Paint Audio MIDI Captain foot controller

[Hellem]

He is called Mr. Wilson, and he is not responsive...

 

[782369]

Hi 782369, any new word on your button travails?

I just bought a MIDI Captain MINI6 and after reading your post I'm pre-emptively looking at some possible replacement switches. The originals are unusual (in that I haven't found any that work the same way). It looks like more standard switches can be used, but some of the niceness of the LEDs may be lost since they rely on the way the light pipes align. My first gig with the unit is coming up. I think I'll be pressing the buttons gently if I can.

Did you ever contact PA and get it resolved?

Thet did send me a new one so not that angry any more

Haven’t tried replacing the switches since I got a second unit but will do after gig season (summer) is over.

 

[3Dog]

Received a Midi Captain today and was surprised to discover the black one is a standard edition and does not have wireless midi. Version 3 was installed. I checked Amazon and one with it was the same price. I returned and upgraded with the midi mate. My old 5 pin BTle dongle worked. My old Roland expression pedal worked. Figured out Geek mode. My rechargeable AA batteries worked. My rechargeable 9 v battery with adapter plugged in and worked. USB b provided power and transmited midi. It’s a keeper on day one. This has everything I needed my BlueBoard and KMI 12 step to do. Don’t think I will use USB mode after reading all the bricking comments. Hard to tell what firmware posters are on. Don’t think I will ever need to use usb programming unless I upgrade firmware.

 

[sashimi]

I am thinking about getting one of these for my hx stomp. How hard is it to program? When you make a new preset do you have to start from scratch programming the midi? Or is it more like a template you do once? I am totally lost when it comes to midi. Thanks.

 

[Hellem]

It is easy to program. You need to create text files with mapping. Mind to duplicate it with excell with your comments not to forget)) battery issue is concerned with poor battery management here. The unit operates, but charges slowly, only when it is powered on, the battery is small... It would be better to use lifepo4 battery with bigger size.
The price is high, it is near the level when you can create you own controller for that money.
Also the firmware is poor.. there are lots of disadvantages. I have described them here.
I also wrote several times to Mr. Wilson but he is not responsive..
Firmware update process is easy, I did it 2 times with camed out new firmware. Some issues were solved in new, but some not. I am still waiting for a new firmware))

 

[782369]

I am thinking about getting one of these for my hx stomp. How hard is it to program? When you make a new preset do you have to start from scratch programming the midi? Or is it more like a template you do once? I am totally lost when it comes to midi. Thanks.

Extremely easy (i use it with stomp) to program. If you’re not gigging/stomping on the buttons heavily then it really is a no brainer

 

[3Dog]

Just plugged my new Midi Mate into my iPhone 15 pro max so in theory I could edit things. Not going to as I want to back it up but I could see the id and other info.

 

[3Dog]

Just received a silver Midi Captain and I can view its drive on my iPhone 15 like I could with the midi mate. You have to hold down button 1 while it boots.

My 9v recharable battery doesn’t power it on but my rechargeable AA batteries do along with usb. Also I had a 9 v power adapter that worked.

I can confirm that you can install Firmware using the iPhone 15 pro max. WARNING. DO NOT TRY TO EDIT. When you touch a file it sends it to an app that can read it. I think it does something to the file as I had to restore the firmware twice now. It takes forever.

Still can’t figure out how to charge the internal. I turned charging on.

 

[TwistedTape]

This is one of my top contenders, its that or an MC6 Pro. I am going to be doing quite a bit with it and a screen and other upgrades are a must. I think a screen is pretty important.

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[3Dog]

Notes - Chords

Couldn’t find any documentation about notes. If you send a note it is a note on message with a value. You need to be in geek mode. Figured out that to get it to act like a note off you have to go down and program the same note in up direction with a value of 0.

Discovered later that there are pages preprogrammed with chords like this.

You can program guitar voicings as you have up to 6 notes. Also if you use different values you can get it to sound closer to a strum.

I am now able to use XMURE with foot control. Strummerfx and all my poly apps worked.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I finally have time to sit and mess with my Cap'n. I had to dust it off and refamiliarize myself with how I've set it up, but decided to update it to FW4.0 and start over. Since there are no actual instructions in text anywhere, I thought I'd copy the only instructions that Ive found (a picture on their site) and post them here for (hopefully) easy reference.

Updating MIDI Captain to FW 4.0:

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Hmm.. It seems like my Cap'n doesn't like my USB hub and botched the transfer. Makes for an interesting light show on the Cap'n's display screen. Retrying connected directly to my PC. It's a new PC so I fully expect different roadblocks compared to the ones in my way when I had my Mac. At least this machine reads the hardware!

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Got it sorted, but after first tinker I think I like Geek Mode better

I loathe the text editor way of programming this thing

 

[mbenigni]

I loathe the text editor way of programming this thing

I actually grew to love it after a very short while.

...The approach to editing is really (IMO refreshingly) old school. You plug the device into a PC with a USB cable and its contents pop up like a thumbdrive. Every preset has a global.txt file and a subfolder with text files for each of its switches. Edit the files, restart the pedal and you're done. For a second I thought it was a little nuts having to edit a different file for each switch, until I wanted to put together a preset with 4 switches from one preset and 6 switches from another... and I realized all I had to do was copy 4 files from one folder to the other. This is REALLY straightforward. If you've ever tried to manage MP3s or photos on an iPhone and gotten twitchy because Apple made it so complicated, you'll love this by contrast...

All of the devices that come with slick, dedicated apps... those apps are generally very limited in comparison, involve a lot of page flipping, screw up simple conventions like momentary vs. toggle, and so on. A bunch of text files is very, "Get out of my way and let me fix it myself." Of course, I only use the MIDI Captain in Basic Mode or whatever it's called. It might be more of a handful in Geek Mode.

 

[joshofbass]

Can you program this pedal to increment PC and CC changes?

My use case is:

Source audio Neuro hub, c4 synth, ultrawave.

Boss ir200

Zoom ms60b


The boss and zoom pedals have screens so sending a simple pc up or down is sufficient but the source audio pedals do not. My current setup sends PC messages and keeps track of where I'm at on the screen (cuvave chocolate).

Can the midi captain line give me that kind of visual feedback on the little screen? Can it keep track of where it is at with a PC or cc message?

 

[Hellem]

I can't remember, weather is can send PC up/down messages.... May it can. You can take a look at you tube channel - all the features for programming are there. Just search "Wilson midi captain".

And it definitely can't receive any midi. So you can't see what is going on outside...
I was asking Wilson several times to implement the feature of receiving midi (sysex or any) to control LEDs, but Wilson is not responsive....