Take control of your pedalboard with MIDI // How I turn my board into a Helix with MIDI

In this video Brian walks through how he programs his midi controller (Morningstar MC8 and ML5) to control almost his entire pedalboard.

Amps:
3rd Power Dual Citizen
3rd Power Dream Weaver

Load Boxes:
UA Ox
Two Notes Captor X

Guitar:
MJT Thinline Tele w/ Porter Vintage Tele pickups

Pedals (in order of signal flow):

Creation Music Co Elevation V2 24x16 board
Creation Music Co Elevation Series Patchbay (x2)
Creation Music Co Elevation Series Power Unit

Creation Music Co Solderless Cable Kit (x2)
Rockboard Midi cables
One Control Midi cables

Morningstar MC8 Midi Controller
Morningstar ML5 Midi Loop Switcher

Power:

Table of contents:
00:00 - Intro/welcome
00:42 - What pedals are being controlled by midi
00:58 - More on the gear and pedals/amp setup
01:27 - A few notes before we get started
02:06 - Programming the first tone
02:30 - Overall bank settings for the song
03:04 - How I'm utilizing my Midi controller's button layout
03:18 - This video is not a course on how midi works
04:03 - Back to the first sound/preset - how each pedal is being controlled via midi
05:59 - First sound/preset demonstration
06:31 - Programming the 2nd preset/sound (Swells!)
07:31 - Swells tone demonstration
07:59 - Now let's hear all the sounds
10:37 - Why would you want to do this? Who is MIDI for?
12:38 - What's to come
12:57 - This is an extreme call to action

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CURRENT GEAR (this is the stuff I currently use to create videos)

Cameras:

Lenses:
For the Blackmagic Pocket 4k:

For the EOS R:

Drones:

Lighting:
The Sun :)

Acoustic Guitars:

In-Ear Monitors:

Capos:
G7th Performance Capos

Cables:

Amps/Pedals:

Bass Guitar:

Recording Interface:
Universal Audio Apollo 8

Microphones:

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[RyanFloydMusic]

I got to the end of the video and I’m already subscribed, so instead I adopted a dog. I just felt so compelled.

[johnbryan]

First YouTube video I’ve seen with an altar call at the end to try to get those subscriptions up.

[MDtheacousticprophet]

I’ve planning on doing the same thing to my board (only with a MC6). Thanks WT team for putting this out! Very insightful.

[ChrisReedGuitar]

I have been using a MC6 and an ML5 with on my board for all my midi devices for about a year now, and it had been nothing but a breeze to play every week. It has allowed me to focus more on my playing and less on trying to change settings and pedals during songs

[NosZogger]

The ending message really got to me. subscribed

[bluzzjazz]

As someone that is fairly proficient with the playing aspect of guitar, I find myself woefully ignorant when it comes to the technology side. I have a pedal board with all the usual suspects, and it is great. MIDI and all the modeling IR, stuff is a bit overwhelming. Then again, I haven't devoted much time to learning it either😀 I did good to upload Miraculum patches to a friend's Helix I used for our Christmas program!

[guitfiddleblue]

I like using MIDI for church. I don’t do any type of “snapshot” but basically just for patch changes/bpm’s/on-off with the Strymon pedals. It’s more convenient than tap dancing but does require some level of preprogramming.

[kristenrocksfrags]

This is so interesting! I just got an MC8, and I have the ML5 on the way so I’m trying to get a head start on the programming before I set everything up. When is it better to use the CC messages for the ML5 rather than just set up the program change for each loop?

[briansnyder]

This is the most interesting worship guitarist ive ever seen; great tones, I've never seen a church that would allow anything that sounds like this

[soundofseventythree]

I have a question. Do your delay and reverb trails get cut off when switching between presets? Thank you for such a great video!

[bonafideguitar]

Can the MorningStar just turn pedals on and off if you’re not concerned with presets what parameter would you look for?

[captain]

I like the new background, I need a cool background for my vids lol

[NateBrotzman]

I noticed that in recent videos there are little blips of footage out of scene with the rest - is this intended or accidental? 1:06 is an example

[TeleCathster]

Hi Brian. Thanks for this. I would love to put a second board with analog pedals and have been thinking about midi. I get how midi enabled pedals work with midi but I’m a bit confused how you get non midi pedals to work with a midi switcher?

[Genesis_Flux]

awesome! was actually thinking about getting a MC6, i love the design of the pedal, as well as the design of the software. super efficient! thank you for the video fortify my decision that a morningstar is the best for me!

looking for a 800K subsciber special? :)

[PJamsTV]

@worshiptutorials I just had a quick question. In helix, you can do multiple delays at the same time. But I'm guessing with this pedalboard, you can do one delay or use dual delay at once right?? Because I'm trying to purchase big sky as a reverb and timeline or dd-500.

[liorodriguez]

Can you guys do a similar video using HX Stomp, GFI Specular T and pedal board. I’d like to see how well the Stomp will do the MIDI thing while trying to be versatile as possible with od pedals and what not. Hope that makes sense. Thanks!

[trebleboost]

Using a Boss ES-8 and love it. Nice Expo Brian! How does the standalone Blackhole compare to the H9 algo? (I have MAX).

[aleksandergrzybowski]

Thanks for great content, I was aware how MIDI commands work, but never saw how to configure it practically. Honestly, not gonna lie, snapshots in Pod Go / Helix look trivial in comparison to the complexity of this MIDI setup :P but yeah, if you want to use traditional board, that's the best way to do it.

[silverxbladeX]

I have the disaster area dmc3xl for my midi controller. I wish it had a desktop editor. I love it but Considering the morning star