Hi Arlo
Hope you're doing well.
We're just in the process of updating our MIDI presets and purposes a bit, which means that we will have quite some commands for different pedal boards and even our light systems as we now can convert MIDI to DMX - super decent!
But that also means there will be quite a number of MIDI presets, that will be more and more difficult to overview. So I thought maybe there's a way to add tags or categories or any sort of filter other than the name of the preset. Currently I can only try to make the name as unique as possible with a prefix, so I can determine what the preset does.
But it would be nice to be able to differentiate them with dedicated fields for that.
I remember you wanted to re-purpose colors and tags at some point as well, maybe the MIDIs are something to take into consideration in those thoughts as well. Or "simply" user defined fields for different purposes or something like that.
Thanks a lot,
Chris
You can set a color for MIDI presets and filter the list by color, or enter notes for MIDI presets and filter the list by notes text.
Colors wouldn't be my first choice, as I'm using the colors for my guitar pedal board to represent the colors on the effects. So I'm pretty much through most of the colors already.
Filtering by notes might be okay, but I cannot show the notes on the list of MIDI presets, so I kind of need to guess which would be the correct notes then?
So maybe if the notes could be shown it would already resolve the situation? :)
Can you describe in more detail what the problem is and what you want to accomplish?
I'll try to explain it as clearly as possible.
In the screenshot you can see how my current MIDI presets are organized. The brown-colored ones are presets for our lightbar. At the moment, this color coding is only temporary, as we've just started testing these presets and they are not final yet. Depending on how the different color modes end up, I will probably adjust the color scheme as well.
The presets in the other colors at the bottom are currently pedalboard presets that are assigned to individual songs. As I continue to assign presets to more songs and add additional presets, this list will inevitably become more and more cluttered.
That's why I think it would be really helpful to have tags or user-defined fields to categorize presets — for example "Lightbar", "Guitar", or even more specific categories like "Ambient" or "Crunch". This would make it much easier to find, adjust, use, and assign presets later on.
With the current list view on the website, I feel that managing a growing number of presets will become increasingly difficult over time.
Maybe I'm a bit picky here, but I thought this perspective might still be helpful.
This isn't quite getting to what the problem is. You said the list is "cluttered." Can you describe a specific task you're doing that is difficult to do now?