How to Control Your Yamaha THRII with the XSonic Airstep LITE and MORE!

Every few years a new piece of gear comes out and changes everything. In the olden days, you would have to spend hours and hours trying to figure out how to get all of your MIDI devices to talk to each other. You spent hours and hours building the most insane tones amongst your effects pedals, rack gear, audio plug-ins and digital amps only to find out that you had to become an entry level computer scientist just to get everything working. Well, not anymore, thanks to XSonic and the Airstep and Airstep LITE. I was able to load a simple preset made by the XSonic team and voila, I was controlling channel switching and effects parameters within minutes, wirelessly via bluetooth. The Airstep is an amazing tool; control your camera, computer keyboards, DAW workstations, effects pedals, KZbin, and so much more!
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[@jeffmilkey]

Hey Drew. Thanks for doing this...I think a follow up video would be really helpful after you have gone through and figured more out.

[@DrewCreal]

Hey Jeff, I've got some new Airstep videos out this week and more coming soon!

[@chris60036]

This is awesome. Sooooo many people have been looking for this

[@DrewCreal]

Thanks Chris.

[@McVandewalle]

Thank you for this nice video about THR controlling. As a THR30w owner, I’m trying to control my practise amp with a Behringer FCB1010 (UNO equipped), through the THR remote installed on a Macbook Pro 2012 (High Sierra). Wired Midi is ensured via an iRig Pro. Actually, it’s effective: Footswitches 1 to 5 control THR presets 1 to 5; footswitches 6 to 8 control THR FX (modulation, delay, reverb), and footswitch 10 acts as a Tap tempo. Exp pedals are also effective, but I’m still not sure to use them in my setup. The concern I have, and it’s a major one, is the lack of communication from THR Remote to my pedalboard. This is very annoying since I can’t trust the on/off effects from my fcb1010, in correlation with the FX (de)activated in the current THR preset. For sure, I have to investigate this concern... Anyone an idea?

[@DrewCreal]

That's pretty cool that you hooked up the FCB1010 to control your THR. That's a huge pedal though! I like the Airstep because it maintains a solid connection and the pedal is relatively small. It even fits in the THT carrying bag. Thanks for watching and good luck with your setup!

[@thegosson1]

This question has been asked before but not answered. I too would like to hear the answer to this question. Basically after tweaking “tones” and assigning buttons to do certain functions and saving etc. Is it still necessary to have apps running on say iPad or phone? Or is it possible to do all your setup and then put phones and iPads away, and just be able to pick up your guitar turn on the Airstep and THR and it will function as you had previously set it up to function. Your going to say that there is a dedicated airstep yt for thr. But what I can see from it, it’s not as flexible as the airstep light or regular airstep. I don’t want to be stuck with the way they have assigned the functions etc. So in a nut shell do apps have to be running while using this with a THR ? Keep up the great work.

[@PeterEgmose]

Thank you very much🙏 Extremely helpful video!

[@DrewCreal]

Thank you for watching Peter!

[@blaisestmaryfan]

Thanks for the tutorial. I have a question: After you set up the Airstep Lite via the Yamaha app do you have to remain linked to the app to use the Airstep or are your settings saved within the Airstep, allowing you to shut down the app? In short: are your Airstep settings dependent on a running THR Remote app? Thank you!

[@TySutherland]

Super helpful. Thanks man!

[@DrewCreal]

I'm glad this helped, thanks for watching.

[@benjaminifraimov5190]

Great review. Question: Can you still play jam tracks from your device to the Thr after connecting the air pedal via Bluetooth? What I mean is will it still be able to play tacks through Bluetooth while the foot switch is connected? Thanks!

[@DrewCreal]

Yes, you can still play along with backing tracks while the Airstep is connected!

[@daltonlouzada627]

Very good! Thanks man!

[@DrewCreal]

Glad to help!

[@BbYyTtOo]

Can You assighn 5 of your own prests, talking about 5 "user memory" buttons?

[@solotralafolla]

Cool. i need one for my spark40

[@DrewCreal]

It works great with the Spark!

[@daniel1825]

Do you need the wireless version of the amp to use this ):

[@CarolDailey]

Okay, we need an update video now. How to stack the inputs? Why isn’t this a available anywhere?

[@DrewCreal]

Hey there, are you referring to controlling multiple devices with one command?

[@psi-ops1397]

"Trusty" ipad...great sense of humor :-P

[@DrewCreal]

😁

[@seveneleven315]

I wonder, if the iPad is always needed or if the Airstep can also direct connect to the THR?

[@Bri5150]

Great video! Just what I'm looking for to use with my THR30ii. Did they ever update the app to include the thr30ii?

[@DrewCreal]

XSonic has a new controller out directly controls the THR, and you can flash over your AirStep LITE to directly control your THR. I've got some new videos on how to do this coming out very soon.

[@1tdillon]

Question: For controlling effects, does this only do Chorus, Delay, and Reverb? What about controlling the Phase and Flanger ala Unchained (VH)? Not familiar with the THR interface, but noticed you were only adjust the three previously mentioned effects.

[@DrewCreal]

The different parameters of each THR effect can be controlled with the AirStep LITE, you just have to program them to be controlled using the THR app as shown in this video.

[@Xzvsc]

Why I can't get nice high gain tone for metal like dream theater etc. It always ended up sounding kinda dry and harsh. I'm using Yamaha pac612 (TB14) and via amp line out

[@DrewCreal]

Sounds like you've got a really nice guitar! To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the direct out sound for recording. I almost think it would be better to mic the amp for recording. Or just a mixture of direct and mic.

[@BassOntario]

Can you use the airstep plus plug in a wireless guitar system or can you only do one or the other.?

[@DrewCreal]

You can use both. The Airstep uses Bluetooth and the wireless uses something else.

[@szakalszaleniec]

After initial setup via iOS bridge app - is it required to always turn on app on iOS? Or can I use Airstep and Thr together, without any app (after initial setup)?

[@DrewCreal]

Unfortunately there's no background operation available with the iOS version of the THR app, you have to have the app up and open to use the switch. I'm sure they are only a few updates away from solving that issue. The issue comes from Yamaha, not any of the bluetooth switch makers.

[@allicouldbleed]

What is the delay in switching presets? Is there a sound interruption?

[@DrewCreal]

Minimal delay when switching between presets, probably .5ms if I had to guess. With the new Airstep YT there is no delay because it is a direct BT connection.

[@simonmaton]

Thanks for that! One thing you didn't make clear was if you need to have the app for both devices running on an iOS device to control the amp?. Have you tried Positive Grid BT-4 pedal with the THR? I am struggling to get my BT-4 pedal to control my THR30II. The THR app does not see the BT-4 (or it's app) as a bluetooth device, whereas I can see both devices with MidiFire, but when I try to send a midi command (PC or CC), the THR app does not respond! Sorry to highjack your thread but I really need help and there is not too much info out there! :-) Regards Simon

[@DrewCreal]

Hey Simon, sorry I'm getting back to you so late. Have you checked out my newer Airstep videos? You can actually directly connect the Airstep LITE (or Airstep YT) to the THR, no app required.

[@DrewCreal]

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[@Quesoe]

Do you happen to know if you can hook up expression pedals (for volume swells) on the Airstep LITE? I believe you can on the standard version but am not sure about the LITE version.

[@DrewCreal]

There's no hardware connections available on the Airstep LITE.

[@pepppery]

There is an update that mentions expression pedals for 9.1.2 update. I dont know what that means tbh, but it does mention it

[@ohmura07]

Does it work on the Yamaha THR10X Metal amp ?

[@DrewCreal]

Unfortunately it does not because the THR10X does not have Bluetooth.

[@jmacie]

I have a positive grid Spark amp. Anyone know where I can get some help connecting to my airstep? Thanks, If I get it I'll report back as it's not out there yet.

[@DrewCreal]

Just choose the BIAS FX preset in the Airstep app.

[@jmacie]

@@DrewCreal Thanks a lot. I'll have to keep trying. Somethings not connecting. I connected airstep to iPad, wrote biasfx to a preset, connected spark amp to iPad app, and presets won't change via airstrip.I didn't do any other steps. I'll keep trying, thanks for your help.

[@jmacie]

I think I've narrowed down the problem. Your amp use midi cc to change, I need HID to change my Spark amp, and I am still trying to find someone to tell me the right key values to put in. I appreciate your help

[@GahMehGrrrr]

wont touch apple. An effects loop would be more useful to me

[@DrewCreal]

Luckily the Airstep works with either Apple or PC.

[@garyt3hsna1l82]

Dude i bought one of those a few months ago and couldn't get it to work =\ All my computer tech is too old and I don't have anything with the current generation of wifi 6. my macbook pro is 10 years old (wifi2) all my desktops aren't wifi equipped, I have android so it wont run apple shit. tech is so frustrating sometimes. they did refund my order though so i was only out the return shipping. Buyer beware though if your have peasant tech.

[@DrewCreal]

Sounds like you need to update your gear Gary! Sorry it didn't work out for you.

[@garyt3hsna1l82]

@@DrewCreal story of my life lol.

[@sethgross3904]

Lol the airstep is nearly as much as the thr10ii

[@DrewCreal]

It's $179 for the Airstep Lite, although XSonic has now released an Airstep YT for $99, not bad if you ask me considering that the Airstep LITE can control and slew of devices.