Changing the 8-STEP’s MIDI Channel
1. Press and hold the RESET FSW. After 3 seconds you will see the GL and SL LEDs blink, while the DIR LED is off. At this point the current MIDI channel is displayed on the digit display. 2. While continuing to hold down the RESET FSW, turn the MODE knob clockwise to increment the MIDI channel and counter-clockwise to decrement the MIDI channel. 3. The range of available channels is 1 through 16 plus a setting displayed as A where all MIDI channels are recognized. Since there is only one digit available on the display, the digit’s decimal LED lights up to indicate the tens placeholder. So Channel 12 is shown by displaying the number 2 plus the decimal LED: (2.). Channel 2 would be shown by displaying only the number 2 (2). 4. To enable all MIDI channels, turn MODE clockwise past Channel 16. An A will be displayed on the digit, now all MIDI channels are recognized. 5. Once you have selected your chosen MIDI channel, release the RESET FSW. The MIDI channel selection remains in memory even after power cycling. 6. The MIDI channel is a global parameter; it is not saved with presets.LOADING PRESET WITH MIDI
Using Program Change Messages The 8-STEP accepts MIDI Program Change messages to load its stored presets as long as the MIDI controller is set to the 8-STEP’s MIDI channel. As an example, if you want to load preset 10, send Program Change message 10 to the 8-STEP. Using CC Messages The 8-STEP also loads presets upon receiving MIDI CC 118. The data value sent along with MIDI CC 118 indicates the preset number that will be loaded. For example if you want to load preset 51, send a data value of 51 along with MIDI CC 118. Sending a value above 99 will unload the currently selected preset.SAVING PRESETS WITH MIDI
1. You can save the 8-STEP’s current setting by sending a MIDI message using CC 117. 2. The MIDI controller must be set to the 8-STEP’s current MIDI Channel. 3. The data value that is sent along with MIDI CC 117 will be the location that the preset is saved in. The 8-STEP overwrites the old preset that was at this location. For example, if you want to store your settings to preset number 3, send MIDI CC 117 with a data value equal to 3. 4. The 8-STEP can save up to 100 presets via MIDI (using values 0 through 99), any data value above 99 will be ignored. 5. When saving presets with MIDI, be careful because the preset is saved immediately upon receiving the proper MIDI message.MIDI CC Messages
CC# PARAMETER EXPLANATION CC DATA RANGE 4 EXPR.PEDAL Works as expression pedal for 0-127 parameter selected by the EXP. MODE LEDs. 16 STEP 1 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 1’s slider. 17 STEP 2 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 2’s slider. 18 STEP 3 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 3’s slider. 19 STEP 4 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 4’s slider. 20 STEP 5 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 5’s slider. 21 STEP 6 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 6’s slider. 22 STEP 7 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 7’s slider. 23 STEP 8 SLIDER Controls the setting or value 0-127 for Step 8’s slider. 24 RATE SLIDER Controls the RATE slider 0-127 thereby controlling the tempo of the sequencer. Sending RATE slider MIDI data is equivalent to moving the RATE slider. 25 GLide Smoothly controls the GLIDE 0-127 parameter over its entire range 26 DIRection Controls the DIRECTION setting 0=Forward 1=Reverse 2=Bounce 3=Random 27 SEQ. Length Controls the SEQeuncer LENGTH 1-8 setting 28 DEPTH Smoothly controls the DEPTH 0…100=0% to 100% parameter over its entire 101…127 amplify range step values that are set below step slider maximum 29 TAP DIVIDE Controls the TAP DIVIDE 0=off or 1/4 note setting 1=dotted 8th 2=1/4 note triplet 3=8th note 4=8th note triplet 5=16th note 6=32nd note 30 EXPR. MODE Controls the EXPression MODE 0=off setting 1=RATE 2=DEPTH 3=GLIDE 4=SEQ LENGTH 5=EXT. CLOCK 31 PLAY MODE Controls the PLAY MODE 0=LOOP setting. Whenever this 1=1-SHOT setting changes, the digit 2=STEP-THRU display flashes the new mode. 33 Encoder MODE Directly sets the Encoder MODE 0=GLide 1=DIRection 2=Seq Length 3=DEPTH 4=Preset 34 PLAY FSW Engages PLAY function. In 0=stop Step-Thru mode both 0 and 127 127=start advance the sequence. 35 RESET FSW RESET FSW press 127=RESET FSW press 36 TAP FSW TAP FSW press 127=TAP FSW press 37 TAP DIVIDE TAP DIVIDE Button press 127=TAP DIVIDE press BUTTON 39 EXP. MODE BTN EXP. MODE Button press 127=EXP. MODE press 40 ENC. MODE BTN ENCODER MODE Button press 127=MODE press 41 Seq. Step When the sequencer is stopped 1…8 directly chooses or if PLAY MODE is set to the sequencer step Step-Thru, this CC forces the sequencer to jump to a step immediately. If the sequencer is running, this CC is ignored 117 Save Preset Save current 8-STEP settings 0…99= immediately to preset number specified in save to preset data field of this CC message. number equal to If the data value is above 99, value of CC the CC message is ignored. 118 Load Preset Load or cue preset. Preset 0…99= load preset number is specified in the number equal to data field of this CC message. value of CC. If the data value is above 99, 100…127= unload the 8-STEP unloads the current preset preset.MIDI PROGRAM CHANGE MESSAGES
Presets saved within the 8-STEP can be loaded using an external MIDI device through MIDI Program Change messages. The MIDI PC messages must be set to the same channel as the 8-STEP or set the 8-STEP to accept all channels. Please Note: This manual describes PC messages as having a range of 0 to 127; some devices use the range 1 to 128. The total range is the same; you may need to adjust the PC number by 1. PC# FUNCTION 0-99 Loads preset associated with the Program Change number. For example, Program Change 6 will load preset number 6. 100 PLAY FSW press 101 RESET FSW press 102 TAP FSW press 103 TAP DIVIDE BUTTON press 104 EXPression MODE BUTTON press 105 Preset Down Load – If no preset is loaded, loads the current preset number, otherwise decrements the preset number and loads the preset. 106 Preset Up Load – If no preset is loaded, loads the current preset number, otherwise increments the preset number and loads the preset. 107 MODE BUTTON press 108 Encoder Down - Equivalent to rotating the encoder counter-clockwise by one click. 109 Encoder up - Equivalent to rotating the encoder clockwise by one click. 110 Preset Load – Loads the current preset number. 111 Preset Un-Load – Unloads the current preset. 112 External CV Clock enable toggle – each time this PC message is received External CV Clock mode is enabled/disabled.