I know I can pan input with my foot using Mixer2, but I’m looking for a quicker way during live looping, ideally using an expression pedal. The Aeros and the Midi Maestro both have jacks for that. Is this possible somehow, with or without the MM??
I tried a pedal in the Aeros, it works, but you’ll have to select the left or right channel with the MM or into mixer 2, and select the “main input” for the pedal if I remember correctly.
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Thanks. However, when I set expression pedal to control Main input level and select the left channel only in Mixer2, the pedal moves both channels simultaneously (unlike the control wheel, which moves just the selected channel). So no luck so far using an expression pedal for panning on the Aeros itself.
So the application for this is limited to reset input volume for both channels in one action. So to pan and then reset pan you would:
- Long hold for Menu
- Select Mixer 2
- Select channel (assuming they are split)
- Use control wheel to decrease channel volume (aka pan to the other side)
- Press Expression pedal once to align both channels to desired input volume.
I need to look into how this can be simplified using the Midi Maestro.
I gonna take a look when I more time !
I think I must have confused it with the loop decay rate. You’re right, my apologies.
But there is another way to have it more simple, but not with the pedal
Just using the midi on the MM
CC 11 left and CC 12 right in toggle mode
You set cc 11 value 0 as press with cc12 value113 as release
You set cc 12 value 0 as press with cc 11 value 113 as release (toggle)
so you can switch between the 2 channel (notice there is a little cut)
But will this mean that I switch between the two input channels? Like 100% Left an 0% Right or vice versa?
That would not be panning to me. Typically, I would do:
Take 1. A rythm guitar 100% Left and 70% Right.
Take 2. A second track 70% Left and 100% Right.
Take 3. A 3rd track panned dead center.
Ideally, this could be done with some gradual control like an expression pedal. But it might be more accurate to control this accoring to a predefined value, for instance 70/100 as mentionede above.
With an expression pedal that could be:
Take 1: toe down,
Take 2: toe up,
Take 3: some middle position.
Hope this is clear.
Yeah I know what you mean /want but not possible with the pedal (maybe Brennan can change the game?)
If you want 7O% you can replace the value 0 with 70 and vice versa
and use a second switch for the middle position both on 50%
With a MIDI expression pedal and a cheap pedalboard-friendly computer like a Ksoloti or Raspberry Pi + Pisound you can do whatever you like. Have the pedal send CCs to the computer, process the incoming values according to a complex algorithm of your own design, and send different outputs out as different CCs simultaneously. Plus you can use these computers for other fun stuff like automating your Aeros. There’s a massive learning curve of course.