Morningstar Engineering MC4 pro

[Quatschmacher]

Looks like this will be the pro version of the MC3:

 

Edited January 17 by Quatschmacher

[Quatschmacher]

Looks lovely:

 

https://www.morningstar.io/mc4-pro

[Chadu25]

Want!!

[BigRedX]

Weird layout of foot switches. It's as though they don't want to make it user friendly.

[Higgie]

On 23/01/2026 at 07:51, BigRedX said:

Weird layout of foot switches. It's as though they don't want to make it user friendly.

What’s weird about it? Seems pretty logical to me when the pedal is based around the screen.

[Quatschmacher]

1 hour ago, Higgie said:

What’s weird about it? Seems pretty logical to me when the pedal is based around the screen.

And it’s basically the MC8 cut in half. Morningstar controllers are wonderful things. 

[BigRedX]

I suppose my foot pedal use is different to the majority of musicians who if they have anything complex appear to be rooted in front of it. 

 

In the past, if the stage was big enough I'd be all over the place and often have to rush back to my pedal(s) to be able to make patch changes. All the important footswitches had to be in the "front row" and even then there was a chance that I'd hit the wrong one. Anything in the second row that required mid-song operation would have resulted in me either also pressing a switch in front of it or falling over or both. Therefore for me anything with two rows of foot switches is generally impractical, as the top row can't be used by me mid-song.

 

As a result of this, these days all my patch changes are run from the backing track via MIDI so I don't have to worry about being in the right place at the right time to make changes to my sound. It has also allowed me to have patch changes exactly where the song requires them and not what is more convenient for me to activate manually. Some songs have changes every other bar, and a new song we are currently working has a change that comes every four bars but only lasts for 1 beat.