SID as floor pedal??

[Jaicen]

Does anyone know if it's possible to customise the SID firmware to allow direct access to presets arranged in banks??

I want to select a bank using the menu encoder, and then have direct access to 4 presets within that bank from four individual large footswitches. I could live with having a pair of bank up/down switches, but the menu encoder seems like the easiest option.

Anybody care to comment?

[ris8_allo_zen0]

Maybe connecting the footswitches to DINs, then write a small function that sends a program change to the firmware itself? (using USER_MPROC_NotifyReceivedEvent...)

[Therezin]

The programming side of things I have no idea of, but as for having an encoder or buttons for bank up/down, i'd recommend a pair of buttons if it's going to be on the floor - it means you don't have to bend down to the floor to change your presets when you're playing live.

[Wilba]

Interesting idea, Jaicen...

It's not that hard to code... but I'm not sure exactly how you define a "bank" or "preset".

MB-SID v1 can store 128 patches in a "BankStick", and you can have multiple "BankSticks" which you can switch between.

It's pretty easy to have four switches change the current patch to #1 through #4... and then another pair of switches to shift the "bank of four" i.e. the four switch assignments become patch #5 to #8, #9 to 12, etc. Then you just organise your patches on that BankStick into groups of four.