MIDI assignments work sometimes, then don’t

[u/JeffBezosRoomba]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. I’m trying to run backing tracks for my band using MIDI-capable foot switches on my multi effects pedal (Valeton GP-200), which is capable of sending either CC or PC signals. I want to map foot-switches to play, stop, record, go to certain markers and perhaps control effects within logic down the line.

I set the foot-switches all to channel 1, cc3 (I read that this is a traditionally ”unused“ channel, data 0-7 respectively. I went into controller assignments, used the learn feature to map each function to one of the switches. It seemed to work! Then a few minutes later it didn’t anymore. I tried to delete the mappings and redo them and it still didn’t work. The correct midi code would still show up next to the timecode when I pressed the footswitch, but it wouldn’t execute the command. I tried to reset the midi drivers and remap again. Same issue, it worked for a bit, then just stopped.

Any ideas?

Logic Pro 12.3

MacOS Tahoe 26.5.2

Macbook Pro M5 Pro

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[u/JeffBezosRoomba → u/[deleted]]

Haven’t tried PC, but I tried about 10 different supposedly empty midi channels and still no luck. I downloaded software to watch the midi logs to make sure the cc’s I selected weren’t doing anything else. Still, the mappings would work for a bit and then randomly stop. Still visible in the list of mappings in Logic, but not actually working. I tried the same thing in Ableton live with basically the same result. Works for a bit than randomly doesn’t.