MeloAudio MIDI Commander Guitar Floor Multi-Effects Portable USB MIDI Foot Controller Foot Switches

The pedal is well built and feels nice, very solid. All metal housing. Tiny screen is surprisingly easy to read. Easy to set custom parameters.Sadly I've returned mine.It can't map PC or CC commands in the very specific way that I needed which was to control a loop pedal.PC only works sequentially like PC 0-7, one after the other, going from PC 1 to PC 50 means required bank changes.CC commands can't have a specific data field value. For example: button 1 CC3 value 115, button 2 CC3 value 118, button 3 CC3 value 5.It seems like it'd be a fairly easy addition to add a custom order, non sequential PC mapping mode and a specific data value for midiCC messages.If an update fixes it, will buy again immediately.P.S. Support was great, they emailed back right away, had an engineer contact me and even sent a me a video to see if a different solution would work for me.

So heres my story.Im a guitar player that comes from the world of analog tube amps and the like. After touring and giging for a while i decided to go into the world of digital amps because of reliability and ease of use. So i purchased a Bias mini head and a line 6 m5 effects processor. Simple rig. Nothing crazy.Then i was introduced into the world of Midi controllers. Im a minimalist and i like to have one wire going from my amp to the pedal board, which wasnt really an option at first until i stumbled upon the Meloaudio Midi Commander. Still new to the world of Midi, i couldnt find much info on it online but i pulled the trigger anyway.This midi board is ABSOLUTELY the easiest thing to use. I absolutely love that (cause of my midi noob self). The size is perfect, functionality is simple, its robust, it just works as it should.It comes preloaded with different presets for different amp interfaces and as soon as i switched it to Bias, it worked with my amp flawlessly.I currently use it to control both my Bias amp and the Line 6 M5 at the same time. And still only one cable from my amp to the pedal. BECAUSE BATTERIES!!!! Its absolutely genius. And the expression pedal input works perfect to the Line 6 M5, it took a little fiddling but it works perfect.I have ZERO complaint about this pedal and its abilities. After touring for a few weeks with it, jumping on it, spilling beer on it (whoops), it has not let me down. Always ready to rock!

After reading/watching multiple reviews and youtube videos, I decided to give this MIDI footswitch board a shot. The MIDI Commander arrived promptly and worked well for the first couple hours of use. However, i quickly ran into issues when the board started randomly freezing after only a minute or two of use.As it sits, i get approximately 45 seconds before the MIDI Commander freezes and refuses to respond. I haven’t done anything to it other than hooking it up to my PC (I run the footswitch through Bias Fx). Very upset that the board essentially broke after only 2 hours of usage.Currently, i am unable to use it and am waiting for a response from MeloAudio. Maybe i received a defective unit. Very surprised by the lack of quality control.At the moment, i cannot recommend that anyone purchase this product. If i receive a quality working product, i will edit this review to reflect the pros and cons.However, at this point in time, stay away from this product

I wanted to share my thoughts on how the Midi Commander works with the HX Stomp. This is overall a solid midi controller with solid metal construction and compact size (about the size of 3 or 4 stompboxes side by side). There are some thoughtful touches such as an LCD screen and onboard battery charging. 8 of the footswitches are customizable, but the two on the far right are coded to move preset banks up and down (the switch can be setup to move 4, 5, 8, or 10 presets at a time with a max ability to move through 32 presets) and cannot be customized to do anything else. The default setup has the bottom 4 footswitches to select presets and the top 4 footswitches for stompboxes. Dedicating a switch to toggle through modes is not possible using a midi subparameter (you can only set CC or PC#). You can however set FS4 and 5 to be controlled by MIDI and then set on HX Stomp to have FS 4 or 5 to be a Tap/Tuner, Bank Up/Down, Preset Up/Down, Snap Shot Up/Down, FS Mode L/R. If you decide to dedicate FS4 or 5 to do these commands, remember you will lose that function as a footswitch, though each stompbox can be assigned using a discrete MIDI number using HX Edit so as long as that number is not in use. Also remember whatever you set on FS 4 or 5 on Midi Commander will also replicate the same command on the FS4/5 EP1/2 jack. So all this is because Midi Commander cannot assign subparameters (it's either 0/127 or 0/64). Another drawback is the footswitches makes an annoyingly loud clicking sound. All in all though I think with some work around this controller does exactly what you want it to using the HX Stomp. It would be nice for the future to tone down the clicking sound and to possibly open up the bank footswitches to make them customizable.

I have been trying to find the right combination of gear to work with iOS Positive Grid software for quite some time now. I saw a review for this switch and was hooked. I decided I was going to go all in and get the compatible interface and expression pedal too. So, I purchased:MidiCommanderMeloAudio TS Mini USB interfaceMeloAudio expression pedalStraight out of the boxes... I plugged it all in and it all just worked. It works flawlessly with JamUp Pro and BiasFX. The sound is great and there is zero latency switching between presets.In short, this gear is fantastic. Do yourself a favor if you want a portable easy to set up and manage rig. So easy to use and incredibly well made with solid metal materials. This gear is a steal for the price!