Zoom MS Utility MS-50G / MS-60B / MS-70CDR

What's new v1.0.1

• Fix the switch behavior when clicking
• The parameter display is now the same as the device display when the DELAY's Time is tempo sync
• By double-clicking the parameter value display, numerical values edit from the keyboard is enabled

Usage

• Launch
  
  • Connect PC/Mac to MS-50G / 60B / 70CDR via USB.
  • Launch this page. You should use latest Chrome browser. Close all other Chrome windows if you have MidiPort detection problem.
  • Press "Allow" if 'MIDI device' permission dialog is displayed. (press keyboard icon on right edge of address bar and retry if you make a mistake)
  • After splash screen, all patches and effects with parameters are displayed.
• Patches
  
  • Click patch name to select.
  • Patches are draggable to another position for overwrite/exchange.
  • Right-click (ctrl+click for Mac) or click on patch number button to show Context-menu.
  • From context-menu, you can do Copy/Paste/Rename/etc patches.
  • From context-menu, ExportToFile/ImportFromFile, each patch can be backup/restore to local file.
  • From context-menu, SavePatchToDevice, force each patch to be stored to device's memory.
  • The default folder for exporting patches (as well as banks) is determined by the browser specification. I recommend to set to "Ask where to save each file before downloading" in Chrome settings-advanced-downloads.
  • If you want to exchange patch data with BBS/forum/reddit/etc., 'Show Patch as text' and 'Import Patch from text' in the context menu are useful.
  • 'Show Patch as text' displays a patch expressed in text (hex string). It can be used for copying, saving, posting to BBS/forum/reddit/etc. etc.
  • 'Import Patch from text' will load patches by entering the text displayed in 'Show Patch as text'.
  • 'Import Patch from text' also support the format of MS-50G patch page in 'http://guitarpatches.com'. Copy entire text by (Ctrl-A / Ctrl-C) in patch page, and paste to Patch editor's input field
• Effects
  
  • In the bottom row, the 6 effects (4 in 60B) that are in use are displayed
  • Click effect name to switch effect/bypass
  • Effects are draggable to another position to change order
  • From right-click or number-button context menu, each effect can be add/move/deleted
  • Each parameter can be edited by drag(coarse)/shift-drag(fine)
  • Keyboard Up/Down to increase/decrease(fine), PageUp/PageDown(Shift+PageUp/Shift+PageDown) to increase/decrease(coarse) the value
  • Mouse wheel and Shift+wheel are also available to value edit
  • Also, numerical edit from the keyboard by double-clicking the displayed value
• Bank
  
  • Using the Export Bank/Import Bank buttons, all 50 patches can be saved/loaded as one zipped file.
  • Bank file is a .zip file that contains 50 patch files. It can be edited as normal .zip file if you need.
  • When a bank file is selected when one patch file is loading, a list in the bank file is displayed, and one patch can be selected from among them.
• Operation on the device
  
  • You can use both this patch editor and the knobs on the Zoom device. The patch selection and parameter adjustment on the device are also reflected in the patch editor.
  • It is also convenient to adjust parameters with the physical knob on the device while looking at the patch editor screen.
• AutoSave
  
  • Autosave mode is defaultly ON. But this is not automatically linked to device's "AUTOSAVE" mode. It is recommended to set according to device's "AUTOSAVE" mode.
  • In "AutoSave On" mode, patch replacement etc on the browser will be automatically stored to the device's memory.
  • If AutoSave is Off, patch replacement etc in the browser is not stored to device's memory until pressing the Save all patches button or Context-menu - SavePatchToDevice for each patch.
  • Note that device's "AUTOSAVE" mode is independent to this behavior. A patch may be stored to memory by operation of device itself.
  • "Save all patches" button will force all 50 patches to be stored to device's memory.
• DSP consumption
  
  • The green or red bars displayed next to each effect represent approximate DSP consumption.
  • It is approximated value and not strictly accurate, but in general, red means that the effect consumes more than 50% of DSP and yellow means more than 30%.
• Install check
  
  • With MS-50G ver 3, or with edited firmware on the MS-60B and MS-70CDR, you can select the effects to be installed. By 'Install Check' button, you can check which effect is installed.
  • In the effect list panel, the one with the green background is the actually installed effect on the device.
• Keyboard
  
  • Keyboard Left/Right is assigned to patch Down/Up, 'a'-'t':patch1-patch20, 'A'-'T':patch21-patch40 '1'-'9','0':patch41-patch50
  • Keyboard 'F1'-'F6' is assigned to On/Off each effect.
  • Keybeard 'F9' is assigned to Tuner mode On/Off.
• Usage in offline environment
  
  • If you want to use with no Internet connection, place the file on the local server and connect with http:// .
  • It does not work properly with file:/// which simply opens a local file in the browser.