Who here does any amp channel swtching via MIDI?

[mars_hall]

When I ask this, I do not mean who sends MIDI commands that are decoded by the amp at the end of the path, but rather are decoded by a device that converts the command to discrete TRS or TR signal levels that are plugged into the amp's 1/4" footswitch jacks.

I know Voodoo Lab makes the Control Switcher for this function, but was hoping to find a less expensive alternative.

Disaster Area Design makes a solution more geared to signaling pedals via smaller TRS cables that are not footswitch output jacks but rather replacements for the much larger 5 pin DIN connector.  In other words, the same MIDI command is transmitted through a smaller physical interconnect yet it  is still undecoded from a footswitch input point.

I would be OK with a solution that did the decode and put the signal levels out on a 5 pin DIN connector, as this is what my Groove Tube Trio preamp can accept as an alternatie to the the normal 1/4" jacks.  See the 5 pin DIN foot switch connector below.

What I am working on...  The intellifex processors are gone with a TC Electroni G-Major/2 in their place.

What do you know and/or use?  Thanks in advance

 

[JeffB]

Sorry, I cant help.
That all looks really great. I want stuff like that.

The thought that I had while I was reading your post was - if I had that sort of question, I would ask mars_hall.

[DetroitBlues]

You lost me at Midi...I just plug a guitar cable into an amp.

[mars_hall]

1 hour ago, DetroitBlues said:

You lost me at Midi...I just plug a guitar cable into an amp.

That is the same end game for me.  Getting there, though, is a little more involved.

Did an Amp and MIDI controller for my Sr Design Project while in undergrad at Purdue.  Everything was designed, fabricated, and coded from scratch, so I had to get familiar with the entire system in order to get the grade. 

I was kind of really hoping to shorten that cycle a bit with something closer to ready-made/off the shelf.

[Genericmusic]

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[TalismanRich]

If I want to change channels,  I have to unplug from the first and plug into the second.    No rack, no midi.  Just a pedal board and a chord to the amp.  I found the RP355 to be confusing... having a rack system would scamble my brain!

 

[bolero]

So you want to control everything in that rack with a MIDI controller? and the GT amp has no MIDI input?

try a MIDI to CV converter & hook it up between your controller & the GT amp

I'm assuming you want to save configurations on your main controller, then have it send commands to multiple rack units via MIDI

 

[mars_hall]

56 minutes ago, bolero said:

So you want to control everything in that rack with a MIDI controller? and the GT amp has no MIDI input?

try a MIDI to CV converter & hook it up between your controller & the GT amp

I'm assuming you want to save configurations on your main controller, then have it send commands to multiple rack units via MIDI

 

Have to look into this with concerns being cost of the convertor itself and an adaption to latch a TRS plug.  The Voodoo Lab Control switcher is about $180 and would do the job but this would be something like a $180 dollar single amp footswitch and that sounds a bit much to switch a single amp when I already have the non-MIDI footswitch to begin with.  Thanks for giving me something that might work.