hello and welcome to another video
tutorial for the pirate mini Bridge 6
and Bridge 4 midi controllers today
we're going to be talking about the
footswitch modes
there's a lot you can do with a bridge
MIDI controller by default the switch
Primary & Secondary Modes
modes are all set to toggle on and
toggle off
so when you press a switch it will
toggle on and send a particular set of
messages and when you toggle it off you
can set any number of messages to be
sent when you toggle it off but what if
you want to do more than that there's
only six switches on a bridge six with
Bridge four you're even more limited
particularly with space so maybe you
could plug in an external auxiliary
switch or maybe you can't maybe there's
just not space so here's where the
switch modes come in really handy
there's also a secondary mode available
on every switch so if I press and hold
then there's another set of mini
messages that are sent there another set
that are sent there
etc
etc now if we go into our menu and look
at the switch configurations we go into
switches go to switch one config you'll
see all the settings here as I said the
Toggle Mode
primary mode by default is on toggle if
we go over here to the second page the
secondary mode is on hold toggle so as I
showed you over here if I hold the
switch
it toggles off if I hold a switch again
it toggles on that's what that means
let's go over to the primary mode and
I'll talk you through all the primary
modes there's momentary mode momentary
Momentary Mode
just sends press release messages not
the toggle on a toggle off message
Stacks so when you press it the light
will light up momentarily and it will
send the Press message stack as soon as
you release that switch the light will
turn off and the release message stack
will be sent
Tap Tempo Mode
then there's the tap Tempo mode this
completely takes over the switch it's
not quite like other modes this can be
assigned to either midi clock A or B you
can have both midi clocks assigned to
two different switches at the same time
and the LED primary will Flash
which I will show you here save this
the LED primary will Flash the tempo and
the switch label will show the current
Tempo so if I
speed this up we've got 216 and also
flashing at that Tempo rate now if I
press and hold
the switch the secondary switch actually
will send a start clock message over
midi and if I hold that and stop it
again I will send a stop message and if
I happen to be using one of the flexi
Port modes that sends analog or pulse
clock out of the flexi Port then the
secondary hold will actually stop and
start those analog clock Messengers so
that's really handy as well
now let's go back in the menu and to the
Sequential Mode
switch config and the next mode is
sequential sequential allows you to send
a sequence of different midi messages
you can have up to 16 sequential steps
which could each have one midi message
assigned to them each sequential step
allows you to have a different switch
name and a different switch color now
these settings here for the direction
allow you to choose this switch to go
through that stack in Reverse or
forwards or pendulum which goes from the
start to the end and then we'll reverse
back through each of those steps
the send command which here we have for
always or secondary or primary means
that the sequential message can actually
be delayed so you can search for a step
and then send it using the secondary
function which in this switch is well on
this switch over here is a hold
so the sequential message wouldn't
actually be sent until you do that
secondary action so you can use it as a
Looper command type thing where you
press and switch and it immediately
starts the command for looping or you
could use it as something else maybe
preset selection where you're just going
through three different presets on one
of your pedals maybe and you can scroll
through one two or three and then when
you're ready to activate it you can
press and hold so that's really great
repeat setting actually goes through and
either Cycles through all the steps or
here it says last two where it'll go
through all the steps and then we'll
just keep repeating the last two steps
until you reset it
or last three so that's really helpful
particularly for live looping the other
switch mode we have is sequential linked
Sequential Linked Mode
which means you can put another switch
on sequential mode but it will actually
be controlling the same sequential stack
so you can see over here we have the
linked foot switch so if I already have
a sequential mode on foot switch 4 and I
set this foot switch 4 then this
sequential foot switch will be able to
say if I have the direction as reverse
on this one and forwards on this one
then I have just two different switches
one is increasing the steps one is
decreasing the steps then we have
Scrolling Mode
scrolling mode scrolling mode is great
for scrolling preset numbers it's great
for scrolling CC values scrolling notes
this is what you do it's got very
similar Direction and
sending options as the sequential mode
you have a minimum and maximum value so
similar to the second steps or the
expression messages where you might
actually want to be going through a
limited number of steps and cycling
through them rather than the full 128
steps of a normal cc message you can set
limits so maybe 0 to 10 and every time
you press that switch you might want to
increment that by one or incremented by
two or incremented by three but the
maximum increment is 32 and then you can
also change the LED color of that as
well and very similarly to the
sequential mode you also have a
scrolling linked so you can have two
switches one that might scroll up one
that might scroll back one that might
send every time you press it like the
increment but maybe you might want to
occasionally decrement and you will set
that to maybe send on the secondary so
that you are certain which one you're
Hold Toggle Mode
going back to that's all the primary
switch mode so let's move to the
secondary switch modes by default I said
we're on hold toggle so that will send
secondary toggle on and secondary toggle
off message Stacks that will send them
when you hold down the switch like so
Double Tap Momentary Mode
then you have double tap momentary so
that means when you double tap it will
send the double tap message stack but
the light will only be momentary I won't
be sending the toggle on and toggle off
secondary message Stacks it will be
sending the double tap message stack
you have hold momentary which will send
Hold Momentary Mode
the hold message stack but it doesn't
send the toggle on and toggle off stacks
Double Tap Toggle Mode
and then you have double tap toggle
which toggles on and off those secondary
toggle on toggle up message Stacks but
only when you double tap so it's very
similar to the hold toggle except you
have to double tap so I'll show you what
that looks like here so I've set on the
bridge 4 here I've set switch one to
double tap toggle so if I double tap
that will send the secondary toggle on
message if I double tap again that will
send the secondary toggle off message
whereas if I had it in double tap
momentary it would momentarily light up
the secondary LED and it would send the
double tap yes
the other important thing that interacts
with the switch modes are the lfos there
LFOs
will be a full video on how they work
later on but for now let me just show
you that if you go into switches it's
one and go to LFO
you'll see here that you can enable the
LFO
sync it to a particular midi clock at a
particular frequency
and you can trigger a particular set of
midi messages and you can see that LFO
oscillate the midi values of whatever
messages are in that stack and you can
control the limits of how much it will
oscillate that message some of these
settings aren't working right now but we
have a huge update coming for the lfos
and we'll do a full LFO video when we've
given you those updates so let me show
Message Stacks
you where you can assign messages to
each of these message Stacks let's go
into the menu go to the switches choose
our switch and then go to messages
toggle on and toggle off message Stacks
Toggle On & Off
are sent when you toggle on and toggle
off in primary toggle mode
Press Messages
press message is sent anytime the switch
is pressed so that's important to note
that if you use this it will be sent
every time you press the switch no
matter what intent you have because the
bridge will be acting quickly in case
that message is time sensitive like for
a Looper and it won't be listening the
the message stack for press won't be
taking into consideration whether you're
going to make a double press or
something like that it just wants to get
that message sent
Release Messages
release is similar it will send a
message whenever you release the switch
Other Message Stacks
double press as I said
hold
hold release and here's the secondary
toggle on and secondary toggle off
message stacks so if you want to toggle
things on the secondary side you need to
add those messages to these message
Stacks then there's sequential which is
where you add your sequential messages
and scrolling where you add a message
that you want to scroll through when you
add a scrolling message the value that
you enter for that message that is the
value that the scrolling will start from
sequential messages are more flexible
and have lots of options so we'll do a
separate video to show you how to use
those but that's it for now see you next
time
