Kinotone Ribbons with PirateMidi 'scribble'

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OK, here is a doozy.. I recently cottoned onto these ‘micro MIDI’ controllers by the Australian music-tech mob called ‘Pirate Midi’ - specifically their ‘Sctibble’ devices that are mini MIDI controllers that you configure via USB and have built in BluTooth so you can send presets to the device via Bluetooth! It works really well with the Chase Bliss App, so you can send presets directly off your ios or Android device to nearly all the Chase Bliss Pedals. It would be great if there were presets for the Ribbons or that let you instantly access pre-set ‘touch modes’! Anyway let the discourse/learning begin! I can see there are Midi codes/message in the manual i will start to experiment with that. I understand the ‘ribbons’ it preset to Midi ‘A’.

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SO the ‘scribble’ has been set to MIDI type-A all the program settings as assigned to Channel1. Basically what I am trying to do it trigger the 8 ‘ribbons’ presets via the Scribble ‘click’. So the Scribble shows the Presets change on each click up and down, but the presets aren’t changing on the Ribbons. ALSO, The ‘scribble’ has Kinotone ‘ribbons’ in their config device library, which the messaging codes as per the ‘ribbons’ MIDI manual.

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Which version of Ribbons do you have?

Is it the version with the CV/EXP and MIDI jack labels on the face or are those labels on the sides above the jacks?

What are the internal jumpers on Ribbons set to?

Do you have any other MIDI tools to verify that Ribbons is receiving MIDI data?

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Hi Jaak,

Thanks for the response, problem solved!.. FYI:

  • My Ribbon is FM2.0, MIDI on side above guitar ports
  • Internal Jumpers set to Midi ‘A’
  • Everything was fine. I had to reset the ‘Scribble’, which lets me easily cycle through Presets 1-8!! Now to see how it can make the Looper easier to use!
  • A request - would it be posible keep say an ‘effected/’ loop going on the ‘disintegration’ loop preset and by-pass the incoming signal? So effectively having each as an independent channel that can have effects laid onto them, or do you have to do that via the 4-track looper?
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Set the pedal to buffered bypass with trails. Then you can make a loop and effect it, bypass the pedal, and still hear your loop playing back while your input signal stays dry.

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