8. MIDI Control

<p>XTONE Pro has 6 smart foot switches and 1 expression pedal interface for playing control. When you press them, Pro sends MIDI CC commands out via the USB and MIDI OUT interface. When a valid MIDI command is received on the MIDI IN interface, Pro will also forward it to the USB and MIDI OUT interface in real time.</p> <p>Nowadays, software effects have very powerful MIDI control systems. With Pro’s foot switches and expression pedal, you can do whatever control you want. For details, read the MIDI specification chapter below.</p> <h4>MIDI Command Group</h4> <p>XTONE Pro has three MIDI command groups, each group corresponds to 7 different value of MIDI CC commands.</p> <p>Long press A, B, C foot switch can be switched to the corresponding group, different groups show different LED colors:</p> <div><center><p style="color:green;">A group - green</p><p style="color:blue;"> B group - blue</p><p style="color:red;"> C group - red</p></center></div>Different MIDI command groups, 6 foot switches + 1 expression pedal can send 7 different MIDI commands, which means XTONE Pro can send 3 x 7 = 21 different MIDI commands, control 21 different parameters in the software. The following lists the MIDI CC values corresponding to the foot switch and expression pedal in the three MIDI command groups. <div><center></center></div> #### MIDI Command Mode XTONE Pro has 3 MIDI command modes, <div><center><p style="color:green;">Press A+B switch to Mode 1</p><p style="color:blue;"> Press A+C switch to Mode 2</p><p style="color:red;"> Press B+C switch to Mode 3</p></center></div>When the switch is successful,** Mode 1 blinking green, Mode 2 blinking blue, Mode 3 blinking red. ** Different APP may use different command modes, **If you find an abnormality when using foot switch, you should try switching to the other two control modes.** <div><center><p style="color:green;">Mode 1</p>For JamUp, BIAS FX, AmpKit+, etc. Most other software effects also work for this mode.<p style="color:blue;"> Mode 2</p>For Guitar Rig(Disable Hold Mode), Amplitube(Switch Presets), VocaLive(Switch Presets), etc.<p style="color:red;"> Mode 3</p>For Guitar Rig(Enable Hold Mode), ToneStack, AmpliTube(Toggle Mode), VocaLive(Toggle Mode), etc.</center></div> <div><center></center></div> ***MODE1(Latching): Send 127 only. MODE2(Momentary): Send 0 and 127. MODE3(Toggle): send o and 127.*** ####MIDI PC Control Commands (Only support equipment produced in 2021) XTONE can switch to the MIDI PC (Program Change) control commands. If you don’t need MIDI PC to control your effects, please ignore this part. When your product is not powered on (not connected to any device or external power), press and hold the Footswitch A and then power on (connect to the device) to turn on the XTONE MIDI PC command mode. After the indicator blinks green one time, release the footswitch. The MIDI PC values are as follows:  If you want to turn off the MIDI PC (Program Change) function and back to default MIDI CC Mode, just repeat the above steps to switch back. #### Expression pedal Polarity of the EXP IN of XTONE/XTONE Pro Tip: Input Ring: Output Sleeve: Ground <div><center> </center></div> XTONE/XTONE Pro needs to use RTS expression pedal. Please refer to http://expressionpedals.com/list-of-expression-pedals to ensure that the polarity of your expression pedal is consistent with XTONE / XTONE Pro. Mismatched polarity may result in damage to the XTONE / XTONE Pro. We recommend ZOOM FP02M as the expression pedal of XTONE/XTONE Pro. Also,the expression pedal with polarity switch such as Nektar NX-P works, too. If you can't confirm the polarity of the expression pedal,you can try: 1. If when you plug in the expresiion pedal,the XTONE will shut down, it means the polarity does not match or you are not use TRS cable. 2. Please MIDI map a wah or volume parameter in the effects app you use, and then step on the expression pedal from the beginning to the end at a constant speed, and determine whether the range of the parameter matches and whether the control is linear. If not, it means the polarity does not match. **RTS expression pedal list:** <div></div> | Brand | Model | | :------------ | :------------ | | Alesis | F2 | | AMT | EX-50 | | Beringher | FCV-1002 | | Beringher | FC-600 | | Bespeco | VM18LU | | Bespeco | VM13ZUM | | Digitech | DOD mini expression | | EHX | Performance | | EHX | Performance Dual Expression | | Fatar | VP-26 | | Korg | EXP-2 | | Korg | XVP-10 | | Korg | XVP-20 | | M-Audio | EX-P | | Mooer | Expline | | Mission engineering | EP-1R | | Mission engineering | SP-1R | | Mission engineering | EP-25 Pro aero | | Mission engineering |SP-25M Pro aero | | Mission engineering | SP-25L Pro aero | | Nektar | NX-P | | Oz Inventions | Xpression fX12 Motion | | Oz Inventions | Xpression fX21 TRS Enhancer | | Proline | PXP1 | | Rocktron | Hex | | Rocktron | Utopia | | Source Audio | Reflex | | Source Audio | Hot hand 313 | | Thru-Tone | EX-S | | Thru-Tone | EX-ULT | | Zoom | FP02M | | Zoom | FP02 | | Zoom | FP01 | If you want to use TRS expression pedal, you need to flip the TRS cable polarity. You can solder or buy a TRS polarity adapter. <div> <center></center> </div> #### Change Expression pedal polarity (Only support equipment produced start from 2021) If you have a problem with the expression pedal, you can reverse the polarity of XTONE PRO EXP IN. The switch is in XTONE PRO built-in removed the back cover you can see the switch. (The default polarity is RTS)