Footswitch for Spark
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@jonrdamesr The AirStep Spark is perfect. It makes jamming songs with multiple guitar tones a breeze. Fingers no longer have to leave the guitar to switch presets. Fantastic compliment to this great amp!
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Quick question Jon
Can you use the pedal switches to cycle up and down any tones or is it limited to just the four hardware slots?
I have a couple of rhythm and lead tones under the "rock" tab that it would be good to be able to quickly select by foot switch. I don't really want to have to move them to the amp hardware slots and lose the standard 4 that are already there.
Thanks for your time -
Ordered mine last week and website says end of July for shipment.............................
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@mailbox It will switch just the 4 presets but, it has two other options that allows you to turn on and off your delay, reverb, and mod in those presets and still toggle thru them.
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@Jon
Thanks for the feedback -that's how I suspected it might work.
So all I got to do is make sure the 4 original hardware settings are backed up before I replace them with the tones I want to use via the foot switch.
Sounds doable, and the benefits still just about outweigh the messing around. Thanks -
I have actually built my own footswitch which can do even more than the AirStep (Lite):
- Switch between HW presets
- Switch between custom presets (using banks)
- Toggle each effect in the chain for a selected preset
- Quick toggle Drive for selected preset
- Connect to the Spark App to receive and store new presets
- Act as a bluetooth keyboard to work with Looper apps (and others)
It was all built using an ESP32 platform as the basis and connecting switches and LEDs.
If you are interested, check out the source code at https://github.com/stangreg/Ignitron
Cheers,
Steffen -
@jonrdamesr said in Footswitch for Spark:
Hi there, I saw in another thread that you had purchased the Airstep Lite Spk. Can you tell me what's the difference with the Airstep Spk? For the life of me I can't figure this on the xsconic website or anywhere else. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out if the Airstep Lite Spk is like the regular Airstep Lite and lets you control not just the Spark bu other midi devices and software via bluetooth. Thanks for your help!