Presets on pages other than #1 behave strangely. Help?

[swsilander]

For whatever reason, I cannot have multiple pages with song presets. I would like to have page 1 display presets 1-6 and page 5 to display presets 7-12. Is this possible? Currently every other button works on page 5, while the remaining buttons appear as though they are on page 1. Not sure what is happening but Id love some insight. Double tapping or hold functions are not personally my cup of tea.,

 

[rjmmusic]

That's not how preset buttons are designed to work - the presets are selected by the current bank, not by the current page. However, you can set up IA buttons to work as fixed preset buttons.

This video describes how preset buttons work:
MIDI Controller Basics

And this video describes how to set up fixed preset buttons:
Fixed Preset Buttons

 

[swsilander]

That's not how preset buttons are designed to work - the presets are selected by the current bank, not by the current page. However, you can set up IA buttons to work as fixed preset buttons.

This video describes how preset buttons work:
MIDI Controller Basics

And this video describes how to set up fixed preset buttons:
Fixed Preset Buttons

Would it be possible to have these IA preset buttons behave within a song that has "variable" presets? Or must I choose fully fixed or song dependent presets?

 

[rjmmusic]

Would it be possible to have these IA preset buttons behave within a song that has "variable" presets? Or must I choose fully fixed or song dependent presets?

Fixed preset buttons are going to stay fixed. However, you could have a button page that has standard preset buttons, and have some presets load that page. If you turn on Auto Page Select in global settings, then each preset will automatically switch to the page specified by the preset's "Load Page" setting.

 

[swsilander]

Fixed preset buttons are going to stay fixed. However, you could have a button page that has standard preset buttons, and have some presets load that page. If you turn on Auto Page Select in global settings, then each preset will automatically switch to the page specified by the preset's "Load Page" setting.

I'm not sure I follow this entirely... would this allow me to toggle between two pages of presets? One page being song presets and the other being fixed? Or would you mind expanding on what you mean? Sorry, new to the verbiage.

 

[rjmmusic]

I'm not sure I follow this entirely... would this allow me to toggle between two pages of presets? One page being song presets and the other being fixed? Or would you mind expanding on what you mean? Sorry, new to the verbiage.

Yes, exactly - one page with fixed presets, and one that accesses our normal song-based presets.

 

[swsilander]

Yes, exactly - one page with fixed presets, and one that accesses our normal song-based presets.

Hey just wanted to follow up on this. Whether I have auto page select on(and specifying the correct page) or not, it will always go back to page 1 which is my song presets. If I go to page 5(my fixed presets), anything selected goes back to page 1. Why would this be?

 

[rjmmusic]

My best guess is that you have a button somewhere that has a System / Page page:1 action on it, and the button has Send on Preset Change turned on. This makes the button trigger every time you change presets.