Creating Two IA Buttons for Two Boosts on Preset/Song Page

[sjgam]

All my pedals are midi controllable and I was thinking adding two boost IA buttons to my preset/song pages.

Here is my thought on how to do it with PBC 10 - I would just add boost without affecting the preset with an IA button with a Midi CC toggle action on the mIdi device specifying the volume boost with a on value that's slightly higher than my standard preset level. So it doesn't affect preset sound in play, just the volume.

Here is my thought on what pedals in my chain I would use for two boosts - my midi pedal chain is all Chase Bliss in this order -Brothers (Boost/OD/Fuzz), PreampMKII(Clean/OD/Fuzz), Condor HiFi (EQ/Drive), Clean (Compressor/Limiter with Dry and Wet Controls). I use my amp as a clean pedal platform and get all my overdrive sounds from the pedal chain.

So I use the Boost channel on Brothers for boost to fatten/saturate start of chain and the output of Clean compressor end of chain for transparent Volume boost.

I was going to use two top buttons on Preset/Song page:

1. Button One - would control the output of Brothers with its boost channel to fatten up/saturate my Preamp MKII Drive sound
2. Button Two - would control the wet/dry output of Clean compressor end of chain for a simple volume boost

1. Question about using cc to boost levels - is using the PBC 10 and cc# with higher value best way to get boost on all of my presets/songs?
2. IA Button settings - midi cc toggle action, relevant midi device and parameter cc number and On value set higher than preset. To turn it off I guess I would set the Off cc value to that of the preset? Or none? Momentary?
2. Question about which pedals - with a chain of boost, preamp/OD, eq and compressor - would you use boost level of first pedal for fattening/saturation boost and output of compressor for transparent volume boost.

Thoughts are welcome, especially if there is an easier way to do it.

 

[rjmmusic]

Actually adjusting the boost or output level of a pedal using a CC is ok if you have those pedals on all the time. It's not going to do anything for you if the pedal is off. Generally, I prefer using presets on the pedals where possible. But, if you use those pedals as "always on" pedals, then your strategy makes sense.

 

[sjgam]

Yeah they are always on pedals. Out of curiosity if a pedal was not always on and I simply added a turn pedal on action for the same button before the cc volume adjustment action would you see a problem with that? So if the pedal was already on it would just be a redundant action and if it happens to be off then it would be turned on.