Pedal Switcher with Rocktron Midi Raider

[michaelgrgas]

Does anyone know if I can control 3 VL Pedal Switchers and VL Channel Switcher with a Rocktron Midi Raider?

[JohnClark]

In order to control a Voodoo lab switcher from another manufacturers controller, you must send the following SysEx message:

F0 00 00 07 01 08 10 F7

This is in Hexadecimal format, but it looks like the MIDI Raider will want the data entered in decimal where each byte is valued 0-127...

How to enter this is all shown in the "SYSX" section of the MIDI Raider Manual. You really only need to send this message once after starting up the system.

Also, I believe you will not have to enter the SysEx start and stop messages so you will likely only need to enter the six bytes in between then enter the "EOX" for the last byte

0, 0, 7, 1, 8, 10, EOX


If successful, the switchers will all react as if they were GCX switchers and the Control Change assignments will depend on their position in the MIDI path.
For instance, if the MIDI path is MIDI Raider -> Pedal Switcher (#1) -> Pedal Switcher (#2) -> Pedal Switcher (#3) -> Control Switcher. Then the Loops and switches will respond as follows, all on MIDI Channel 16...

Pedal Switcher #1 = CC 80-83
Pedal Switcher #2 = CC 84-87
Pedal Switcher #3 = CC 88-91
Control Switcher = CC 92-95

I hope that helps!