Switch an effect via MIDI and device foot switch

[Abotte]

If you only need the option of using Dwarf’s footswitch as a fallback, you could use Control Button Board plugin: it’s not in the store, but you can find it in this thread:

Companion plugin for external MIDI control buttons

I had a need for this, so wrote it; if there is interest in this, I will be happy to send a pull request to be included after gate-keeping due diligence steps are done. The plugin has two buttons that work with each other thus - if the first one is mapped to an external MIDI controller and the second to a hardware button on the device, turning the latching MIDI on will turn on the hardware button display and off if turned off, and output a CV signal that can be used to control effects on the pe…

Basically you can control the Capo plugin with CV, and in Control Button Board plugin you will activate the CV with any of two switches:

• one to be mapped on a Dwarf’s footswitch
• one to be controlled by midi
  If at least one of the toggles is ON, the CV output will be set to HIGH.
  The state of Capo plugin will be shown by the led of the Dwarf footswitch.

It’s great to setup a pedalboard to be controlled via MIDI while having the fallback option to control it just with the Dwarf in case of anything bad happens to the MIDI controller.