How MIDI can level up your worship rig

This video walks through how I'm using the Morningstar MC6 Pro, and how you can simplify your workflow using MIDI ⚡️

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My Gear Essentials:

🎸 Guitars:

🎛️ Board (Signal Chain):

🔈 Miscellaneous:

Time Stamps:
0:00 How I'm using MIDI to simplify my rig
1:25 What is MIDI?
1:47 Using MIDI with REVERB
3:43 Reverb play test using MIDI
4:44 Using MIDI with DELAY
7:07 Delay play test using MIDI
7:36 MIDI tricks for setting BPM
10:52 Using MIDI with OVERDRIVE
14:31 Overdrive play test using MIDI
14:45 Using MIDI with a BOOST
16:20 Boost play test using MIDI
16:44 My goal with using MIDI

[SamWittek]

This video really just scratches the surface for the amount of power the Morningstar MC6 Pro can punch. I had a ton of fun making this one, and I’m constantly dreaming up new ideas to try with MIDI. Do you guys want to see more MIDI videos?

[StuartwasDrinkell]

Really useful I'm just starting to introduce midi to my board... I want your organisation! God bless and thanks for the great explanation.

[benjaminmontalvo]

Amazing what you did on the BPM section. Thanks for sharing.

[CkngHm]

Great video! Love the idea of using midi to make the board more accessible while minimizing time programming! One can always go back and program every song if they like, but quickly can have something that will always be highly functional.

[JimIerley]

Thanks for producing these outstanding videos on how to build a live board with fast access to the essential ingredients of tone! I’m now using two of your ideas on my MC8, the more/less reverb buttons and the BPM selector. My other 5 first page buttons are Clean, Rhythm, Lead, Digital delay, and Tape delay. Whenever I need a new delay preset I long press on either delay button and jump to a bank of 1/8 & 3/16 options, each with low, medium, and high mix varieties.

[GhostofMozart]

just upgraded my board. also got the mc6pro and the ml10x(looper switch from morning star) it's a LEARNING EXPERIENCE to get this all dialed in correctly but thank you for this video. My church very much so does spontaneous worship the majority of the time and we don't use a click at the moment (i know, we gotta change that lol). That being said, i've never been a fan of having presets for songs specifically and wanted more of a video example of ways i could set up the controller for just different sounds in general. This was PERFECT.

[mattjerman]

The video we all needed! Thanks for this!

[komobabo]

I’d love to see more videos like this. I am looking to buy a MIDI since I am getting tired of tap dancing. I was looking at this one precisely so this just sealed the deal for me.

[jonathanllewellyn]

Hey Sam, love the content btw :) I have just got my MC6 Pro and looking to replicate what you did with the timeline delay pedal (5min 17 sec in the video) where it cycles through 6 different presets on 1 switch but I am struggling to find the best solution to do this in the configurator. From what I can see the toggle mode allows 2 different states. So I assume its not that. I cant see a CC change that makes sense so I assume its a PC but struggling to find the solution any help would be appreciated.

[abelinolopez]

Bro i love your tone it sounds amazing

[soundwithsilence]

Very clever using MIDI + the B switch on the Timeline!

[harryvanderploeg]

So did you send the Big Sky 6 messages from switch A with the last one basically the same as the first one on order to increase the reverb then return it to the minimum?

[marekurbanowicz]

What midi cables you use? It's so hard to find compact midi cables with angle jacks

[idakamusic]

Hey sam, Im interested in this controller, but my main question is this: I play at church like most of us and I want the tap tempo to line up with the click so the repeats on my delay are exact. I have a lot of parts that become very obvious when repeats are slightly off time. Is there a way to program change the bpm and then tap the 1 so that the MC6 pro can snap the tempo on closest to the time of the song in the room?

[windowsoflife]

I just grabbed an MC6 Pro and an Eventide H90. I have lots of other pedals, but I’d like to build a hybrid board, with analog overdrives, and a few other analog pedals after the H90 like trem/verb, perhaps more… but I’d like to use the H90 and MC6 Pro like stand alone effects programmed for on the fly live playing.

I’m new to midi and feel intimidated by the learning curve (time required). Do you have any recommendations to help me gain ways to set up the H90 w MC6?

After I get that level going I may add a few more midi pedals to compensate for the two at a time algorithms of H90.

[sea]

Hey Sam! Awesome video! Always love your content!

Am just wondering if its possible to access the Nixie through your MC6pro?

[cooperwaugh]

What message are you sending for scrolling between presets A, B and C on your BigSky? I can’t figure out how to do that with one button push on the Morningstar. I can do it with 1 click is A, double is B and long press is C, not ideal in the moment of a song.

[JacobMendoza-ew]

hey, great content! Could you do another video going thru the connections of your midi pedals to the MC6? Greetings from the Philippines!

[lambdigital]

Great video. How do you have your MC6 Pro Editor settings set up that allow you to navigate sequentially navigate presets with just one tap? I know Toggle Mode allows you two set up what happens on Tap 1 and then Tap 2, but I can't figure out how you're navigating through so many presets with just on tap? Can you share what your settings are in the editor?

[EothaG]

Hello Sam, can any of the Omni Ports on the morningstar be used to switch on/off non midi pedals such as a TC Electronics Corona Chorus or would I need to use morningstar ML10X for that?