Midi Novice seeking help please

Rkphilpot

Hello all
I'm looking at dipping into Midi 
I want to use midi to program my Digitech Whammy to reproduce Map of the problematique. I believe it uses Oct +1, Oct -1 and on/off.
My question is, can I program this sequence into a midi controller and then use that live? 
I want to be able to press a button and it starts that sequence at the tempo of the track for me. 
I was looking at controllers Morningstar MC 3 looks good but will take recommendation on what will do this for me.
Thank you good people

english_bob

Rkphilpot said:

Hello all
I'm looking at dipping into Midi 
I want to use midi to program my Digitech Whammy to reproduce Map of the problematique. I believe it uses Oct +1, Oct -1 and on/off.
My question is, can I program this sequence into a midi controller and then use that live? 
I want to be able to press a button and it starts that sequence at the tempo of the track for me. 
I was looking at controllers Morningstar MC 3 looks good but will take recommendation on what will do this for me.
Thank you good people

I would guess not. I think you probably could do it with a DAW- Ableton etc. by mapping the MIDI changes to a "recording" (that wouldn't need to have anything else in it), but that's way outside my wheelhouse.

What you could do with a pedalboard MIDI controller is assign three different footswitches to switch the Whammy pedal between modes....aaand I've just listened to the track. Never mind.

english_bob

OK, new idea. I use a Boss ES-5, and it has a function (Assign) that allows it to send MIDI CC data constantly (like turning a knob in real time, or in your case, moving the Whammy pedal treadle). You can set it- I think- to send effectively a square wave LFO- minimum value, maximum value, minimum again- in tempo.

That would allow you to do one of the octave shifts (+1 or -1) with the pedal, but by playing octaves on your guitar you could create the impression that it was doing both- play a note an octave up and a -1 octave shift on the pedal puts you back at the first note you played.

I don't know whether other MIDI controllers let you do the same thing, but I suspect they do.