I read through the manual, I’m just not really clear on that one point. It says that altering the knobs while the preset is up changes the toe/heel settings for that knob on the preset. Is that temporary until I bring up the preset again, or have I altered the preset until I erase & reprogram?

Pure sonic mayhem since it appears that you can simultaneously control every control via CV with the expression presets and you can also gate the effect via the footswitch jack.

Question for EHX:

“When a preset is active, turning any of the 7 control knobs will save that knob’s new setting as both the heel-down and toe-down setting. The EFFECTS LED will flash red for half a second and then remain lit solid.”

Say I have a preset and I change one knob in this fashion then switch away and come back. Will that change still be in effect or was it temporary?

Also. . . is there a way to switch to the FX default expression setting without erasing the preset?

That’s really not what MIDI’s about. All-in-ones have their own preset switches built in and really don’t need midi communication. MIDI is more for getting multiple parts to work in harmony as well as expanding the control over your instruments.

MIDI’s just a communication protocol, much like the earlier control voltage & gate system used by many analog synths and used to this day in many pedals (including most EH pedals with expression jack which take 0-5v CV)

With MIDI you can turn bypass loops, A/B switchers, pedals, etc. on or off remotely & you can change their presets, as well as change your midi controller’s expression preset.

MIDI allows you to do with a full rig with 20-30 different parts what you could do with an all in one: turning effects on or off simultaneously.

Let’s say for a moment that you’re doing a song with your board & you want 3 very specific pedal combos to be on for each section:

Verse: soul preacher, HOG organ preset, small stone
Chorus: soul preacher, HOG 12 string preset, DMM
Lead: Big Muff

With the proper MIDI equipment you could switch between those combinations seamlessly with one stomp, rather than tap-dancing. It’s sort of like Sauron’s ring really. One ring to rule them all.

Also, since you have a 2880. . . if you had a drum machine- you could sync the two so they’re perfectly quantized and locked in rhythm with each other. AND with a MIDI set-up on different presets you could change between having your MIDI expression pedal controlling something on your HOG to controlling something on your 2880: like tempo for tape speed up/slow down (possible via MIDI CCs on the 2880)

Which brings me to my next point: CCs open up a device to pretty much anything you want to do.

For example, VIA the HOG 2’s CCs: You could freeze a chord, then bend it, then filter sweep it. Or bend & filter sweep it simultaneously.

Or via the HOG’s CCs, you could program a midi expression pedal to switch direction mid sweep so you can do 2 octave or 2 step bends.

Or you could program movement to the voice sliders, so you could have a sound where you have tremolo on one voice but not on another.

You could make expression settings where the voice changes gradually throughout the sweep of your expression pedal. Maybe at toe down you’ve got your 12 string sound, and a heel down you’ve got your organ sound.

On the simpler side, you could use midi just to give yourself a few extra footswitch. A spectral gate, expression mode, and a latching freeze footswitch for example.

It’s all about what you can dream up.

The midi CC table in the manual. It gives me ideas.

Few things:

With MIDI you can mix expression modes to a bit. There’s CCs for master volume, expression, freeze gliss, and filter. Also CCs for the individual voices you could do some really cool things.

Wonder what if it will cost the same as the original.

Can the HOG2 foot controller be used with the HOG1? Or do I have to upgrade?

Nice demo man! Cool effectology-like.

Doesn’t solve the lack of fixed position thing.

It’d be nice if they made a “pedalboard mounting kit” that offers a pivot that rests under the pedal, holds position, and can simply grab the pedal with a claw. Sound good?

Seems there could a be a DIY solution here. Mount the pedal to a rigging that will let you rock it and hold it in place maybe? That’d also make it be mountable on a pedal board.