Knife drop setup midi and expression

Hello,

Sorry this is not possible. You must choose to have either an expression pedal, or an aux switch to change the presets. It cannot be both.

If you use a MIDI controller, you can utilize both the preset switching and expression pedal control.

This video demonstrates using the expression pedal connected to adjust a parameter, the aux switch is not being used.

The expression pedal jack settings are described in the QRG here: https://cdn.eventideaudio.com/uploads/2024/10/Knife-Drop-QRG.pdf

If you’d like to use the expression pedal and also change presets, you’ll need to use a MIDI controller. Let me know if you’d like any suggestions.

You’re welcome.

Do you plan on using many guitar pedals that are MIDI capable? There are more complex controllers that can control everything on your board and act as the “brain” of your rig.

For a simple place to start, either of the two below would be a good choice for a small and effective controller:

https://www.morningstar.io/mc3

https://www.disasterareadesigns.com/shop/p/midi-baby-3

Both of these controllers have an expression pedal input, so you would connect the expression pedal to the MIDI controller, and then connect the MIDI controller to the Knife Drop. You can then map your parameters to the expression pedal, and use the footswitches to load up presets.

You could also program the controller to perform the other functions on the pedal, such as turning the octave effect on/off or bypassing the pedal. You may want to consider a MIDI controller with more than 3 footswitches if you plan on using the controller for more than just the preset selection.

I’d suggest looking on youtube for some tutorials of the above MIDI controllers to get a better idea of what they are capable of. There is a lot you can do with MIDI.

Knife drop setup supports MIDI and expression configure in settings

distructoprime wrote:

…help of the kind folks at Disaster Area…

They have excellent customer service.  Glad you got it up & working.  There’s a great deal that can be done with a MIDI Baby 3.  So much, that it can be difficult to sort through all of the parameters in the online editor.

Hi there !

I’m trying to incremant/decremant preset via the hotone ampero control, but it doesn’t have a “count and sent” mode. Does anyone knows how to do the same with momentary cc messages ?

Thanks !

I’m thinking you could use ‘Inc + Load’ and ‘Dec + Load’ from the Global Mapping Chart (unless you just want them cued up)?

i saw this video with the hotone and the mx5 headrush, and i was wondering if i could do the same with the knife drop.

brock wrote:

I’m thinking you could use ‘Inc + Load’ and ‘Dec + Load’ from the Global Mapping Chart (unless you just want them cued up)?

My mistake.  Knife Drop question.