Helix/HX Stomp Command Center - Send Commands to Other Music Gear

[@MichaelWuerth]

This, and several of your other videos, have made learning the HX Stomp SO easy! Thank you!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Glad it helped!

[@sumgui6010]

So glad you used ableton, been searching for an easy way to figure out a few things and you nailed it. Love the fact that it just "learns" the midi command that is being sent!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

“Learn” is so helpful!

[@marcusbeyer8481]

Fantastic info (and your presentation is fun too) and you just sold me on the hx stomp; I wanted to be sure I could send specific pc and cc messages to other midi pedals with each preset, and you showed me exactly how

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@withaloudnoise7872]

Thanks. I just learned how to completely control everything from my HX Stomp in ten minutes. Very concise and well delivered. I can almost forgive the dog confetti you have all over your Stomp - actually I can relate as I have a Saint Bernard that likes to leave his shag everywhere. Thanks!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Hahahahaha dude, I wipe down everything every time, and those dog hairs STILL find their way into everything. You should see my helix board, it’s even worse haha

[@juliancorletti8647]

@@ScottUhlMusic 😂😂😂😂 I feel you, I have to change my shoes to play the guitar because i cant do it with the sock I use to walk trough the house

[@alexp1030]

Thanks!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thank you Alex! 🤘

[@Corey_G]

Best HX Stomp Videos..... Thanks For Sharing 😁👍👍👍

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thank you! I love my HX Stomp. It’s what I use at probably 95% of my electric gigs. Glad you are enjoying the videos

[@Corey_G]

@@ScottUhlMusic ...... I actually bought 2, one White & One Black .... so I understand ......lol! 😊👍👍👍 The versatility is incredible now adays .........I am age 50, and have been playing guitar since early 80’s...... I use 13 pin guitars 🎸 these days and love the digital tuning and intonation capabilities that still haven’t quite caught on yet??? I have a Roland VG99 and an Antares ATG-1 ..... I am looking to get back into learning cover songs and creating my own music again. **** Antares ATG-1 or ROLAND VG-99 combined with the HX Stomp allows me to have any tuning at the touch of a button combined with my Boss RC3 looper should be a super setup. I plan on using the looper for backing tracks, or to practice arranging ideas on the guitar. I love MIDI Instruments and capabilities. **** Pick up a 13 Pin guitar 🎸 if you play a lot of cover songs with a device that allows alternate tunings and modeled guitars and you’ll never be the same!!! **** Scott, Have you ever used HX Stomps pitch pedals along with a MIDI message to simulate whammy bar type pitch dives or whammy tremolo ? ...... I’m curious if it can do it well..... I grew up in the 80’s Pop & Metal guitar era and still love “The Police” to “Judas Priest” etc ..... Thanks for Your Video shares 😊👋

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Nice 🤘I usually gig with my Variax JTV59, which is able to do the different tunings and fill different guitar models, and I have a Fishman triple play midi pickup installed on it. So it’s kind of similar to what you are doing. Although I’ve always wanted to try the Antares pedal, those things are pretty sweet by the looks of it! I wish they didn’t discontinue them. As for whammy effects I would imagine an expression pedal would work. I had a small expression pedal when I would need to do a Rage Against The Machine solo and needed the pitch whammy. It wasn’t too bad, and it worked. The newest model of the HX3.0 has a pedal specifically modeled after the digitech whammy, so I’ll have to try that out. Cheers!

[@dottiehunt3340]

The changes in the mIdi values are usually because of differences between brand standards. Roland has used 1-128 and Yamaha has used 0-127 since the early 80’s. Thanks for the video. I have been on the fence about purchasing, but the flexibility of the command center is very attractive.

[@jimjkl7002]

Great work man thanks a lot. Super helpful.

[@christiankremo]

Very handy and straight-forward, thanks for the tip!

[@oratania]

Thank you! That's great tutorial. I would consider to use it when have solo gigs with the laptop. Very handy to be able to send play command for backing tracks.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Glad you found it useful 🤘 and that’s actually how I first started doing this with my POD HD500... I used that to trigger backing tracks. Cheers

[@ivaniusmetal]

Kudos! awesome video!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks!

[@ZeroPointProductions]

subbed from the pointless examples! brilliant

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Come for the programming knowledge.... stay for the pointless ways to use them 😁

[@timfguitar]

This is so helpful! Setting up a Strymon Timeline in the effects loop and sending a program change. Subscribing!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Glad to help, and thanks for the subscription 🤘

[@rmejia]

Great video thanks, i couldn´t find it in any other place

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Glad to help 🤘

[@jcspaziano]

Man this is SUPER useful! Thank you so much! Very well explained.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video!

[@BurnsGear]

Love your videos, Scott! I was following this guide and have now correctly set different actions to Footswitches 1 to 3 but I can't access them anymore through an external MIDI controller which has set 3 buttons to Midi CC 49-51 for Footswitches 1-3 (it works in other presets) - any idea if command center restricts external MIDI access?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Really? Thats odd, I personally just use snapshots, so I haven’t tried that. That would be strange if it canceled out the midi

[@The_PlagueDoctor]

Good stuff here

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video 🤘

[@EdoLeonardi]

Hi Scott, how do you put the change bank on wait mode? If I want to jump for example from bank 1 to bank 3 without the sound changing until I decide which snapshot and on which bank to use. I can't find any videos explaining how to do this. Thanks and greetings from Switzerland

[@ScottUhlMusic]

If I understand you correctly, you press the two buttons together (footswitch 1 and 2 or 2 and 3) and then it will wait for you to change to the new bank. Once you are ready, step on the bank you want to switch to

[@miguelteixeira1979]

Awesome. Can you assign a press and release and a press and hold in the same footswitch, both latching?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

I’ve never tried that, but my guess would be yes. I don’t see why not!

[@miguelteixeira1979]

@@ScottUhlMusic thanks. so it can be used as 10 footswitches... Hummmm

[@andikurnia27]

Nice tutorial, so comprehensive, i have a question, can we program 1 FS to have multi function like activating loop recorder in HX and send MIDI CC to other device?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yup you can do that. Program the footswitch as normal for the loop record, and the use the command center to do the send midi CC on the same footswitch 👍

[@andikurnia27]

@@ScottUhlMusic can it be done with snapshot? Or only in stomp mode? The idea is to start the looper in HX and send CC to a drum machine at the same time...

[@ScottUhlMusic]

@@andikurnia27 I believe it could be done with snapshots, but you'll have to try it out! I've never done it that way

[@leblille4146]

This is the best manual of this functionality anywhere. Well done. Does anybody know if you can send more than one midi CC in one tap? That wasn’t clear to me.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thank you! And I do not believe you can send more than one… although if you get really creative with the command center and buttons it might be possible? But I don’t believe so. Although if you told button one to send CC 25, I believe it might still send CC49 like it’s programmed to? You’ll have to let me know if you can get it to work. Thanks for the comment!

[@braddiver4993]

Was wondering the same thing. Do the instant commands apply to snapshots also? If so then you could send 6 midi commands per switch when in snapshot mode?

[@blee3621]

@@braddiver4993 you are right, you can send a bunch at the same time with a snapshot change but not otherwise.

[@boybitzprod]

Can you control Strymon Bluesky and Timeline with the Helix so I can take out my midi controller?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yup yup! Definitely

[@boybitzprod]

@@ScottUhlMusic I tried it…made it work somehow but it’s literally a guessing game for me. 😅

[@GM-pm7sg]

Great tutorial! Thanks for always. Let me ask you a question. I use Logic Pro X with HX Stomp. I can send successfully "Hotkey" on Command Center, but cannot do "MIDI CC", "CC togl" and "noteon". By design? Is there any way to use them?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Hot key is working but midi cc is not working? The midi cc might not be assigned to anything, or in global settings something isn’t enabled: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppiVh5d4jZyneNE

[@staceycarras3815]

Hi Scott you seem to know your stuff, rare these day's, love your vids !, my son is learning to play the piano on his Mothers 11yr old Roland HP203, it has limited functionality on the actual piano, but has a massive Midi implementation manual to access the insane amount of sounds and effects that are actually inside the device, we also own an HX Stomp and we're hoping to control the piano with the HX stomp for a bunch of presets eg Rhodes sound number ##, and possible assign a control pedal to control the depth of its Panning Tremolo and possibly tab tempo as well.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Nice! Welcome to the world of midi programming. Plan for multiple headache along the way, but to eventually be glad you did it :)

[@staceycarras3815]

@@ScottUhlMusic I might hit you up for help, ok ?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Sounds good!

[@staceycarras3815]

@@ScottUhlMusic I sent you an email, with my request, not sure if you've received it ? Stacey

[@daganhaddad]

to send note on midi messages from helix- trying to get switches to play different notes on fishman tripleplay synth - I see it in command center but it's not triggering ...I assigned the instant command to bring up the patch no problem - but the note I assigned isn't doing anything(set to latching) - I'd much rather have one of the soft synths for a drone than program the note generator within helix

[@ScottUhlMusic]

I use fishman and helix but I’m not understanding what you are trying to do. What is your signal routing and what is your goal?

[@Akapickles]

For some reason my HX stomp is forgetting my instant commands. It is just putting them back to base channel and "0"

[@hugoflores8090]

When in scene mode on the xh stomp if you press a footswitch to change a scene does it also send the assigned command for that footswitch?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yes I believe so, but I’m not 100%

[@hugoflores8090]

@@ScottUhlMusic Ok, thanks.🙂

[@seangray2803]

This and your midi for dummies video have been so useful! Thanks! I just wanted to check, could you use midi from the HX Stomp to change and turn on another pedals bank simultaneously? Like changing the bank of the Stomp and say a Strymon Timeline at the same time half way through a song?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yup you definitely could since the Strymon accepts midi commands. 👍 anything that accepts midi it will work, and if something doesn’t accept midi they have pedals for that as well like the Gig Rig if you want to go all out with it.

[@MauricioBond23]

Hi there, is there a way to toggle between 2 different PC messages (of CC messages) using the same footswitch? Trying to send a Midi message to toggle between 2 El Capistan presets but only using one Footswitch. Thanks!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Hmm… I dunno. Maybe the Keith McMillan controller? I honestly don’t know

[@MauricioBond23]

@@ScottUhlMusic Thanks!! Apparently it can´t be done. The Morningstar MC6 does that since it has a toggle function, and I was wondering if the HX Stomp had it as well. Thanks again.

[@draconianjames]

Hey man! Been following this and works great, only thing I can't figure out is that that tuner on fs3 doesn't change even if I amend it in the command center, any tips?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yup that’s in your global settings. Go to footswitches and set Footswitches 3 to F3. Currently it’s set to Tap/Tuner. Cheers!

[@hugoflores8090]

These videos are f*ckng great. thanks

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Glad you think so!

[@sumithramachandranwatchyou5045]

❤❤👍👍😊