7. Scrolling Mode

welcome back to another video tutorial

for the pirate midi Bridge 6 and Bridge

4 midi controllers

this time we're going to be talking

about scrolling mode which is a switch

mode for the primary side of each switch

on the bridge 6 or Bridge 4. there are

two modes that apply to scrolling one is

scrolling of course the other is

scrolling linked which allows you to

control the same scrolled values but

have different settings so here on my

bridge 6 I've set up foot switch 2 and

foot switch 5 as linked scrolling foot

switches foot switch 2 is the scrolling

mode flip switch 5 is linked mode

so you can see here we have the normal

switch label as well as a colon and a

value so if I press switch 2 you can see

I'm incrementing this value by eight

and that will be sending the CC message

I have there and changing the value

every time I press the switch so every

time I press foot switch 2 it sends the

CC message but it changes the value by

the number I've set which is by

increments of eight on the scrolling

linked switch on foot switch 5 I've

changed the color just for the sake of

it but I've changed the sending mode to

pendulum which means that when I reach

the end it will actually then decrease

Scrolling Switch Config

let me show you how this is set up

go into our switches select foot switch

to go into the configuration I've got

this on scrolling mode as I said the

direction is forwards which means it

will just continue to send incremental

values and then when it reaches the end

it will reset to the start

I've left the minimum maximum of zero

and 127 but you can limit that as much

as you like the reason those values were

Scrolling Step Value

going up in eight is because I've set

the step size to eight you can set that

for anything from 1 to 32 which means

that you can really dial in exactly what

numbers you want to be scrolled and then

of course you can change the LED color

let's save that and exit and we'll go up

Scrolling Linked Switch Config

to switch 5 to see how that was set up

this is set to scrolling linked it's

linked to foot switch 2 and the

Scrolling Direction

direction I set to pendulum as I showed

you it gets to the end and then goes

back again more commonly you would

probably set your link switch to reverse

which means that it just does the

opposite direction of what your main

switch does so I would have this one in

forward this one in reverse and that

would mean we could just go backwards

and forwards whenever we needed to

Scrolling Send Action

sand is the same as on the sequential

mode where it will always send that

message that's assigned to the scrolling

as soon as you press the switch or you

can specifically set it to only be sent

when you do the secondary action which

might be to Long hold the switch or to

double press the switch

let's show you how that works

so if I chose this as hold toggle and

save that

then what will happen here is the

message on this footswitch 5 of value 56

will only be sent once I actually toggle

the switch on and then I just press it

and I've queued up the value of 24 but

it will only actually send when I hold

that toggle another thing you can do

Changing the Switch Label

with the scrolling mode of course is

actually change that switch name let's

go to switch two

change the switch name

and then you can see

that we've changed the label here

so you can just change that to up and

down or you could change it to the

particular preset name or a direction

you could write forwards and backwards

you can really do anything you want

there of course and as I've said before

Web Editor

you can use the web editor at

edit.pirate midi.com and you can just

type all those things in and it makes it

really fast

for tutorials on the web editor look out

for some future videos covering how to

do everything we've covered in these

videos in the web editor okay now let me

Adding MIDI Messages

show you how to set up an actual midi

message to be sent when you're using the

scrolling mode we'll enter the menu on

our Bridge six here

go to our switch 2 which is our primary

scrolling switch you won't be setting

these midi messages on the linked switch

because it's just linked to whatever's

being controlled with switch 2. so let's

go into the messages and we'll go

backwards because that gets us straight

to the scrolling message stack

now let's set some messages

let's edit this one so currently what's

happening is we've got a control change

here on channel one with number one and

value 127 and what that means is the

Setting Initial Scroll Value

first time you press the scrolling

switch it will increment this value from

the starting value of 127. so what will

happen is it will send CC1 value 0 if

your step is set to one because that

will just increment it from 127 up to

zero

and then if you press it again it will

increment it to one however if you want

to start at a specific value you can

just set the value

to something different so when you press

that switch the first time now it will

go from 120 up to 121 or

127 if you set the increment as seven

Scrolling Multiple Messages

let's save that

and now you can actually add another

message to this stack so we can add a

sorry another control change we'll send

on channel 2 and this can be number

seven and we're going to start with a

value of three and what this means is

that now every time we press that switch

it will now scroll both of those

messages at once so it will send

CC1 value 120 and increment that and at

the same time also with the same foot

switch press send cc7 on channel 2 and

increment that one from value 3 to value

so you can add a bunch of messages here

let's add a whole bunch

Scrolling Limits

so you can add up to 16 messages in the

scrolling stack and all 16 of those

messages can be incremented from

whatever starting value you choose with

one press of a foot switch something

Smart Messages

else you might want to do with your

scrolling switch is Skip to particular

values at some point and with our smart

messages you can use those on any other

foot switch to do just that let's go

into switch one and set some smart

messages on our toggle on message stack

edit this message that's here we'll

change it to a Smart message

and then as you can see we can get some

smart messages which are specifically

designed for the scrolling modes

Reset Scrolling

so you can set switch one to reset the

scrolling position back to its initial

value immediately

Increment/Decrement Value

you can increment the scrolling value

with something else so this is similar I

suppose to the scrolling link switch

where you can control the actual

scrolling primary switch with another

switch but this one can have separate

rules so this is just incrementing

whereas your scrolling linked you could

have that doing a particular thing like

pendulum or it could be set to a

different value a different step value

for scrolling say your primary could be

set to steps of two but your reverse

could be set to steps of one it's really

really flexible and then on top of

increment you've obviously got your

Targeting a Particular Message

decrement on top of increment and

decrement messages we've also got smart

messages to go to particular scrolling

messages and Target just that one

message in the stack instead of doing

all of the messages in the stack at once

so here we have set step scrolling and

the step corresponds to which number in

the scrolling message stack you want to

Target so say I've got three messages in

there and I just want to use a switch to

make sure that I'm only sending out a

scrolling value for step two

so let me save this

here and show you what I mean

now when I toggle on footswitch1 this

switch the scrolling switch will now no

longer send all the messages in the

scrolling stack it will just send the

second message in the scrolling stack

because that's what I've activated now

Other Smart Messages

the other smart messages

for scrolling can do similar things cue

next scrolling will get the next message

in the stack

instead of just choosing a specific one

Q scrolling will bring up the next

message so the next time you press it it

will send the second message in the

stack so just to reiterate to be nice

and clear the steps here correspond to

the numbered message in the scrolling

message stack which has a limit of 16

messages

and if you choose step six it will go to

the sixth message there and when you use

the scrolling action it will only be

sending out that message and scrolling

the value of that message all the others

will be ignored that covers all the

Outro

smart messages for the scrolling mode it

covers the settings of the scrolling

mode if you have any questions please

leave them down in the comments or

via Facebook thanks very much bye

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7. Scrolling Mode

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Basic Introduction

0. Unboxing

1. Basic Navigation

2. Interface Settings

Overview of Features

3. Flexiports Introduction

4. Expression Pedals

5. Switch Modes

6. Sequential Mode

7. Scrolling Mode

8. MIDI Settings

9. Switch Groups

10. Factory Reset & Checking Firmware

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