welcome back to our tutorial series for
the bridge 6 and Bridge 4 midi foot
controllers by pirate midi today we're
going to cover the interface settings
the user interface the light brightness
and all the other settings that you
might want to change on your Bridge 6 or
your Bridge 4. today we're going to use
the bridge 4 instead of bridge six like
we did last time first is the UI mode
User Interface Mode
now you'll notice that by default we
have the extended UI displayed which as
I said in the previous video will show
the flexi Port modes as icons and graphs
as well as the switch labels and the
bank name but let's say that you want
everything to be a little bit bigger and
you don't need to see what mode the
flexi ports are in let's go to the
global menu
and we'll go to
interface
General UI
and we will change the UI mode on the
right here to simple we'll save that
exit the menu you'll see that the switch
labels are a bit bigger the bank name is
centered and the flexi Port icons are
gone so that's a simple UI if you need
to clean up the look so that you can see
it a bit easier when you're playing on
stage
LED Brightness
let's look at some of the other
interface options back into the global
interface settings General UI we have
the LED brightness it's by default on
medium but it can get even brighter on
high that's really bright but great for
when you're playing outdoors in the
daytime
off or low
we also have the switch States now the
labels on here aren't very descriptive
but there's a full description in the
user manual and I'm about to explain
them to you now we have the transmit
Transmit States & Persistent States
States and persistent States so when you
change Banks on your Bridge six let's
bring this over here
try to turn those off and I change to
bank one
and then I change back to bank zero none
of my switches are how I left them and
that's because by default the persistent
States is off now sometimes you might
want this sometimes you might not so
there's an option let's turn that on
and
we will now toggle off two of these
switches
go to the next Bank
go back and now switch toggle states are
how we left them transmit States is very
much in the same wheelhouse let's go
back to our interface settings transmit
States if we turn that on every time you
enter a bank whatever state those
switches are in those messages will be
transmitted so if you change Banks and
one of the switches is on those toggle
on messages will be sent again and this
is useful for keeping gear in sync so
that if you have a default state that
you want to work from if that bank that
will just be ready to go and it will be
semi-automated so transmit States will
send those messages again when you enter
that bank to make sure everything is
just how you want it for now we're going
to turn transmit States off and
persistent States off and we've left our
UI mode in simple and then we're going
across to the next page of these
settings to look at the next interface
options and they are boot delay and hold
time so boot delay delays the amount of
Boot Delay
time it takes for your bridge to turn on
this can be used for particularly in
conjunction with the power on messages
so if you have some other devices on
your pedalboard that take longer to turn
on but you want to send power on midi
messages to those you can delay your
Bridge 6 or your bridge for boot time up
to 20 seconds so that you can wait for
that other device to be ready to receive
any power on Mini messages so the power
on messages will be sent after this boot
delay time the other setting here hold
Hold Time
time is for the long hold
time of the switch presses so as I
showed in an earlier video you can have
midi messages that are sent when you
press the switch all different ways
double tap press toggle on toggle off
and here you can see if I long hold the
switch the secondary switch will turn on
and send the hold message stack and so
over here in the UI settings we can
actually adjust how long
that switch takes to activate so you can
bring that all the way down to 300
milliseconds or maximum of two and a
half seconds so that can be really
helpful for making it a bit quicker and
easier to activate those hold switches
let's just show you how that works we'll
set that to 300 milliseconds exit the
menu
and then we'll do a hold look how quick
that is compared to the bridge six
there we go that's hold time some other
Changing Bank Names
important user interface elements are of
course the bank name and the switch
names on the bridge 4 to change a bank
name on board you go to the menu and you
just go over here to bank name to change
the bank name you simply press and hold
a switch
one or two and that will change the
character and if you press and hold for
a few seconds it will start scrolling
and it will accelerate which helps you
not press the button a hundred times
like this so just press and hold
like so and you can see the characters
there scrolling through quite quickly of
course the web editor is a much faster
way to do this you can find that at
edit.pirate midi.com
Changing Switch Labels
to change the switch labels it's very
very similar we'll go into our menu go
to switches choose our switch and then
we'll go to the switch name and that's
exactly the same process in terms of
typing the name as it is
for the bank names and as I said the web
editor is much faster for doing that
another user interface element are the
Changing LED Colours
LED colors and here's how you change the
color of an LED we go to the switch
we'll choose switch one and we'll go to
the configuration menu
the configuration menu shows the switch
mode the LED action and the color of the
LED
so we scroll across to the color and
then we just simply scroll through the
colors like so by default there are a
bunch of
nice colors there but there are also
custom colors available in the global
interface menu as well you can set
colors whatever you like if it's dim or
as bright or as colorful as you need to
match your gear or to match your own
idea of what that effect would look like
if it was a color and then of course
Changing LED Action
here we have the LED action and that is
simply the difference between going on
and off with a toggle or being dim and
then being brighter when it's totaled on
so I'll show you what that looks like
exit the menu if I toggle that off you
can see the LED is still on but it's
just a lot more dim like that so that's
dim and
all of which we change to Green
Custom LED Colours
and then to find the custom colors we go
into the global menu interface custom
colors and here you can use a red green
and blue mixing system to choose
whatever color you would like
there are 12 custom colors which you can
save to each of your Bridge devices the
External MIDI Control
last thing you need to know about
controlling your Bridge 6's UI is that
most of this stuff can be controlled
with external midi commands so by
sending midi messages to your Bridge
you'll be able to turn on and off
switches change Banks select different
press types and even change the colors
on the Fly of the LEDs so this is great
for overriding the onboard settings with
external software like Loopers and doors
and all those midi Commands to control
your Bridge 6 or your Bridge 4 can be
found at the end of the user manual so
that's it for this video we've covered
all of the different interface settings
you can change on your Bridge 6 or your
Bridge 4. I'll see you next time
