How I Use the Morningstar MC3!
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Morningstar Engineering has become well known for their midi controller. With different sizes, the MC series of controllers meet and satisfy whatever need you have. Enter the MC3, the smallest of the bunch, but by no means the least powerful. This tightly packed controller saves you space, and yet doesn't compromise functionality. It's amazing how much Morningstar was able to fit into this little beast!
Guitar: Veritas Portlander
Amp: Walrus Audio ACS1
T I M E M A P :
00:00 Intro
00:45 MC3 Walkthrough
02:43 Pedalboard View
03:03 Live Mode
03:15 Aux Switch
03:27 Tap Tempo
03:36 Walrus Audio D1 Delay
04:47 Walrus Audio R1 Reverb
06:15 AB Page Toggle
06:29 Midi Clock BPM
06:58 SET LIST Example 1
07:08 Song 1 // Here For You
07:35 Song 2 // Won't Stop Now
08:13 SET LIST Example 2
08:29 Song 1 // Glorious Day
08:50 Song 2 // Surrounded (Fight My Battles)
09:16 Using Different Presets in Song
09:32 Song 3 // Forever
09:48 Intro Preset
10:09 Verse Preset
10:42 Chorus Preset
11:16 Instrumental Preset // Lamb Overdrive Lead Boost
11:45 Bridge Preset
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Dude this video was ridiculously good and helpful - thanks!
Awesome!! Thanks for watching man 🙏🏽
Phenomenal tones, man. Thanks for the breakdown on the MC3. I found your vid through their IG page, and now you have a new subscriber.
Thanks so much man!! Means a lot 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Awesome demo, and great playing and tones. I'm sold on the MC3.
Thanks so much! And yea it’s a little beast!
Very informative video! Great tone and fantastic use of the MC3. I just got an MC8 and this video showed me so many possibilities!! Time to start working on it :)
Thanks so much for watching! And yea with the MC8 you have even more options!
Thanks for this vid. Super interested in the Morningstar stuff. Cool to see that you can bank through with the switcher!
For sure! Yea they have some quality and well functioning gear! I was glad to use the switcher too. Super easy!
This is great man. Great use cases, your tone is rock solid.
Dude!! Thanks so much. Means a lot from you. Love your videos! 🙏🏽🔥
Thank you so much. Video has helped me a lot. Been caught in a choice making process but it’s clear now that this might be the perfect
Choice for me. Planning to run it on a timeline, bigsky, iridium and sunset strymon. As you might have noticed, I’m almost all strymon so trying to get something that’s user friendly.
For sure! That’s awesome man. Yes the ability to used midi 5 pin and trs straight out of the box is great!
That Midi clock BPM scroll setting is ingenious! Well done. I use mine to power an H9 and I have one "home / landing page" for during a song and a bunch of presets scrolling/selection banks.
Right?! It’s super helpful! Thanks man means a lot. That’s epic! It’s such a great tool
How have I never come across this video? Now I NEED an MC3!
😂 yessssss!!! It’s a powerful little thing
Great set up and sound! 👍🏼
Thanks bro! Loving what how MC3 helps me efficiently do what I gotta do 👌🏽
@@nobesmusic You’re welcome, brother! I appreciate the time you put in to give us the content.
@@robertoruiz1924 for sure! Love doing this stuff
Holy crap, those D1 presets are amazing!
Thanks bro!! Love the D1
@@nobesmusic do you have those patches sharable? sound awesome!
@@joshuamorrison1810 yes I do! I have a video of them here on UA-cam but if you hit me up on IG, I will send you them personally 👌🏽
convinced me!
Haha epic!
Awesome tone. Fantastic. I may need your help dude. Lol. I want my MC6 to do exactly this with maybe 3-4 parts per song
Thanks man! And I gotchu you for sure. Hit me up on IG @nobesmusic. We can chat tomorrow 👌🏽
Sweet
Thanks man! Love what this little thing can do 🔥👌🏽
Nice playing, nice board. get XTS or lasd to mold it together for you!
That’d be super cool!
Your tone sounds awesome! Thanks for posting this it’s a big help for me. I play worship guitar too and am trying to get into midi so I can stop tap dancing. How do you use the C4 synth in worship and what do you think of it?
Thanks man! Means a lot 🙏🏽. Using midi is super helpful! I love the C4 Synth! It’s really cool because you can dial in normal guitar effects too. Like I use an octave effect, auto wah, and tremelo all on the C4. You can probably get a chorus out of it too haha. I made a demo of it where I show the normal guitar sounds that I use from it
This was an excellent demonstration of the MC3’s capabilities. I’ve been contemplating between a Morningstar or the RJM PBC, but the price difference is tremendous. Besides, I will only be using a fraction of the RJM’s capabilities. My only reservation about this MC3 is it won’t work with my non-midi pedals (mainly my overdrive pedals). Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks so much! And yes the MC3 is epic! Great size, price point, and capability. Regarding your overdrives, you can potential sell them to get midi friendly overdrives, which could be less overdrives than you currently have since you won’t need to stack them but use different presets for gain stages, or you can buy Morningstar’s ML5 switcher which is a looper that is run by midi, so you’d essentially be controlling your overdrive pedals via midi by turning them on and off, or saving specific overdrives on for specific presets on the MC3!
Hi! Thanks for sharing your workflow :)
Was wondering if the tiny white double foot switch under the Jet pedal, is connected to the MC3?
For sure! Thanks for watching. The double foot switch is actually just connected to the MC3. I use it to change banks left and right!
Unreal tones! Been looking at the acs1 for a while now. Is the sound in this video recorded directly out of the acs or did you use any software-plugins after?
Thanks so much! It’s killer man. I love it to so much, I got two! And yea direct into my interface and then I think I just used some mastering plug ins but nothing too crazy! If you check my live in ear mix videos you will hear how it sounds straight up!
Thank you for the very informative video. I was wondering if I could use this MIDI footswitch to switch between the 4 channels on my H&K GM40 Deluxe Amp. If yes, where can I find more info on how to do this Thx.
Thanks! And yea you can totally do that. You can control it via midi, which is exactly what the MC3 can do! You can either have have each channel programmed for each switch, toggle between them in order, or even have two channels on a single switch (press, double press, long press) and two on the other and use the third switch as your favorite channel you can jump to anytime. Just gotta read the manual to see what midi message it needs
Hello thanks for the demo. Hope I can ask you a question. So on your setlist 2 from the glorious song to My battles. Did you have to program in the "off state" of the Lamb in the my battles switch?
Hey! For sure! Thanks for watching. And yes! There is a midi message that turns off the lamb that I programmed once you hit that switch. With one tap, you can send different messages to different pedals!
Wonderful! Seems a bit intimidating lol Having to bank up, down, switch banks etc... Is it easy to use + memorize for live playing? This is all new to me and having so many pedals, its time to stop tap dancing lol Thanks!
It definitely is a bit intimidating when you first start, but after those first few steps you’ll get the hang of it! It’s just getting used to routing everything correctly. It’ll definitely keep you from the tap dancing haha
Great video, but does it works even with the old classic analog pedal like ts9?or i need only midi friendly pedal?
No this only works with midi capable pedals. But check out some of Morningstars other gear! They have a looper that is controlled via mid and even a new adapter to help tap into the expression/tap trs jacks of analog pedals!
Have you been able to get the D1 to ping pong from Left to Right? It seems like the trails do it as I bypass the pedal but cant get it to ping pong at all when engaged
Hey! Yes! The D1 actually has different bypass options. In their manual they show how to do it, but I think you need it to be on the Blue DSP Bypass. Also the only setting that does the stereo ping pong thing is the Dual Delay setting, but with the mod tone and age knob you can make that sound digital, tape, or analog which is great!
So the white switcher is a normal dumb switcher that changes banks on the MC3? What does the AE utility pedal do? That just to make plugging in your out cables easier?
Hey! Yes the white switcher is just and aux switch banking up and down on the MC3. The Ae pedal is just a passive stereo sum to mono. So it’s not associated with the MC3
Hello friend, I'm between this pedal and the MC6 (Since I saw in a video that the MC6 shows the tap tempo that you press) In this MC3 I do not see that the screen shows the tap pressed live, only the tap of the previously saved banks. Can you clarify my doubt? I thank you, I am also a worship guitarist.
Hey! So whenever it shows a Tap Switch, it is because it is programmed onto that switch, even on the MC6, you’d have to program the specific switch to be a tap function on each bank. On the other banks I didn’t need tap tempo because it was songs with set BPMs and click. I only program the tap if I know I’m playing a set where there isn’t a click or I know they might change the BPM. So if you want, you can always copy and paste the Tap Function onto each bank on the same switch, both on the MC3 and the MC6 👌🏽
Could I use this Morning Star MC 3 with a Behringer VTONEGMX30 which has TRS channel changing and a built in midi effects processor ? I tried using the Behringer FCB1010 but it was ridiculously hard to figure out ?And how much in Canadian dollars ?
Hey! I’m not too familiar with that model, but if it receives midi it should totally work! The MC3 has 4 ports for TRS Midi communication. Unfortunately I do not know how much they are in Canadian dollars.
I have two Amplifiers (EVHiii with MIDI) and I need a switcher to help me switch amplifier channels at the same time. Will this work and how?
Hey man! I’m not familiar with that model, but if it has midi, it should definitely work! If it’s 5 pin you would send it from the MC3 into one amp and hopefully that amp would have a Thru to send to the other. You’d just have to make sure both amps were set to different midi channels and look at their manuals to see what message you need to send to change amp channels 👌🏽
Why does the mc6 doesnt have all those midi in and outs that the mc3 have? Is this an updated version than the mc6? Thanks.
Hey! Well the MC3 doesn’t have have any Midi in inputs but it does have an expression/Aux in. They we’re able to fit 4 trs midi outs though because they used 3.5mm instead of 1/4 inch
I have a boss gt-1000 core. Wondering if I could use a regular trs cable to connect the mc3? Or is there a specific midi 3.5mm cable to buy?
Hey! You would need something like a 1/4 TRS with a 3.5mm to go into the MC3 or you’d need a 3.5mm TRS with 1/4” adapter go into the gt1000. I know Caulfield Cables actually make 3.5 into 1/4” though. And Morningstar has some great options online to with adapters
Just FYI: In case you didn't know, even 5 Pin Midi Cables only have 3 wires connected so any 3.5mm Cable will work as long as the wiring meets the Gears midi preference, TypeA//B - Same applies to 1/4" (As some pedals use 1/4" for Midi - You can make your own 3.5>1/4 Cable)
I got the MC3 and am finally starting to get it integrated into my setup, which is mainly my HX Stomp. I am still trying to figure out how to press A and B to page with my foot, that's a big space between. How do you deal with that?
Thats awesome! It helps so much. And yea it is hard to do that, so if I have to toggle a page, I’ll just program a double tap to do that
@@nobesmusic Thanks for the reply. I have the C button set to advance snapshots so I will try a double tap on that button for paging.
How are you connecting the lamb to the MC3? i know it goes from 1/8TRS to 1/4TRS, but are you using a specific adapter?
I am just using the 1.8mn trs aux chord and using a 1.8mm to 1/4” adapter! Basically a headphone adapter. But I think you can also buy 1.8mm to 1/4” on Amazon or something
hi. I have a question: can this morningstar pedal be used to start/stop the sequencer on Akai MPC one via MIDI?
Hey! Yea totally, it can control whatever parameter you want. I know that the Akai has midi so you’d just have to figure the midi messages that is required to start and stop the sequencer. Thank you just program the MC3 to do that and send those messages assigned to each switch. (ie: Switch A to start and Switch B to stop)
@@nobesmusic excellent man. I'm going to get the MC3. thank you
@@brendodorset3720 awesome man! You’ll love it! 👌🏽
Can the mc3 affect multiple pedals with one click? I see you can send clock to pedals but does it show the tempo? I’m guessing I’d have to look at my delay pedal where the command is sent to see the blinking led for tempo.
Yes! You can send that midi information to as many pedals as you want. You can either send tap tempo, where in the live mode you can see the bpm, and then also midi clock, where you can’t see because it’s already been programmed so you would have already known it. It’s great!
FYI Jet MCX is the smallest midi controller but it has no screen.
@@lcglazer yep! I have one of those too. They are killer!
What midi cables are you using to connect the d1 and r1. I'm having a hard time finding something that works and is short enough.
I’m using the Rock Board midi cables!
@@nobesmusic Thanks man. I just got an MC3 myself. Is there any benifit to running each pedal of a different port? Or should they be daisy chained to the same one? Is there a difference in outcome?
@@holmanconde so for pedals that are 5 pin midi, they have to be daisy chain via midi. The only isolated ones are by TRS, so you can have 4 of those with the MC3. Even though the 5pin midi is daisy chained, they still function individually. They need to have their own channels. Each pedal should have instructions on how to assign the channel to a different number 👌🏽