding hold functions to the MIDI Maestro. There is means to implement a press versus release feature, so you can hold the button down for something like a transition and let go once the transition state is over for example. But as far as a hold feature, that is not something we have in mind.

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Thanks for the reply.

Or can we press 2 buttons at once to select the mode?

For example,
press the 2 left buttons to switch to Custom mode.
press the 2 center buttons to switch to Aero mode.
press the 2 right buttons to switch to BB mode.

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With the latest firmware (version 1.07) you can hold the lower left and middle button down to access the modes screen just like pressing the mode button. However you need to the app to update the firmware easily. We’re finalizing the firmware update function in the app now. Stay tuned!

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Just following-up the issue of pedal presses. Is there scope / intention to be able to fulfil the following scenario?

  1. Press pedal (desired MIDI message is sent).
  2. Pedal is kept in down position (MM waits)
  3. Release pedal (a different MIDI message is sent, if desired)?

This would add great versatility!

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This is what the MM already does! You can program it to send different commands on the press and release if you have the app (available on android, coming soon to iOS) by creating a custom mode.

We just do not see ourselves complicating it beyond that point.

To be clear, we will not be implementing double presses or holds on the MM so I will tag “considered”, thank you for the feedback!

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I took the Maestro because of its size, layout and spacing between footswitches, but now I find myself limited without the ability to assign midi commands using double-presses and/or press-and-hold. This would be a really great upgrade!

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What, it is not possible to initiate a repeated transmission by pressing and holding the button?
That is an essential feature for me.
I have just ordered an MM to replace my Ampero Control on the HX Stomp. The Ampero seemed too limited to me, but it can do that without any problems (scrolling presets up & down with acceleration when pressing longer).
Oh, I’ll be curious to see if that really doesn’t work… that would be a shame, because I thought the MM could do so many things.
It seems to be such a trivial feature to implement in firmware.
Maybe it works in the meantime, but I couldn’t find anything about it.

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Unfortunately they are just tap and release :no_mouth: No hold option with nor without acceleration :sweat_smile:

But you could buy an expression pedal and connect that to MM, and maybe that could be used for fast scrolling :thinking: I haven’t tried myself :face_with_peeking_eye:

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thanks, haha - an expression pedal to scroll through 128 presets, that would be very fast, I wonder if my HX-Stomp can still keep up :smile: it’s worth a try.
And how precisely do i catch a single preset?
But it’s a shame that this option still doesn’t exist when it would be so easy to implement.
I could connect a Midi-Bomebox in between, which would generate the repeats when I press the buttons for a longer time. Since the MM sends press and release separately, all this is also possible externally. But what an effort.

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MM expression pedal functionality supports also incremental commands, but I’m not sure if it helps or not :sweat_smile:

One benefit is that you can scroll all the BB folders, even if there are more than 128 :relieved:

It just requires to use the re-adjust-expression-pedal feature of MM, which requires you to press two MM buttons. And why is that bad? Well the last time I tested that it sent the press commands of those two buttons :face_with_peeking_eye:

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:smile: I will try all this out as soon as my MM arrives.

I can’t really imagine how useful it would be to use incremental behavior with a pedal. After all, a pedal has an absolute position, is not an encoder and has clear end points for the movement.

What if the pedal is in the lowest position and I just want to scroll down the list? Then I first have to move it upwards, but then I also scroll upwards… :face_with_peeking_eye:? Let’s see how it actually works - maybe my package will arrive tomorrow.

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MM has solution for this, which I tried to explain here:

So you can move the exp-pedal without scrolling up/down :yum: Just that it has downsides :sweat_smile: This:

So it might work if you take that into consideration :relieved: (e.g. by using only release commands/redirect on the two buttons)

I believe this is explained somewhere in the manual :blush: … It took a while but it’s called “clutch mode” in the manual :yum: Mentioned in pages 4 and 11 :relieved:

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ah, OK, at least they’ve thought about it :smiley: Sounds a bit inconvenient for the purpose, but I’ll check it all out. I’m very curious!

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My MM has arrived and everything is working fine, but my first impression is ambivalent. I managed to create a custom mode for my HXStomp - but is it really normal that you have to accept a transmission time of 4 minutes for every small change to midi commands or texts and then have to restart the device every time? That can’t be right! What am I doing wrong? … OK, these questions don’t really belong here, I’ll keep researching. Maybe I’ll send it back.

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I haven’t timed, but it is slow :grimacing: And I think the Bluetooth connection for the app doesn’t work without restart :no_mouth:

I haven’t tried other midi controllers, but for me the Bluetooth was a blessing :smiling_face: With that I found MobileSheets :yum:

Now I’m planning to have wired connection between MM and iPad (due to Bluetooth delay) so if my MM some day breaks etc then I might try some other midi controller :thinking: But for now I’ll manage with the downsides of MM :relieved:

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I’m still somehow a bit undecided :smiley:

Yes, I’ve timed it, it’s just over 4 minutes for a transmission.

I’ll try to solve the hold and automatic scrolling with my Bomebox (Midi Translator Pro - define delayed multiple repeat of the event there - stop the repetition with the release of the button), then the BomeBox will finally be used at all.
And now I’ve already got all the essential stuff for the HX stomp mode in there, which took forever because of the transmission waiting times. But once it’s in, you don’t touch the configuration very often.
So I’ll probably keep it after all…if that works with the Bome Box.

Oh, and the displays are too bright for me, but I can stick dimmer foil over them, I’ve got some lying around somewhere.