Pirates Are A Stomp's Best Friend - HX Stomp with Pirate MIDI Bridge4 / Bridge6 (with free presets)
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- You want spontaneous hands-free access to various effects and settings on your HX Stomp, as you would with a large pedalboard? The Pirate MIDI Bridge4/Bridge6 controllers may be the right tool for you. Here’s a vid to demonstrate their potential; you can download the HX Stomp presets used, the Bridge4/Bridge6 configuration files and a manual for free here:
drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
00:00 - Pre-credit
00:15 - Intro song (Jacob Collier ft. Lizzy McAlpine and John Mayer - Never Gonna Be Alone)
01:06 - First loop / feature demo
04:18 - Second loop / general introduction
08:27 - The “HX Basics” page
10:55 - The “HX Looper CTRL” page
11:08 - Third loop / wah-wah action
13:13 - The “HX Delay” page
14:47 - The “HX Mod&Wham” page: Time-based modulation
15:52 - The “HX Mod&Wham” page: Whammy and pitch
17:21 - The “HX Mod&Wham” page: Tremolo and autopan
21:48 - Fourth loop / looper volume control
22:09 - Preparing three snapshots
23:13 - The “HX Live” page
23:42 - Fifth loop / combining snapshots
24:10 - Sixth loop (Rihanna - Russian Roulette)
26:42 - End credits
Pirate MIDI is a small Australian company that entered the scene back in 2020. I backed their kickstarter crowdfunding, because their Bridge6 MIDI controller seemed very promising. When they also introduced the smaller Bridge4, I decided to get that one. It took a while for the firmware to become ready for primetime, but since v2.0 was released yesterday, it definitely is (I already gigged successfully with a beta version on April 13th, 2024 - long night with 3 different bands/acts, everything went smoothly).
Strengths of the Bridge4/Bridge6 include:
- Dual RGB LEDs per footswitch, great to indicate primary and secondary footswitch functionality statusses.
- Sequential mode: A footswitch in sequential mode can have up to 16 steps with up to 16 messages/MIDI commands. Each step can have its own LED colour, label text, and several messages.
- Smart Messages: Can be used e.g. to jump to specific sequential steps, or scrolling steps, of any footswitch in the active bank.
- Two Flexiports that can be used as MIDI out, Expression pedal in, switch in or out etc.
- A team which works quickly on implementing bug fixes and new features.
Weaknesses include:
- Current firmware (2.0) doesn’t allow “hold to autoscroll” for MIDI commands yet.
- Current firmware doesn’t allow “switching on press” for sequential mode footswitches yet.
- Current firmware doesn’t allow controlling switch statuses on banks outside the current bank yet.
For more info, check the manual under the download link above.
Signal chain for this vid:
1973 Fender Stratocaster into Line 6 HX Stomp, recorded directly through USB to a single Cubase 11 stereo track.
Except introsong, there the Stomp went into the external audio in of my Elektron Analog RYTM mk. II, and from there into a RME Babyface 2, into a single Cubase stereo track.
Only minimal mastering (eq, compression, limiting) added in Cubase.
Filmed with Canon 650D and Sony Alpha 7 (also adding some camera audio), edited in Premiere Pro.
“Never Gonna Be Alone” written by Jacob Collier,
Lizzy McAlpine and John Mayer.
“My Iron Lung” written by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood,
Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway.
“Russian Roulette” written by Shaffer Chimere Smith
a.k.a. Ne-Yo and Charles T. Harmon a.k.a. Chuck Harmony.
All cover songs © by their original writers and publishing companies; covered here in the framework of fair use for educational purposes.
All the rest © 2024 TheGuacamoleXplosion. 
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Spot on , Cheers keep it up.
thx
This is ridiculous in all the best ways ❤❤❤
@simonglover8914 you should really compensate @TheGuacamoleXplosion ! I ordered the Pirate MIDI Bridge4 based on this video 🤔
3 weeks ago
@@ericwillekens thx, I don’t need compensation, only interested in pushing my feature requests up the list 😁
This is amazing! Well programmed, played, and post produced. Congratulations!
And you are giving these files away?! Kudos to you! Already downloaded them, and looking forward to testing things out. Just need to go buy an expression knob now =)
I see you have added json for bridge6 as well. How is that differently configured?
thanks! This is the public version of the files I made ... my private ones are a bit different, since I normally play through real amps, so instead of the amp/cab block, there is a HX effect loop block containing the Kingsley Page TS; and that effect loop block can control the gain and volume of that Kingsley tube overdrive. Also, have the ProStage Remote Wah mounted under the board, so I don't need a HX wah block and still can switch on wah at any time. But delay, reverb and modulation control is identic to my private version 😎
Great video as always!
What do you think about HX Stomp as an audio interface compared to RME? Can you hear the difference in sound quality?
thanks! I haven't thoroughly A/B'ed them yet ... but the Stomp seems not too shabby as audio interface. Since the Stomp is fully digital anyhow, I guess in theory, quality is even better when recording directly from the Stomp via USB, compared to: Same digital signal being D/A converted in the Stomp, then again A/D converted in the RME 🥸
Hey bud, just wondering how to create a 3 button looper control with just the essentials from scratch? The sequential mode has got me scratching my head!
If you want to use it for the Stomp/Stomp XL, too, I would suggest to download my config. If you open two browser windows, each one running the Bridge editor software, you can easily copy/paste a full bank, or a footswitch with all its commands, from one window to the other. So if you just want my looper control bank, copy/paste it. If you just want the REC, PLAY and STOP switches (without the Undo/Reverse one), copy those 3; but make sure to stick with same footswitch numbers, since I use SmartMessages directed at specific FS numbers.
The thing is: If you want REC and PLAY to work *on press* rather than *on release*, those two footswitches cannot be sequential; since currently, sequential mode will allways switch on release. So you need the STOP footswitch to be sequential, and carry the sequencer status / LED colours. PLAY then has a SmartMessage in the PRESS stack sending STOP to the sequential step with green LED and PLAY command. I want REC to go rec=>dub=>play=>dub=>play etc., as on most loopers. For this to work on a Stop switch, I need sequential steps to be
1. nothing (just label "Stop", LED black)
2. jump back to Step 1
3. Record (red)
4. Stop, and jump back to Step 1.
5. Overdub (LED orange)
6. Stop, and jump back to Step 1.
7. Play (LED green)
8. Stop, and jump back to Step 1.
9. jump back to Step 5.
So whenever I hit STOP, looper will stop. PLAY will send the STOP footswitch to step 7. REC is the complicated one: It will first "Queue next sequential step" (i.e. go up 1 step without triggering its message), then "increase sequential step" (i.e. go up 1 more step, this time triggering the message), on the STOP footswitch.
Took me a while and some amount of testing to figure this out, but now it works pefectly 🙂