At long last, here's the 4.0 beta. I've been working on this one since June, and am very happy to get it out to all of you before the end of the year. If any of you could do some testing and let me know if you run into any problems, it would very helpful!
There are quite a few features and fixes, here are most of them:
Audio Features
PLEASE DON'T UPDATE TO THIS RELEASE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR BIG GIG! THIS IS A BETA RELEASE AND MAY STILL BE BUGGY!
- First, back up your settings to a flash drive or computer! If you go back to 3.0 or earlier, your PBC will factory reset.
- Download and unzip the firmware file.
- Copy the file to a USB flash drive, and remove any other .rjf files from the flash drive.
- Eject the drive from your computer.
- Power on the Mastermind PBC while holding the 1 and 3 buttons.
- Keep holding until you see "Mastermind Bootloader" appear on the screen.
- Now plug the flash drive into your Mastermind PBC. The update should begin and will take a few minutes to complete.
Firmware: http://www.rjmmusic.com/downloads/MM40B1.zip
Mac Editor: http://www.rjmmusic.com/software/MastermindEditor-4.0b1.dmg
PC Editor: http://www.rjmmusic.com/software/MastermindEditor-4.0b1.zip
Manual: coming soon!
There are quite a few features and fixes, here are most of them:
Audio Features
- Audio loops can now be set as "independent". This is a global-level setting that is a new option to the locked/unlocked setting. An independent loop does not change when you change presets - it stays in whatever state you last set (by IA button presses).
- There is now an Audio / Input action that controls the input mute.
- It's now possible to disable the internal tuner
- There is a new Guitar mode for the tuner that allows you to set a capo (in semitones) and per-string offsets (in cents). You can also use the Chromatic mode to get the old tuner behavior.
- Added the Tap Button CC to Strymon pedals
- Added missing Bypass CC for the Strymon Mobius
- Added support for MD-500 and RV-500
- Added support for Empress Echosystem, Reverb, Tremolo and Phaser
- You can now define up to 128 expression pedal settings blocks. There's a System / ExpPedal action that allows you to switch expression pedal settings on the fly. This replaces expression pedal grouping
- External switches can now have different functions on different button pages (in addition to the per-preset settings they already have)
- External switches now pay attention to color settings: setting a color to black means "LED off" and any other color means "LED on"
- Function switches now have global and preset settings with lock, independent and override settings, just like audio loops do.
- Each preset can now have a button color assigned to it. When a preset button calls up a preset, its button color will be displayed on that preset button (if any color is assigned)
- Each preset can be assigned an alternate preset number. There's a new "Alternate" setting for the "Preset 2nd Press" global setting - when this setting is active, pressing a preset button a second time will recall the preset's alternate preset.
- It's now possible to select a preset that's not part of the current song, and also possible to select a song that's not part of the current setlist.
- There is now a System / Song action that allows you to select songs from an IA button, macro, etc. Special values are "None", "Previous" and "Next"
- The System / Setlist action now has special values "None", "Same", "Previous" and "Next"
- When switching setlists, will always reset to the first song and preset in the setlist
- Each preset can set a tempo division for the MIDI clock output and the Auto Tap feature
- Presets can specify a tempo value, or special values "Off", "Same", "Song"
- Songs can specify a tempo value, or special values "Off", "Same", "Preset"
- There is now a System / BPM action that allows you to set tempos on the fly. Special values are "Off", "Same", "Song", "Preset", "Plus 1", "Plus 0.1", "Minus 1", "Minus 0.1"
- There's a setting that enables or disables sending of MIDI start and stop messages when the clock starts and stop
- There's a setting that enables or disables sending MIDI clock to the secondary output pins of the MIDI in port.
- "Ignore Preset Tempos" setting forces the system to ignore all tempos in presets and act as if the tempo was set to "Song"
- There is now an "Auto" setting for the "MIDI Clock" parameter. This one makes the system a clock master unless a clock is received from the USB port or MIDI In port, in which case it becomes a clock slave
- You can now format flash drives from the setup menu
- MIDI Forwarding setting allows you to use the Mastermind as a USB MIDI interface for other MIDI devices. Works well with Strymon pedals and the Nixie software on a PC or Mac.
- PC actions now have "Same" and "Prev" values. The former sends the most recently sent PC again. The latter sends the 2nd to last PC again
- Added a System / IA Store action
- The amount of time button names are displayed is now user configurable
- There are now "Copy to Preset" and "Copy from Preset" options accessible by right-clicking on presets in the Presets tab of the editor.
- IA Link now works correctly with buttons that recall presets
- Click Stopper no longer is triggered when changing function switches
- You can now select Dry Mix in an Audio / Signal action
- Fixed issues with tempo and global preset
- Bank Up / Down on a page with no preset buttons no longer causes a problem
- You can now select any of the 64 setlists from the setup menu
- Fixed the ability to set trails on loops 9 & 10 in the setup menu
- Fixed a bug involving changing pages and momentary buttons
- Edit Presets menu now correctly handles comments in preset names (text after a "|" character)
- Fixed a bug that occurred when a preset index was set to 255
PLEASE DON'T UPDATE TO THIS RELEASE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR BIG GIG! THIS IS A BETA RELEASE AND MAY STILL BE BUGGY!
- First, back up your settings to a flash drive or computer! If you go back to 3.0 or earlier, your PBC will factory reset.
- Download and unzip the firmware file.
- Copy the file to a USB flash drive, and remove any other .rjf files from the flash drive.
- Eject the drive from your computer.
- Power on the Mastermind PBC while holding the 1 and 3 buttons.
- Keep holding until you see "Mastermind Bootloader" appear on the screen.
- Now plug the flash drive into your Mastermind PBC. The update should begin and will take a few minutes to complete.
Firmware: http://www.rjmmusic.com/downloads/MM40B1.zip
Mac Editor: http://www.rjmmusic.com/software/MastermindEditor-4.0b1.dmg
PC Editor: http://www.rjmmusic.com/software/MastermindEditor-4.0b1.zip
Manual: coming soon!