Wah Toggle CC Not Working in Gig Performer

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Hi,

I’m using a Morningstar MC6 to control Neural DSP’s Archetype: Gojira plugin inside Gig Performer.

Expression Pedal (CC #11) mapped to “WOW Pedal” works perfectly — it sweeps the wah as expected.

Toggle Switch (CC #12) is mapped to “WOW Active” in Gojira plugin MIDI settings.

In standalone Gojira, CC #12 toggle does activate the wah effect correctly.

In Gig Performer, MIDI Monitor shows that CC #12 messages (0/127) are being received.

However, in the plugin inside GP, the wah doesn’t activate — only the expression sweep works.

I’ve confirmed that:

Gojira plugin is set up with “WOW Active” mapped to CC #12.

MIDI In block in GP is correctly routed from Morningstar MC6.

GP’s MIDI monitor sees CC #12, but plugin does not respond to it.

Is there something I might be missing about how Gig Performer passes or filters MIDI CC to the plugin?

Thank you in advance, JS

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Can you upload a small gig file showing the issue?
Did you try map a widget to the plugin parameter and control that widget via incoming MIDI.
This is much better - called HOST automation - than directly control plugin paremeters via MIDI.

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Yes. With a few exceptions you shouldn’t send CC messages to plugins. You should map the MIDI messages to widgets and then map the widgets to plugin parameters

The exceptions are Sustain (CC 64) and possibly Volume (CC 7) though even the latter shouldn’t be used if the plugin has a parameter for volume control and even then it’s generally better to control volume using a mixer block.

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Hi @pianopaul @dhj , thx for fast feedback, just for this reason I don’t regret buying GP. It works now, and for others who just started with GP, I followed your advice and have done following:

I used two widgets in Gig Performer:

  • One knob widget mapped to “WOW Active” (to toggle the wah on/off)
  • One pedal widget mapped to “WOW Pedal” (to control the wah sweep)

I assigned:

  • CC #12 (from my Morningstar preset) to the Wah Active toggle widget
  • CC #11 (expression pedal) to the Wah Pedal sweep widget

Instead of sending CC directly to the plugin, I followed your advice and used host automation via widgets. That solved the issue of Gojira not responding to toggle CC inside Gig Performer.

Huge thanks again for the guidance. BR, J.S.

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