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Source Audio Sorcerers Society (S.A.S.S) Part 3

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jwr said:
Can anyone tell me how many devices that the midi controller will control at once? Will it do midi for other brands? Eventide, Strymon, Meris, Chase Bliss...etc? Or just for Source Audio. Probably a dumb question, I know, but I'm in the market and need info.
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The Soleman can send up to 16 MIDI PC messages simultaneously, allowing you to make patch changes for up to 16 devices on different MIDI channels. If you're sending mixed MIDI messages, it can send about 11 simultaneously. It can be used with any brand that uses standard MIDI spec.
 
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So I just picked up a Source audio Dual Expression Pedal and I have a Hub And it has been updated . So I hooked the Expression to the Hub and push the scan Button and the green light flashes . Now my Aftershock my Mercury and My Lunar Are hooked to the hub as well but the Expression does nothing everything else works and I am going to hook up the hub to the MIDI on my Boss ES-8 But I want to get everything else working first. I am a MIDI Newbie and have no clue what I am doing with that. But first getting the expression to work with the 3 pedals I have now. Also all 3 one series pedals have been updated. Any help is appreciated
 
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Nighttrain1127 said:
So I just picked up a Source audio Dual Expression Pedal and I have a Hub And it has been updated . So I hooked the Expression to the Hub and push the scan Button and the green light flashes . Now my Aftershock my Mercury and My Lunar Are hooked to the hub as well but the Expression does nothing everything else works and I am going to hook up the hub to the MIDI on my Boss ES-8 But I want to get everything else working first. I am a MIDI Newbie and have no clue what I am doing with that. But first getting the expression to work with the 3 pedals I have now. Also all 3 one series pedals have been updated. Any help is appreciated
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Hi, @Nighttrain1127. Here are a few things to check. Connect your Dual Expression Pedal to the 1/4" expression input of the HUB. Press the "Scan Devices" button on the HUB and confirm that the top LED of each of your pedals flashes in response. Use the following expression mapping method for each pedal:

Press the control input button so that the top LED is not lit.
Hold down the control input button until the top LED blinks a couple times, clearing previous mappings.
Press the control input button so that the top LED is lit.
Hold down the control input button until the top LED blinks constantly.
Move the expression pedal over your desired range of motion. Some people prefer to have "dead space" past heel and toe position; if this is you, don't move the expression pedal entirely to heel or toe position during calibration.
Press the bypass footswitch.
Set your desired minimum/maximum values for any or all of the knobs.
Press the bypass footswitch.
Set your desired maximum/minimum values for any or all of the knobs.
Press the bypass footswitch.

If you're still having trouble, please send a note to [email protected].
 
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I'm 99.9% sure the answer to this is yes, but just to confirm, if you have a Soleman you still need a Hub to talk to One Series pedals, correct?
 
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jwr said:
That would make sense because I don't think any of them have midi ports other than the Nemesis. I think the Hub allows for more presets too if I'm not mistaken? I have the older hub. Wonder if that would work.
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Well, my point is that I didn't think the Nemesis had the extra 1/8" TRRS ports to function as a Hub, though it does have one in and one out, I believe. And also...

FretNoMore said:
I believe there's only one hub version, it was just renamed.
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...this.
 
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Reflex Question (I guess I'll tag @nathannavarro):

I was experimenting with the random waveform to try to emulate a step phaser (using an H9 phaser with the shape set to expression). It got me like 85% of the way there, but the "randomness" seems to "pause" from time to time. Is this from the "randomness" giving back-to-back duplicate values or something else? It's a MIDI output, could it be an effect of the MIDI chain? (I have a lot of stuff in my MIDI chain and use the MIDI merge function of the Reflex.)
 
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Adamixoye said:
Reflex Question (I guess I'll tag @nathannavarro):

I was experimenting with the random waveform to try to emulate a step phaser (using an H9 phaser with the shape set to expression). It got me like 85% of the way there, but the "randomness" seems to "pause" from time to time. Is this from the "randomness" giving back-to-back duplicate values or something else? It's a MIDI output, could it be an effect of the MIDI chain? (I have a lot of stuff in my MIDI chain and use the MIDI merge function of the Reflex.)
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I ran the Reflex's random waveform into MIDI Monitor (Mac), and didn't see any values sent twice in a row. Of 1,000 values sent, I saw three cases where a sent value was one digit away from the previous value; this would likely be an unnoticeable change and sound like a pause with the phaser effect. Try connecting your Reflex directly to your H9 to see if it behaves any differently. That'll let us know for sure if messages are being dropped somewhere along the chain.
 
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nnavarro said:
I ran the Reflex's random waveform into MIDI Monitor (Mac), and didn't see any values sent twice in a row. Of 1,000 values sent, I saw three cases where a sent value was one digit away from the previous value; this would likely be an unnoticeable change and sound like a pause with the phaser effect. Try connecting your Reflex directly to your H9 to see if it behaves any differently. That'll let us know for sure if messages are being dropped somewhere along the chain.
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I didn't test it in the way you mentioned, but it behaved pretty differently (and more consistently/how I expect) when I unplugged the MIDI in, which is mostly MIDI Beat Clock from the Beat Buddy.
 

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