Californication Midi

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Aug 3, 2024, 11:59:45 AM8/3/24

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Thanks, those who chimed in with an answer. I am still rocking a Floor Pod Plus and am sending patch changes to it from Ableton 10, which has my backing tracks on it. It's a massively important feature for me. What's funny is that the Floor Pod Plus does not sound bad through my EV pa system. I could get away with continuing to use it, but the Pod Go looks really, really tempting to me, assuming I can send it patch changes.

I see this thread getting quite a bit of views so it must be on the minds of many potential buyers. Any official word from Line 6 about if this feature will be incorporated from the start or added as an update?

I have recently purchased a Line 6 POD Go and I am happy with everything about it other than it will not accept MIDI from anything other than a PC. It appears to require the driver loaded in the PC to be able to accept MIDI. I am using a Kenton USB Midi Host mkII to host messages from a Morningstar MC6. The Line 6 POD Go is not "generic class compliant" and without the drivers in the PC will not respond to external MIDI. Hopefully this can be easily rectified by Line 6 soon.

The Pod Go is almost perfect. It should have midi. Or at last an update so it becomes class compliant and a usb- host would solve the problem.
I want to receive midi-clock for syncing the Pod Go with a drumcomputer/sequencer and send PC to an Eventide H9 in the fx-loop.

From what the manual says regarding MIDI, the PG can receive for example, midi messages from an iPad running OnSong or similar so that when changing from one song to another, you can program the PG to change presets.

Has anyone had any luck using one of these to connect a controller like the Rocktron MIDI Mate to do preset/snapshot changes? I'm thinking about doing this so I can keep the POD GO on stompbox mode and rely on an external switcher for presets.

Do you know if POD GO is USB class compliant? I want to control it with a Morningstar MC6 through a Kenton USB MIDI Host, apparently it should work provided it's USB class compliant for Midi Over USB.

I just USB plugged my POD GO into my Son's three years old Windows 10 Gaming Computer, and it did not automatically set up a driver... Doesn't that mean it's actually not USB Class Compliant? Not trying to give you a hard time, but I also could not find any mention of Class Compliant in the POD GO manual. I need to know for sure, because I'm on the verge of buying a Kenton USB midi host so I can control my POD GO and a couple of other MIDI devices with my MC6 MIDI foot controller. According to Kenton, as long as the device is Class Compliant, the host will work. So anyway, if I spend $200 on a Midi Host and it doesn't work, basically, for me, it's $200 paperweight... I guess what I need to know, is, how do you know it's Compliant?

I see receiving Midi is straight forward based on the manual, but I'm curious if the Go can SEND a midi command(s). I use a Fishman Triple Play Wireless and hate their app and want to just use SampleTank with it on the iPad clamped to a mic stand. I can buy the Fishman pedal to do it separately, but would be great if on sound change or snapshot change to send a command to the IOS device to set the sound in SampleTank or any other midi sound engine on the IOS device. Just brainstorming now...

I use my iPad (I think it's a 6) connected with the Camera Connection Kit. One cable that is USB Male A (plugged into Camera Connection Kit) to Male B (POD Go). The iPad is running the ForScore app and I program custom buttons to send CC messages. Ch.1/ CC32/ 1 (for user preset bank)/x (have to calculate manually, but it starts at 0).

I do not personally have experience with Android devices, but it looks like MIDI works similarly to iOS. Through reading, I found that Android started supporting MIDI in 2015. So I assume any Android devices after this time should have the functionality, either through USB or Bluetooth (MIDI BLE).

In addition to the cable connection, you would need an app that can send MIDI commands to test it. If you are using it on a song-by-song basis to change presets like me, maybe you already have an app that you use that can also send MIDI commands.

Hi, is it (technical) possible that Line6 in future software updates midi send over usb supports? For me (and other users) this wish would be awesome because I (we) don't have to invest in a separate midi controller. Please make this wish come true...
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Controlling the Pod Go presets from a touchscreen is really handy during live shows. I have to jump around the presets a lot and it can take too much time between songs if I have to scroll with the Pod's foot switches.

So I wrote a python program on my PC to create an array of buttons, one for each preset. When I press a button, it sends the appropriate MIDI command via a direct USB cable to the Pod and it switches immediately to that preset. I put the PC on a stand next to me and it works pretty well.

Attached is the python code and a screenshot of the GUI. I'm not an expert programmer and it was a few months ago, so I don't remember everything I did. But if you're a programmer you should be able to figure it out. Hope this is helpful to someone.

But now I want to be able to do the same thing from an android tablet. The PC is just too big to hang off a mic stand. Right now my options seem to be 1) get my python program running on android or 2) use a commercial app. Anyone have any advice that could save me some time here?

This is similar to what I would use on the iPad to send preset changes. Once you learn the MIDI syntax required to set up one "button" (that triggers one preset), it should be pretty copy and paste from there.

Hi everyone, I was looking for an answer for control my Pod GO trough midi and finally I could make it using the Pod GO, an iPhone/iPad, M-Vave Chocolate, a Lighting to USB adapter purchased from AliExpress, the Apple charger, the midimittr app and the app Chocolate CubeSuite.
In CubeSuite I put the B mode and in midimittr I set the FootCtrl as source and the Pod GO as destination and it works.

In terms of chords and melody, Californication is more basic than the typical song, having below average scores in Chord Complexity, Melodic Complexity, Chord-Melody Tension, Chord Progression Novelty and Chord-Bass Melody.

Californication is written in the key of A Minor. According to the Theorytab database, it is the most popular key among Minor keys and the 7th most popular among all keys. Minor keys, along with major keys, are a common choice for popular music. The three most important chords, built off the 1st, 4th and 5th scale degrees are all minor chords (A minor, D minor, and E minor).See the A Minor Cheat Sheet for popular chords, chord progressions, downloadable midi files and more!