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By Wastedwords Sun Dec 28, 2025 10:40 am
Hello everyone, I urgently need help because I'm desperately searching for an answer. I have two footswitches for working with MIDI on my MPC Key 37 (last update). I want to be able to use the play and tap tempo functions. The first footswitch is an M-Wave Chocolate Bluetooth and the second is a Sonicake connected to the sustain and FS2 ports. I can't figure out the MIDI messages for these two functions in either case. Does anyone know the CC messages for play and tap tempo? SysEx messages would also be helpful. I can't find any clear information about this problem. Thank you all very much.
By Elijah Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:22 am
If you want to start MPC sequence playback from a footswitch, try sending MMC commands (SysEx messages).
For example, the MMC Play command is:

F0 7F 7F 06 02 F7

That should trigger playback. Also make sure that Prefs > MIDI > Receive MMC is set to On.
By Wastedwords Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:21 am
Elijah wrote:If you want to start MPC sequence playback from a footswitch, try sending MMC commands (SysEx messages).
For example, the MMC Play command is:

F0 7F 7F 06 02 F7

That should trigger playback. Also make sure that Prefs > MIDI > Receive MMC is set to On.


Thanks for your answer.
Donyou know how I can send the tap tempo message?
By Elijah Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:50 pm
Wastedwords wrote:
Elijah wrote:If you want to start MPC sequence playback from a footswitch, try sending MMC commands (SysEx messages).
For example, the MMC Play command is:

F0 7F 7F 06 02 F7

That should trigger playback. Also make sure that Prefs > MIDI > Receive MMC is set to On.


Thanks for your answer.
Donyou know how I can send the tap tempo message?

You probably can’t assign tap tempo to a MIDI CC or a similar message. One workaround is to set the MPC as a MIDI clock slave and have it receive clock from a pedal like this, which might give you the behavior you want. Just note that when the MPC is running as a clock slave, it can’t record audio.
https://www.disasterareadesigns.com/sho ... clock-gen4

If you can do some programming, you could use the RK-002 and connect it like this: Chocorate MIDI Out > RK-002 > MPC. Then you can use Chocorate’s MIDI CC messages to set the MIDI clock on the RK-002 and send it to the MPC.
By Wastedwords Tue Dec 30, 2025 3:47 pm
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You probably can’t assign tap tempo to a MIDI CC or a similar message. One workaround is to set the MPC as a MIDI clock slave and have it receive clock from a pedal like this, which might give you the behavior you want. Just note that when the MPC is running as a clock slave, it can’t record audio.
https://www.disasterareadesigns.com/sho ... clock-gen4

If you can do some programming, you could use the RK-002 and connect it like this: Chocorate MIDI Out > RK-002 > MPC. Then you can use Chocorate’s MIDI CC messages to set the MIDI clock on the RK-002 and send it to the MPC.[/quote]

Nice answer!! Thanx!
Do you know cheaper option??