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our boards have a lot in common. Though I’d say that’s probably the first time I’ve seen a ventris into a nemesis and not the other way around.
The LED will only show the signal for a limited time after adjusting the threshold unless you set it to be permanently on in the global menu.
That makes sense - maybe watching the led indicator is making me perceive a change.
As far as I recall, midi over usb is not possible with the Aftershock. So either the Neuro hub or the Midi adapter. I use the hub with a dmc micro.pro for switching. Note that with the Midi adapter only the 6 presets internal to the Aftershock would be available. With the hub, you can include it in up to 128 scenes.
Oh wow so the C4 connects to the DMC with just a mini-USB to mini-USB? Is it mini-B USB? Just to reiterate lol
As mentioned in the two posts above yours- if you have a DMC gen3 controller with a 1/4" multi-jack then you don't even need USB, you can connect a 1/4" to 1/8" cable into the C4 (IME this is a far more robust/reliable connection than the USB). But yes to your question about USB Mini B cable, however I have found that not all USB Mini-Mini cables work for this purpose
Unfortunately, aftershock will not hold multiple presets like the C4. I think it is limited to three. I use the neuro hub mostly to save additional presets for it like I would on the internal memory of the C4. Their modulation pedals are the same as the aftershock in that regard. I am not certain why they did not “upgrade“ those pedals to have the memory, that the C4 and spectrum and ultra wave have.
I don't have a DMC yet; I've just been researching controllers for my C4. I was hoping to use the multi-jack for an expression pedal. So if USB cables are a crapshoot, would it be better to get either the ghost adapter or SA's adapter?
Ghost adaptor is a USB solution that DMC makes for use with other controllers (it turns a standard Midi controller output into a "USB Host" like a computer, which is what the C4 needs to see for USB control), so it is just a USB Mini solution that serves no use with a DMC controller that already has USB Host built-in. You can get a DMC controller (like the DMC-3XL) that has multiple 1/4" jacks so you can have both MIDI expression and control of the C4 without USB, and the bonus is that you also get a 3rd footswitch. Then again plenty of people use USB for controlling the C4 without issue- I was just stating my experience/preference (I find even angled Mini USB connections to not be sufficiently robust for a pedal that I am often swapping between boards- might be different if I was leaving the pedal and cable stationary on a fixed board though). If you do choose to use USB to control your C4, I highly recommend a USB A to Mini adaptor on either one or both ends so that you can unplug from the controller without removing the jack from the pedal when you need to attach the C4 or DMC USB to your computer for editing purposes. I have personally broken a few USB Mini cables AND a few circuit-board connections on different devices from plugging/unplugging or from other impact (I actually broke a Mini USB cable end from my C4 while it was traveling in my pedalboard case from some sort of impact, granted I had the cable routed fairly tightly on the board- just glad it broke the cable rather than the USB jack of the pedal).
Unfortunately with pedals the regular inclusion of MIDI control is a pretty new thing and seems to lack the same kind of standardization that more often exists with other music gear which is definitely frustrating. We are seeing the real-time development of this technology unfold in both pedals and pedalboard controllers as we speak (3+ decades after it became an expected inclusion in the synth world!). I have several MIDI pedals on my board from different manufacturers and most of them require slightly if not greatly different protocols and considerations when hooking up and programming. Fortunately companies like DMC and Morningstar (and hopefully soon, Mortrix) invest considerable work to keep up to date and compatible with as many of the different setups as possible with their pedalboard controllers
