Ground Contol setup help with Eleven Rack Please!

HipHopWong · **Joined:** Wed May 16, 2012 3:47 pm **Posts:** 1

Eleven Rack Ground Control help needed.

I watched both Sean Halley's YouTube videos.

I was able to switch the default settings to 4 Presets / Bank with instant access.

What I want is 4 (eleven R patches) presets on the bottom 4 buttons and the above 8 to turn on / off individual effects.

From what I understand the very first bank would be 01 INIT. Then the next bank would be 11 INIT followed by 21 INIT etc...

What I want to do is to have the same 4 presets / patches on the bottom 4 buttons. Clean / Crunch / Rip / Shred, with 8 individual effects on the buttons above. I want to be able to toggle to the next bank and have my same 4 presets / patches on the bottom but different sets of effects on the top 8 buttons.

What I still cannot figure out how to do, is to assign an eleven rack preset to each of the 4 lower buttons. As an example, can someone please tell me how to assign 11R preset A1 to button 1, J3 to button 2, C6 to button 3, S4 to button 4 etc?

This is what I cannot figure out how to do can someone please help?

Is each 11R preset assigned a midi number or is it easier than that?

I thought the way to do it was to select the preset / patch on 11R and then select one of the numbers 1-4 and then hit edit and save and then it would be saved to that number but that doesn't work.

nyteowl · **Joined:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:53 am **Posts:** 532

Your 11Rack presets are numbered consecutively, so when you choose Bank 1, Preset 3 your 11Rack will be on Preset 03. When you change to Bank 2, Preset 1 your 11Rack will be on Preset 05; when you change to Bank 3, Preset 2 your 11Rack will be on Preset 10, etc.

I believe I understand what you want to accomplish, that being maintaining the same four basic guitar tones (Clean, Crunch, Rip, Shred), but when you change banks you want different effects parameters. For example, let's say for Preset 01 you want it to be a Clean tone with a very light chorus (Button 6) and subtle delay (Button 7), but while Preset 05 would still be a Clean tone, you want this one to have a heavy flanger (Button 6) and longer delay (Button 7).

If that's what you're after, in order to accomplish that, you should start by applying the bulk MIDI dump as described in the second thread from the top, titled...

Ground Control Pro + Eleven Rack Expansion Pack

Last time I checked it was directly above this thread. Following the instructions outlined there will get your GCPro and 11Rack communicating properly and your GCPro will be configured like this:

Instant Access buttons:
Button 1 = Wah On/Off
Button 2 = FX1 On/Off
Button 3 = FX2 On/Off
Button 4 = Tap Tempo
Button 5 = Distotion On/Off
Button 6 = Modulation On/Off
Button 7 = Delay On/Off
Button 8 = Reverb On/Off

Expression Pedals:
Expression Pedal 1 = Volume Pedal in Eleven Rack Rigs.
Expression Pedal 2 = Wah position..

The next thing you should do is create your four basic 11Rack presets to use as templates. Once you've dialed in 01 Clean, 02 Crunch, 03 Rip and 04 Shred to your liking, them copy them to presets 5, 6, 7 & 8, then 9, 10, 11 & 12, then 13, 14, 15 & 16, etc.

Now you can pretty much forget about the GCPro for a while and start adding effects to your 11Rack presets. Once you've got the effects dialed in the way you want them, save that Preset on the 11Rack and move on to the next Preset. Keep doing that until you've created as many presets with various effects combinations that you need/want.

Now back to the GCPro. In Edit mode, starting with Bank 1/Preset 01, make sure the IA buttons are on for all the effects you want active when you first call up that particular Preset, and then save that preset on the GCPro. Repeat this process for each Preset.

This should get you there...

Ground Contol setup help with Eleven Rack Please!

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