Multiple pedals workflow

I am using the MC6 with up to 8 Midi pedals. So far I have programmed

several banks to achieve control of each individual pedal, and the MC6

is particularly nice with the Empress looper.

Now I was hoping that the MC6 would be a breakthrough for controlling

together multiple pedals, but it seems very limited, unless I am missing

something.

What I did was to program each multi-pedal preset so that it engages

several pedals in pos1, sends a couple of CC and PC to those pedals, and

then bypasses all of them in pos2. This works for sure, however with 3 to 4

messages required per pedal and only 16 available messages on the MC6, one

can barely control 4 pedals at the same time.

In fact the number of controllable pedals is closer to 3 in practice. Indeed,

one also needs to add a bypass message to any pedal that is not used in the

current preset, in order to make sure that no unwanted pedal will remain active

when directly switching from another preset or bank.

Some kind of macros would help here. For instance defining a Preset whose

purpose is to disable all pedals, and that could be called from another preset.

I've seen in the Suggestion forum that many people have requested macros for

similar purposes. Hoping such solution will come some day...