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To send your current preset to connected device, hold the Alt button and press the other LED soft switch, that’s it.
Preset is sent! Make sure you have an application open and waiting to record MIDI SysEx. On Mac, our favorite application for
recording presets is
SysEx Librarian
.
To receive a preset on your connected device, simply send it using your favorite librarian (again, ours is SysEx Librarian) to
your pedal. A Meris pedal is always listening for presets. If you like the new preset that you’ve sent over, press and hold the
Alt button to save. If you decide you do not like the preset you just sent to the pedal, then do not save. In the case that you
chose not to save the new preset, the original preset in that location will load as usual during the next program change message
or power cycle.
Using the MIDI I/O to connect both MIDI Input and MIDI Output to your Meris pedal opens up the option of both send-
ing and receiving presets between your Meris pedal and an external device like a PC or tablet. MIDI presets are sent via SysEx
messages.
For best results with multiple pedals, choose different MIDI channels (
See Section 1b
). Make sure you have your pedal set to MIDI
OUT (
See Section 1c
).
Sysex is short for System Exclusive messages, and are created by manufacturers to allow convenience and deeper control
by stringing together bytes in a much longer message than Program Changes (PC) and Continuous Controller (CC) messages.
These are mostly commonly used to work with editors and librarians (and we do just that for sending and receiving our presets).
Along with sending and receiving presets, you can use your MIDI I/O to change global settings. Brace yourselves! Here is the
Sysex breakdown for changing your global settings on the fly:
SECTION 3
- SENDING AND RECEIVING PRESETS
SECTION 4
- ADVANCED CONTROL - SYSEX
Section 3a.
Sending your Current Preset:
Section 3b.
Receiving a Preset:
Example Message:
F0 00 20 10 00 01 00 2A 00 7F F7
F0 Header
00 20 10
Meris ID (different manufacturers have different IDs)
00
Prod ID (user definable, matches midi channel)
01
Group ID
(01 = pedal series)
00
Model # (00 = Ottobit Jr, 01 = Mercury7, 02 = Polymoon)
2A
Command
(2A = global edit via syex)
00
Global Num
(listed below, 0 is TRS input)
7F
Value
(00 = OFF,
7F = ON)
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