Anyone know how to BYPASS an Eventide H9 using MIDI?

[ViperDoc]

I can't even get help on the Eventide forum, WTF.

I have no problem executing preset changes via MIDI with a G3 Atom, but I can't seem to get the H9 to go into bypass. It uses an H9 Control app to set it all up and I'm LOOKING at the CC# I've designated, I've even changed it to 5 different non-conflicting numbers. NO DICE. Can't even turn this $700 POS off. Any ideas?

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Make a preset with nothing going on?

 

[ViperDoc]

Yeah, I just saved another factory preset as bypassed and that works, but I don't want to accidentally turn that patch on. Strymons have a preset CC bypass message and value, it's so f^cking easy. EVENTIDE????? NOPE. thx.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Yeah, I enjoy my H9 alright, but it’s not always the most intuitive of boxes.

 

[KentuckyBoiledChiccan]

Not sure if thats the way but I made an preset with a EQ in bypass mode

 

[RickP]

Eventide does thing their way, for sure. They set up their program to respond to midi change (select cc# 22 gets you preset 22, for example) then allow you to also map functions to a switch state instead of a preset location. For example mapping CC# 60 to go to Bypass instead of preset 60. It’s been a long time since I messed with Eventide gear, so I looked around and saw a TGP discussion that I think may point you in the direction you need to go. Check the first response to the OP.

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/i...oes-prg-no-0-127-on-eventide-h9-mean.1390587/

 

[ViperDoc]

Personally, if I spend $700 on a pedal, the engineers can tell ME the f@cking MIDI control codes. It’s laziness in the name of flexibility. It has to be encoded somehow, I don’t see why they don’t just program it like Strymon does and I can just look it up plain and simple.

 

[ViperDoc]

I figured it out. You can set the CC channel of your choice for just about anything on the H9. I set my channel of choice for bypass but got confused at not being able to set a value higher than 99 on the LED screen . I set a value of 69 and the bypass worked. Needs to be a value higher than 65, apparently but I couldn’t find that anywhere in the user docs except the forums, which came through for me. Word.

 

[WA Paul]

Your MIDI ways confuse and frighten me!

 

[László]

I like the H9s so much I have two of them on my board. In my 'many racks of doom' days, I had an Eventide H3000 d/se that I used both for guitar, and as my main vocal reverb when singers came into the studio to lay down tracks; I loved the natural sound it had.

Later, I had the individual Eventide modulation, delay and reverb pedals.

For some reason, I love the sound of Eventide equipment. After years of using the H3000 with my MIDI gear to choose presets for mixing, maybe I just got used to their system.

Strymon stuff is very capable, too, but every company's gear seems to have a characteristic sound. Eventide floats my boat sound-wise.