Hey there
It might be possible to use your midi controller and PC 121 to simulate holding down EXP button for 2 seconds: toggle on, wait two seconds, toggle off. I haven’t tried this yet. If it does work it will save whatever setup you currently have into the last used preset.

Yes, in fact you have access to 120 presets with MIDI. Just bear in mind, you will have no way of seeing which preset you are using without the foot pedal, as there is no display for it. I use MIDI extensively to control my gear, and will be making a lot of use of the presets, but I got the foot pedal anyway. The display matches the preset you select by MIDI PC command. I’ve yet to try presets over 99 though. I’ll be using a variable in the LGM2 and display it every time I change presets.

I’ve suggested to EHX about providing a real time parameter editor and preset manager for PC & Mac. Real time adjustment of parameters using on screen controls, then saving it simultaneously to the appropriate preset on HOG2 AND to preset file with a descriptive comment. Plus a decent preset manager that: detects all the changed presets and sends all the parameters and saves every changed preset to the HOG2. The program would have to be absolute master and the HOG2 slave as there’s no MIDI send on HOG2. Be great if the program comes with the HOG2 factory presets too.

Cool.
Yeah, I’m looking through the EHX archives to see if anyone else has two POG2s chained together.
I’ve found with both engaged they’re creating unwanted noise which I didn’t see coming.
Cheers,
— G.

POG2 is better than POG & Micro POG in some ways, but the original POG’s input slider enables you to drive it harder.
There is another thread on this topic, and the recommendation if you want to get the same attack through your POG2 as the POG is to use an overdrive pedal before it.

This is normal.
LP is a Low Pass filter, the lower you set it the lower the frequencies that pass to the output.
To Bypass LP you need to set it all the way up.
Attack and Detune need to be all the way down to Bypass them.

Correct.

A belated follow up for other readers. Most of this is covered in the manual.
* LP filter needs to be set all the way up to turn it off.
* Attack and Detune need to be all the way down to turn them off.

LED State MODE
Off – DRY bypasses all effects
RED – DRY goes through Attack control, bypasses LP Filter and Detune
GREEN – DRY goes through Attack and LP Filter, bypasses Detune
AMBER – DRY goes through all three effects: Attack, LP Filter and Detune

Where the POG has separate detune sliders for +1 & +2, the POG2 has a single Detune slider for both +ve octaves only, it doesn’t affect the -ve octaves. This is the only feature the POG offers that the POG2 doesn’t.
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I own both the Micro POG and POG2. The Micro POG is a neat little pedal, although personally I find it has a slightly plaintive quality to it’s octaves which I don’t like. Also I notice it’s slight latency whereas I don’t with the POG2. Although with two POG2s in a row both using octave effects the latency is noticeable.

In my view the POG2 is superior to the original in almost every aspect: Smaller foot print; 9vDC; -2 octave; Attack effect; Separate control over “Q” & LP Filter … and Attack that applies to all octaves, and which apply to Dry; 8 presets which can be selected by a foot switch. I don’t mind that I don’t have individual control over octave up dry/detune levels, it seems a very small price for the trade off.

What’s more it’s very easy to install a relay switch control to the preset switch, so a remote MIDI controlled relay switch can select POG2 presets. The POG2 itself is seated off the floor board up next to other MIDI controlled effects. Instead of having to hit the POG2 bypass, one preset is clean and dry effectively serving the same purpose.

To do this requires installing a 4mm stereo jack into the side of the enclosure out of the way of the other circuitry, wire tip and ring to the two contacts of the preset switch. Do not wire the jack’s shield/ground to anything, if you’re using a dual core shielded cable to the relay, then the jack’s shield can be wired to this, but make sure the shield never contacts either of the relay connections or the jack’s tip/ring.
When you connect then disconnect the installed jack’s tip and ring it’s the same as stepping on the preset switch. Which is what the FCB1010 relays do. FCB1010 relays have mono 1/4″ jacks, do NOT wire the POG2’s new jack’s shield to either of the FCB1010’s relay connections.

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Cheers,
— G.