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- Page 1 MIDI Maestro Manual Firmware 1.1.5 App firmware delight-6...
- Page 2 In order to benefit from all the latest features, it is necessary to have the most recent firmware version installed. To check the Firmware version on your MIDI Maestro, press the Mode button on the back panel to go to the Main Menu, the firmware version will show in the lower left screen.
- Page 3 Table of Contents 1. Introduction Understanding the MIDI Maestro 2. Connections Powering and connecting the pedal to everything 3. Using the MIDI Maestro Navigating the MIDI Maestro, connecting to devices, and the visual display 4. MIDI Everything you need to know 5.
- Page 4 Introduction The MIDI Maestro places the full power of MIDI control at your feet. Make the most of any setup by choosing exactly how you want your MIDI commands to be arranged and control up to 16 MIDI channels independently. The functions of each button on the MIDI Maestro can be edited with the MIDI Maestro smartphone app.
- Page 5 If this total is more Amps than your power supply can produce (for example, the total of all of your pedals plus the MIDI Maestro is 2.5 Amps but your power supply can only produce 2.0 Amps), then the MIDI Maestro won’t turn on (neither will any of your other pedals), because there isn’t enough power available.
- Page 6 Maestro, and update/add a custom mode. Simply press and hold the Pairing button on the back panel until the tiny blue light on the top of the MIDI Maestro front panel begins to blink. If the light is solid, that means a bluetooth connection has been established.
- Page 7 Using the MIDI Maestro First Use Turn on the MIDI Maestro by pressing the On/Off button on the back panel, the blue LED screens will light up and you should see something like this: Menu The MIDI Maestro menu is navigated by pressing one of the 6 buttons: •...
- Page 8 Press and hold the Pairing button on the back panel so the MIDI Maestro is in pairing mode. Open up the MIDI Maestro phone app (we’ll call it the MM app) and press the upper left menu button.
- Page 9 A command is a specific MIDI message (CC, PC, PB, Note On/Off — read more on this in section 4 MIDI pg. 10) that is sent from the MIDI Maestro to a slave MIDI device. MIDI commands can be sent via a MIDI cable and/or wirelessly over MIDI BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy).
- Page 10 Footswitch+ (sold separately). If you are not using a Footswitch+, make sure that the third party footswitch is compatible with the MIDI Maestro. The MIDI Maestro is compatible with standard momentary dual footswitches which have a single TRS ¼” output (one switch is connected to the Left channel and the other to the Right).
- Page 11 Device A and get sent down the chain. It cannot be sent the other way around (from B back to A). The MIDI Maestro is most likely going to be the main emitter device, so it would be first in the chain.
- Page 12 CC 40 value 1 (can represent an Unmute command). Each button on the MIDI Maestro can toggle, so they can either have two states (toggle is on), or not toggle at all — so they would send the same messages every time you activate the button.
- Page 13 127 being as “hard” as the note can sound. Imagine the difference between a drummer tapping a snare with their drumstick lightly and them hitting the snare with all their force. Although velocity and volume are related, they are not the same thing. MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 14 64 - Low Conga 79 - Open Cuica 48 - Hi-Mid Tom 65 - High Timbale 80 - Mute Triangle 49- Crash Cymbal 1 66 - Low Timbale 81-Open Triangle 50 - High Tom 51 - Ride Cymbal 1 MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 15 • 22 Harmonica • 54 Synth Choir • 55 Orchestra Hit • 56 Trumpet • 57 Trombone • 58 Tuba • 59 Muted Trumpet • 60 French Horn • 61 Brass Section • 62 Synth Brass 1 MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 16 • 95 Pad 8 (sweep) • 119 Reverse Cymbal Sound effects • 120 Guitar Fret Noise • 121 Breath Noise • 122 Seashore • 123 Bird Tweet • 124 Telephone Ring • 125 Helicopter • 126 Applause • 127 Gunshot MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 17 LSB Bank command which uses CC:32, this is a standard for MIDI devices. If you use the Singular Sound BeatBuddy, you will find it needs a PC command to use CC:0 and C:32. Read more about how the BeatBuddy behaves using MSB and LSB on pg.
- Page 18 Ask the MIDI gods (a.k.a the Gearslutz forum). So back to where we were, if you send CC:0 value 1, CC:32 value 1, and PC:1, that will equal 16513 (16384 +128 +1). This is shown in the chart below. Have your calculator handy! MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 19 A more specific example of using the MSB and LSB commands is when selecting songs on the Singular Sound BeatBuddy. Please take note, the BeatBuddy does not create a giant sum value from the MSB LSB and PC commands, it only uses the MSB and LSB commands to select the folder and subfolder, and then the PC command selects the song in the sub-folder.
- Page 20 CC commands to be treated just like a bank MSB and bank LSB. These can be set to a range of parameters on different devices. One example is how the Singular Sound BeatBuddy sets the tempo. MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 21 Currently we’re only using it to control tempo, but we follow the MIDI Standard protocol to leave room for further control in the future. Because of this capability for multiple parameter control, the steps below are followed. INC/DEC (see https://www.midi.org/specifications) MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 22 Tempo can only be set with both MSB (CC:106) and LSB (CC:107). Take note, the BeatBuddy does not need to access numbers larger than 16384, so it uses MSB and LSB math without the PC command added. Check out how the math works in the table below. MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 23 2. LSB value o Don't forget, the value of the Tempo can only be set with both MSB (CC:106) and LSB (CC:107). Here are a few examples of MIDI message combinations: Find out more about general MIDI mapping here. MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 24 Singular Sound BeatBuddy and/or Aeros Loop Studio with the MIDI Maestro. Remember that every button on the MIDI Maestro can have up to 8 different MIDI commands per button. This can be doubled by adding a toggle to the button, learn more...
- Page 25 The Modes MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 26 The Modes AEROS Mode MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 27 The Modes MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 28 The Modes Custom Mode You have the power to make or download any MIDI mapping you’d like, read the next section, MIDI Maestro Smartphone App, to learn how to create a custom mode using the MM app. MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 29 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App Getting started First, download the free MIDI Maestro Smartphone App (we’ll call it the MM app for short). You can find the app on the Google Play Store Apple Store by searching “Singular Sound MIDI Maestro”.
- Page 30 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App This is the main screen of the MM app, from this screen you can edit the Button Layout of the commands being sent. Read more about Custom Modes on pg. To access other parts of the app and see the current firmware version press the Menu button At the bottom of the screen, you will find the app version in grey text.
- Page 31 Maestro’s back panel to enter pairing mode (you do not have to connect your phone directly to the MIDI Maestro using bluetooth in order to use it with the MM app, you just need to have your phone’s bluetooth enabled). Once the blue light at the top of the MIDI Maestro’s front panel is blinking, press Update...
- Page 32 The MM app gives you the ability to create any configuration of commands into your own custom mode for use on the MIDI Maestro. You can program every button on each MIDI Maestro page. A Custom Mode can have up to 10 pages. You can create a template of the Custom Mode of the beatbuddy or the Aeros default modes.
- Page 33 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App Your locally stored Custom Modes can be found and created in the My Custom Modes screen which is accessible from the Main Menu. MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 34 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App My Custom Modes Screen From this screen you can delete, edit, share and search for all locally saved custom modes. All downloaded modes will appear here. Your app will automatically be open on your first blank Mode, it will be called “My First Mode”, you can change this name later, delete it, or create a new one...
- Page 35 A Page on the MM app is equivalent to a page on the MIDI Maestro, meaning page 1 on the MM app affects only page 1 on the MIDI Maestro. Each MM app page has 6 slots, meant to represent the 6 MIDI Maestro screens. You can switch pages by pressing the blue left and right arrows.
- Page 36 The text you write here will be displayed on the corresponding MIDI Maestro screen once you upload your Custom Mode to the MIDI Maestro. This is also where you will add all the commands that will be sent with this button action.
- Page 37 Note that when a toggle is enabled, the new button action state can have its own name. For example, the first state would show the name Pause, and the second name would say Unpause. So the screen on the MIDI Maestro would switch back and forth with every button action.
- Page 38 You can use the search bar to look for your command. You can also edit existing commands by pressing the edit icon ,delete the command , or upload the command to the Singular Sound server for others to download MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 39 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App Command Editing If you create a new command, you will see the following screen with empty fields: Fill in the text fields with the appropriate information. MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 40 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App Common Fields Command Name - Create a name for your command. Device(s) - Name the device this command is mapped for. Description - Describe what this command does. Type - Choose the type of MIDI message being sent (CC, PC, PB, Note On/Off).
- Page 41 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App Program Change (PC) • Value - Sets the specific PC command. Note On/ Off • Note - Sets the note played back by receiving device. Middle C= 60, half- steps are equal to 1. • Velocity - Sets the Velocity of the note playback. This has to do with how loud the sound is played dynamically, it is related to volume but is not the same.
- Page 42 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App Editing an Existing Command Any existing command can be edited from the My Commands screen by pressing this icon , you can access the My Commands screen from the MM app Main Menu (press ‘My Commands’), or when adding commands to the Button Setup.
- Page 43 (how the message is sent), and the option to remove. Trigger On-Press - This command will be sent when the MIDI Maestro Button is pressed. Up to 8 commands can be sent on the press. On-Release - This command will be sent when the MIDI Maestro Button is released.
- Page 44 - This command will be sent wirelessly via BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) MIDI from the MIDI Maestro. There must be a BLE MIDI connection for this to work. There can be up to 4 BLE commands sent per toggle state.
- Page 45 Once you have finished mapping the Custom Mode on the app, you can upload it to the MIDI Maestro. Turn on the MIDI Maestro and press the Pairing button on the back panel until the Blue LED light on the front panel is blinking. Then, using the MM app, hit the Upload button in the top right corner of the screen to begin the upload.
- Page 46 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App Sharing and Downloading Modes and Commands Any Custom Mode and Command can be shared for other users to download. To share a command you must open the My Commands screen which you can access from the Main Menu or when adding commands to your Button Setup. Press the share button to share the command.
- Page 47 MIDI Maestro Smartphone App To download a Custom Mode, go to the Custom Modes Library page from the Main Menu and you can search for a Custom Mode by its name. Once you have found the Mode, press the download button to add it to your My Custom Modes screen.
- Page 48 • Custom mode can contain up to 10 pages of 6 individual button setups, each button setup can contain up to 16 MIDI commands • Wireless MIDI over Bluetooth BLE • Input Power: 9v, Center Negative, 300 mA MIDI Maestro Manual...
- Page 49 Most issues can be solved by writing to us at support@singularsound.com If we cannot help you fix the problem, we may have you send the MIDI Maestro in for servicing. The warranty remains valid only if the serial number on the unit is not defaced or removed.
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