Firmware Updates

New Features:

• Set MIDI Clock tempos via external MIDI CC messages
• New Sequential direction: random
• New Scrolling direction: random
• LFO random waveform
• New Flexiport mode: Strymon Favourite Switch

Bug Fixes:

• Sequential messages sometimes incorrectly transferred to device
• Scrolling Linked - FS4(B4) FS6(B6) counter not updating
• Blank switch groups not removed when sent from the editor
• Switch Groups with 12 members could cause incorrect importing into editor due to serial TX buffer overflow

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Features

• added binary version checking for locally installed files

Bug Fixes

• c/p bug; added new backup config link

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New Features:

• Bank level MIDI clock tempo presets with inherit tempo option

Bug Fixes:

• Morningstar Engineering Relay Flexiport mode not saving correctly
• Bank Up custom trigger overridden by editor
• General optimisation and clean-up
• Overall stability improvements

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes swapped Tip and Ring LED indicators

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Bug Fixes

• added more verbose logging
• Trace level logs are now written to the filesystem by default. File locations are OS specific:
• Linux: Resolves to $HOME/.config/com.piratemidi.ahoy/logs.
• macOS: Resolves to $HOME/Library/Logs/com.piratemidi.ahoy
• Windows: Resolves to %AppData%\com.piratemidi.ahoy\logs.

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Bug Fixes:

• Flexiport 2 when set to Aux Switch In causes v1.1.3 Bridge6 hardware version to freeze

Bug Fixes:

• Scrolling mode ignores min and max thresholds (direction dependant) when first configured onboard the device
• Tweaked label position offsets to improve tailing character displays in certain switch modes
• Boot delay time ignored
• LFO saw waveform frequency not correctly calculated
• Single switch banking navigation causes toggle and sequential actions not to be recognised on the first press
• Scrolling and Sequential linked switches remain linked after changing modes
• MIDI CC switch action control not working correctly
• Flexiport 2 MIDI modes not correctly assigning with Bridge6 v.3 hardware variants

New Features:

• Support for Device API CHCK command for firmware and hardware version tracking

Enhancements:

• MIDI in channel selection now offers values 0-16 to directly select the channel to include OMNI

Bug Fixes:

• MIDI channel select, preset scrolling and saving not functioning correctly

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New Features:

• Globally customisable Bank Up and Bank Down actions

Enhancements:

Bug Fixes:

• Ramp LFO shape repeats when steps set to other than 1
• Scrolling FS labels overlap when label is 8 characters long
• Set UI mode smart message cannot be edited on device
• Pendulum mode on simple UI causes inconsistent UI changes to sequence
• LED MIDI control OFF command not working
• Tap Tempo LED and label do not show after receiving switch mode from web editor
• Sequential mode send on secondary locks up the switch and nothing happens on secondary press
• Sequential pendulum mode does not work and skips steps/order
• Simple UI sequential mode label cut off
• Sequential messages corrupted when more than 9 steps are added with messages in each step
• Bridge6 and Bridge4 communication issues with web editor

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FACTORY RESET REQUIRED AFTER FLASHING NEW FIRMWARE IF UPDATING FROM v1.1 OR EARLIER

New features:

• Remote LED control via MIDI including states, colours and brightness
• UI mode control using Smart Messages

Bugs fixed:

• Bridge4 Flexiport2 doesn't work for Device Link
• Incorrect parsing of Yellow colour from web editor
• Global Settings LED Brightness OFF not received correctly in device config
• Flexiport pass/fail states could be incorrectly reported during a diagnostics test

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FACTORY RESET REQUIRED AFTER FLASHING NEW FIRMWARE
Please make sure that you perform a factory reset by navigating to menu System->Reset->Factory->Yes directly after loading this firmware otherwise the device will not function correctly. Make sure that your device profile is backed up before doing this.

New features:

• Configurable boot delay time
• Configurable Hold time
• Toggle On and Toggle Off messages now available for both bank and global Aux switches
• Power on message stack (actioned after boot delay)
• Device Link initial implementation
• Flexiport MIDI output modes now have UI indicators

Changes:

• Flexiport mode selection now shows current mode and new menu style
• Switch group member size increased to 2x the number of footswitches (12 for Bridge6 and 8 for Bridge4)
• Secondary Toggle On/Off stack sizes reduced to 8

Bugs fixed:

• USB CDC used for editor communication fixed for Bridge6 Hardware Version v1.1.3
• LFO settings incorrectly triggering when configured via the editor
• MIDI Clock B LED not pulsing correctly
• User-adjustable hold time not persistent after a reset when configured via the editor

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Changes:

• Carry-over switch actions no longer trigger on bank navigation events

Bugs fixed:

• Inverse expression sweeps returned incorrectly by the editor app (API)
• Tap Tempo invalid name assignment fixed from zero-indexed numbering
• Sequential step message offset fixed when applying from the editor

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Changes:

• MIDI Clock outputs set to enabled by default (this is configured during a factory reset or new device setup)

Bugs fixed:

• LED is not properly set or cleared when switch (secondary) is set to Hold Momentary
• Change the word "Step" to "Value" for Smart Messages in "scrolling" category #38
• MIDI Clock A on FS1 not updating tempo text label
• Expression Bank Messages on 2A not sending MIDI

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New features:

• Major switch mode and UI overhaul
• Device API app integration
• Copy and Paste for footswitch configurations
• Copy and Paste for bank configurations
• A bank can be assigned as the template bank for quick configuration
• Switch groups for assigning multi-switch related behaviour
• Footswitches capable of a Primary and Secondary action
• Smart messages for custom events and control:
• Turn on switch
• Turn off switch
• Toggle switch
• Reset sequential step
• Go to sequential step
• Reset scrolling step
• Go to scrolling step
• Bank up
• Bank down
• Go to bank
• Increment EXP step
• Decrement EXP step
• Go to EXP step
• TRS switch out
• TRS Relay out
• Increment sequential step
• Decrement sequential step
• Queue sequential step
• Queue next sequential step
• Increment scrolling step
• Decrement scrolling step
• Queue scrolling step
• Queue next scrolling step
• Menu navigation has a breadcrumb trail
• Main UI streamlined with increased footswitch sizes
• Flexiports capable of new MIDI out modes:
• TypeA
• TypeB
• Tip active
• Ring active
• Ability to bank up and down inside of the main menu on bank-level items
• Enter/exit menu using Control Change messages
• New Flexiport mode for controlling Morningstar Relay Interface.
• Aux switches can trigger a single press, and a single hold message, both globally and per bank
• Per bank reset
• Support for LED and display refresh via Device API

Changes:

• Return action in menu navigation moved to FS5 (Bridge6 and FS3+FS4 (Bridge4)
• LFO behaviour and triggering now matches the primary/secondary assignment of the switch
• Full range of LFO LED feedback extended
• Default Switch Group response set to off for new member entries
• Refactoring and code-clean-up in preparation for Bridge1 and Aero

Bugs fixed:

• MIDI input no longer locks up when the device receives data during the power-on sequence
• General UI and menu bugs
• Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/#18
• Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/#16
• Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/#15
• Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/#13
• Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/#10
• Device no longer hangs when transmitting an event over the CDC USB interface to an inactive serial port
• Fixes Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/#16
• 75
• 73
• 72
• 61
• Fixes Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/#13
• Fixes duplicate zero-padding bug when sending single date byte messages (such as PC) when packetizing messages for transmission over USB Audio class
• Fixes Pirate-MIDI/Pirate-MIDI-Features-Bug-Tracking/Pirate-MIDI/Bridge#16
• Fixes factory reset not correctly resetting all parameters in all banks within correct bounds
• 35 Bank reset not correctly reset LED modes from dim to on/off
• 34 Lower case text with tails cut-off by 3 pixels
• 30 Erroneous PC Output messages
• 28 Sending USB MIDI at the same time as CDC resulted in API data loss
• 29 Incorrect factory reset for some banks
• 21 TRS MIDI in configuration locks up
• Device API bug fixes
• Removes blocking display and LED update function calls after every packet to avoid delays (CTRL refresh commands should be used instead)
• Fixes incorrect handling of bank settings reception, as well as global settings persistence after power cycling due to Flexiport and MIDI initialization ordering.

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New features:

• UI mode can be changed using MIDI CC 30
• Double Press switch actions are ignored if there are no messages assigned to the Double Press stack
• New Flexiport mode Pulse Sync Out allows for analog clock generation on the tip for modular, and gear without MIDI Clock sync
• New UI for Flexiport Switch Out mode
• Holding Footswitch 1 for seven seconds during power on allows for factory reset in the event of a firmware issue
• Flexiport Tap Tempo output starts and stops according to the MIDI clock state

Changes:

• Switches menu is consolidated to include the LED colour settings, as well as changed the visibility order of LFO and messages
• All MIDI message outputs default to on
• Tap tempo now defaults to 120 BPM at power-up
• Flexiport Switch Out states default to open until configured

Bugs fixed:

• LFO frequency jumps from 0.2 to 10 rather than stepping down to 0.1
• Tap tempo changes randomly during power cycles
• Switch Out configuration may not save correctly (configuration lost during next power cycle)
• Bridge6 (Hardware version v1.0.1) Flexiport2 tip to sleeve switch not mapped correctly
• Fixed MIDI thru incorrectly passing messages from a USB source

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Improvements:

• Added inverted modes for each expression pedal sweep

Bugs fixed:

• Deleting messages from the release stack functions correctly
• LFOs now trigger correctly and only output a single message per value change
• Expression pedal message correctly decrements the value to 127 rather than 255
• Fixed menu editing of Flexiport Switch Out mode
• Increased the LED refresh rate and removed timing jitter to provide smoother MIDI clock pulse indication
• Greatly improved the responsiveness of expression pedals and made latency improvements
• Additional space at the end of footswitch names is now stripped upon saving, preventing horizontal alignment issues.

No factory reset is required if updating from v1.0.1.

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New features:

• Scrolling with acceleration enabled on hold actions in menu navigation and editing
• Remote bank navigation via Control Change and Program Change messages
• Automatic Program Change messages when banking up/down enabled with independent channel selection per output

Changes:

• Lowered hold action time from 1.25s to 1s for improved responsiveness

Bugs fixed:

• Press messages sent on press and hold actions
• Program Change messages not sent correctly in message stacks
• MIDI clock may assign to incorrect switch
• Device freezes when connected to MacOS device without audio/MIDI application open
• Release messages not sent until second action
• Release stack editing causes device to freeze

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Known Issues

Initial

• Device Link not functioning correctly
• Custom delay messages are ignored
• Pressing multiple switches in the menu navigation can sometimes incorrectly trigger

6/12/21

• Viewing/editing release messages causes the device to become non-responsive
• Hold acceleration scrolling not functioning

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