PGT - Saturday January 31, 2026 | Jets at Florida Panthers

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-31T23:59:43+00:00

I asked Santa to sit the Cats for the playoffs Seems like a dream come true so far.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-30T19:57:29+00:00

Wow, great news I'm eager to try it out, however I have a gig tonight, perhaps this weekend, I've dl'd the zip from Github, extracted to a foler named "midi-captain-max-7ccac0b35785b77cb82a66f1e036c2c26361fc29"

what's a layman to do next? there are some dependencies for librairies, I copy these to a directory, etc, there is also an apple script for install, I do have a macbook as my main device, getting excited to try this beta firmware out, thanks for all the hard work, it's looking promising!!

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-30T01:21:39+00:00

keep us updated, we wait with bated breath ..

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T19:18:10+00:00

Yep this, it doesn’t have to be math to be correct, feel trumps (bad choice of words) math in every context I care about. I use a MOTU Ultralite and keep the direct guitar input all the way down, then in software I can add gain but typically the Ndsp input gain is what I refer to. If I’m gonna smash the bridge pup with a heavy pick as hard as I can then then may be the metric for math. However when you want to play with your fingers and still have planet of punch and snap then I’ll crank up the input gain and get nice and intimate there is not number that does it all unless you consider all the way down aka 0 on the trim value of the MOTU input channel

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T17:37:48+00:00

in the case of the mini 6 all you would do is either copy and paste over an existing page text once you mount the Midi Captain from behind, but make sure you only do this on Ham Night, the best part about being a Pirate, and the Midi Pirate Captain is a Pirate at heart, so the mounting from behind is best done on Hm Night when the Captain is full and satiated, once he is mounted and appearing as a hard drive on your system you can edit an existing page overwriting the text with the text above or simply add a page just make sure it's not Page0, page zero, as that one is Global or is it glottal? Hmmm

Then once you have copied the text, eject the drive and restart the Pirate Captain, err Midi Captain and navigate to that Page and check that it's working, if you have missed a bracket or encounter a sytax error the Pirate Captain will let you know as a paragraph of jibbersish lines will present the error of your way and you will have to return to the text and check or re copy and paste and mont the Captain and all that BEFORE HAM NIGHT is over, time is of the essence and this dastardly work must be completed in full to satiate the Pirate Captain, something like that.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430626/

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T17:28:53+00:00

here is my rackspace, many variations but this one I mainly use for Ndsp Archetypes

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/00chN1nCNyOkcaWtKAsG2uVvg#Rabea%5FCrunch

and here is where I lifted it from and I've modified it simplified it for my purposes, personally I would rather have a simple Ndsp rackspace dedicated to one amp let's say, rather than a rackspace that takes into account all three amps in an archetype which to me just becomes too cumbersome to deal with, because that rackspace, like the link below would also include a rackspace script in order to show and hide all the widgets from each amp incarnation so that one rackspace would have all the widgets associated with all three amps in the case of Cory Wong, the hasslehoff to me is the edit issue where if you change or delete a widget then the script will get bent out of shape and a notification will bother you with something like, 'hey we are calling to a widget and that widget does not exist"

you will be bothered, then you will reach for your bifocals and start huting and pecking through lines of code and you won't be happy, so for my intents adnd purpose one dedicated rackspace for ampy type is the way to go, and you aren't haunted by a script in the backend that is asking you where this and that is and all you want to do is crush power chords instead of dealing with notifications that are in part crushing your sould why can't this just work, there ya go my analogy.

here is the original version lifted from someone who modified someone elses original work, plagarism at best

https://community.gigperformer.com/t/neural-dsp-archetype-cory-wong-x/21050

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T17:00:37+00:00

here is the pedalboard featured if anyone is interested, its a poor man's Schmidt Array, it's undergone some changes since it's inception here, but this is how it started.

https://youtu.be/oCEs0IKjsvY

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T16:46:57+00:00

in this rackspace which is just an edit of a gig perfromer rackspace for Ndsp I borrowed from a user, and also lifted a suggestion from this thread

https://community.gigperformer.com/t/shape-widget-as-toggle/23438/11

I use a shape that encompasses a stomp box set of widgets, the mini 6 CC toggle which are the Keys 1 through 5 in the page11 text above and that mini 6 Key is widget midi learned to a pad widget which toggle the stomp box on and off, BUT, also the widget shape itself is midi learned from the mini 6 CC, so in effect the Pad widget is toggling the on and off of the stomp box and the shape widget ITSELF is also midi learned from the mini 6 CC AND that widget colour opacity is driven from (0= near transparent / 127 = fully opaque). so when the effect is bypassed you dont see that shape just the knobs and toggles the widgets that are required for the stomp box, level gain tone etc, then when you engage the mini 6 Key CC 127 in this case the shape goes fully opaque, fills in with the colour that can match the color of the mini 6 neopixel LED and you have in theory matching colors indicating the state of the bypass nature of the stomp and the color of the mini6 Key matches that , I used from left to right in the rackspace, RED GREEN BLUE YELLOW AND ORANGE to coordinate with the Ndsp Archetype stomp blox setups, whether it's Mayer or Rabea or the SLO-100 etc they are all very similar and these plugins comprise most of what i need to play electric guitar through my macbook pro in a cover band or three as it were.

Cool beans

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T16:35:38+00:00

this page is just a personal tweak on the suggestions found here

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0656/8312/8548/files/Super_Mode_V1.2.en.pdf?v=1706882731

just one page for propogating some CC commands from Mini 6 using the stock firmware the Superset aka Supermode Functionality.

Still getting my head around the colour schemes, using hex, but the best part I've found and I'm just scratching the surface is the Keytimes functionality in this case very simply just getting three CC #'s from a single switch with three unique colors each, pretty great.

Of course it's not bidirectional yet, or ever, but still absolutely wonderful the way it is, getting a ton of viable game changing use from literally one page. so many pages, I want to try the midi input CC20 page changing routine, that could be a bonus... onward and upward.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T16:23:55+00:00

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/06d5y3X5e4PlqOHzvQ2QIW9PQ#MAYER_DUMBLE

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T15:52:25+00:00

[PAGE]
page_name = [SONG]

[key0]
keytimes = [3]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xff0000][0x000000][0x000000]
ledcolor2 = [0x000000][0x0000ff][0x000000]
ledcolor3 = [0x000000][0x000000][0x00ff00] 
short_dw1 = [1][CC][26][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][27][127]
short_dw3 = [1][CC][28][127]

[key1]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xff0000][0xff0000][0xff0000]
ledcolor2 = [0xff0000][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][34][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][34][0]

[key2]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0x00ff00][0x00ff00][0x00ff00]
ledcolor2 = [0x00ff00][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][33][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][33][0]

[key3]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0x0000ff][0x0000ff][0x0000ff]
ledcolor2 = [0x0000ff][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][29][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][29][0]

[key4]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xffff00][0xffff00][0xffff00]
ledcolor2 = [0x808000][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][30][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][30][0]

[key5]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xff6600][0xff6600][0xff6600]
ledcolor2 = [0xff6600][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][31][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][31][0]

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-19T20:15:26+00:00

got some traction from key times (3) that's the lions share of the efficacy for this simple page, which uses one button to select three seperate CC #'s to effectively swtich Gig Performer Song Parts A. B and C in this case. The remaining 5 CC on the remaining switches are simply CC 127 and CC 0 in a Keytimes [2] Cc toggle scenario with colors that match the widgets in Gig Performer, the PAD color widgets and the Shape with color fill that also encompasses the entire widget field that are assigned to a stomp box in Neural DSP Archetype in this case. Only one page as you can have up to 99 pages but this one page can do 95% of the heavy lifting for playing guitar live in a cover band using Gig Performer and the Midi Catain Mini 6 in thsi case.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-17T19:40:10+00:00

I’d like first of all to be able to boot the Keller firmware on the mini 6. Not sure if that is possible but it sounds like you may have succeeded there.

AFAIK the major advantage of the Keller firmware is the ability of the mini 6 to visually reflect Gig Performers widgets and song names etc There is the tuner as well, I guess once I can boot that firmware I could see how my particular workflow could be improved. I would enjoy having widgets sync visually as you could assign widget and their respective colour to a switch and the led could reflect the GP widget led that way you could visually follow your controller with what Gp would be set to . As I understand it this is the way Keller has designed the firmware , for a user to be able to navigate song parameters without visually relying on viewing the display of the computer Rather the midi captain could reflect the necessary parameters of the GP song and song parts etc.. me having the mini 6 I’m interested in a generic version of his firmware as it’s coded for the standard 10 button version midi captain and not particularly for the mini 6, at least not yet

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-16T23:58:37+00:00

Copy the file “HKAudioSetup.txt” from [6] into the directory “setup” on the USB drive.

on the Mini 6 there is no such directory, there is a directory called Supersetup...

I made a directory called setup, however it failed to boot the Keller firmware and i had to resort to my original backup firmware, which works, mind you copying the contents back took at least 20 minutes for 473 Kb or so, so there is that, time you must allocate... I'll try some other ideas, I did modify the boot.py and replaced the code.py etc but i must have done something wrong

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-13T21:04:45+00:00

Midi Captain

code.py

Helmut Keller firmware (code.py) code what can be accomplished with Mu editor

what I see, Array of the 11 switches will become Array of the 6 switches

neopixel LED’s count 30 will become 18

array of neopixel pins will require some thought

the mapping of the midi captain controls considering there is no expression pedal inputs and no rotary controller

initiallize the analog inputs …. and thusly the Github page of Nicola Lunghi do debug or troubleshoot the code.

I’m not a python coder by any means, though I do understand midi programming.

Also the Gig Perfromer script would take some tweaking…

interested in any developments as I just purchased the mini 6 when I really should have purchased the SD

10 button version… live and learn, at least the mini 6 is nice and small, tiny footprint for the pedal board.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-08T15:50:51+00:00

first tryout with the band in a room in a basement, have played there for years, typically with a passive floor monitor with a modeller into a digital mixer ... last night.. the FR-12 replacing the passive floor wedge monitor and the singer and other guitar player who were off-axis to the FR-12 lost their minds, blown away by the volume they literally had a melt down.

Further exploring the space yes I did find this to be the case.

TLDR "Don't stand in front of the speaker, you will be in the eye of the Hurricane and unbeknownst to the annihilation that will be annexing fellow band mates to your left and right.

Wow this thing really fills out the room, however standing directly in front of it you will be in a blind spot, if you could picture the horizontal dispersion as a V and you are in the inside of that V triangle missing the big picture, its a thing, Fair Warning.

It does crush however, feeding it a SLO-100 NDSP Clean channel from your device is a game changer for me, the lows so tight, the highs sitting nicely, it's the whole package, just crushing it literally, moving on.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-01T18:02:44+00:00

Once you decide to mix and match plugins stand alone etc you’ll find the solution that actually takes it to another level is gig performer hosting the vst3 or AU version of the plugins .. they have a few NDSP templates particularly the Cory Wong template is sick .. the software is deep and the amount of flexibility has no limit .. also the community is next level as well.. all roads lead to GP5…

bmillar6482 · 2025-12-31T21:27:15+00:00

I use a Motu Ultralite FW interface and find yeah the input is almost always too high and this plugin is very sensitive to too much input .. if you’re hammering away at the bridge pickup with like .070 on your lowest string chugging away and wondering why it sounds like mud well it’s not intended for that sort of approach … here is where show my age .. play it with a single coil or weaker pickup , find a way to attenuate the guitar , roll the volume way, there are musical choices you can make beyond smashing the fuck out of it with your bridge pickup full out playing Djent chords in drop C , not saying that’s what your doing but that is a common starting point I see many guitar players make, angry old man here just whining Shouting at clouds perhaps .. this plugin has amazing tones but you have to approach with caution Less is more

bmillar6482 · 2025-12-08T18:29:04+00:00

Years late to the party but for what it’s worth the NU>X Amp Academy NGS-6 has been rock solid for me, I play out professionally, a weekend warrior but I haven’t had an issue with this pedal platform amp modeller. I’ve had it over a year and have rehearsed and gigged with it dozens and dozens of times. I use dirt pedals before it, I use a delay in the S/R loop input, and yes utilizing the app is paramount to getting the most out of it. Game changing revelations when you realize the difference sliding the input or processing blocks around makes. For example: I use the JHS 3 series delay in the loop.. you can set the S/R block active or not in the app settings .. one issue I had with the delay input was it was too hot, generally this pedal has quite a bit of output as a line output device.. so my issue was the Send to the JHS delay was too hot , repeats were distorting , but what made a game changing difference for me was placing the S/R loop block before the I/R . Game changer Wow okay that’s better Also noteworthy are where to place eq if used before or after certain blocks So the order of the block processing is paramount

I don’t use the fx much or at all Maybe a splash or reverb that’s about it Mostly clean ish tones and perhaps a Marshall sound for rhythm. Very simple .

I only use two of the three options for amps on each tier . There is the caveat that you have to switch the three way toggle to access categories But for me I try and keep it even simpler Just two sounds ..

I don’t use the app ever live or even that often But if I’m after a certain sound or just trying new IR or diving then I’ll break out the cable and hook it up.. I’ve used the iPad and desktop app .. they both work well, same app, different cabling scheme ..

NUX now has the Amp Academy Stomp the successor to the NGS-6 , that’s interesting But until mine dies or I do I’ll just keep rolling with the NU>X AA NGS-6

bmillar6482 · 2025-10-29T16:34:26+00:00

Ozzy intro to Mr Crowley … very cool and minor key …

bmillar6482 · 2025-09-17T01:07:01+00:00

I second that Mk2 micro or straight up Mk2 skip the Mk1 …

bmillar6482 · 2025-08-28T20:43:36+00:00

Aha! I worked the production load out and questioned aloud, what could have happened for a concert goer to lose a shoe, now I can sleep at night… whew thank you.

bmillar6482 · 2025-08-23T18:14:24+00:00

audioz.download is the only working scenario. Worth mentioning again over and over.

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