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While I'm soldering the other modules, and before I get to the 820, I was
wondering if anyone has modified the bypass operation.

From what I can tell, this is how it is designed to work now: if the
Bypass jack is shorted to ground the effect is off, if the Bypass switch is
up the effect is off, if the switch is up and the pedal is shorted then its
off. When the effect is off the LED is on to warn you that you are
stepping on a pedal or have flicked a switch. Is this correct??

The controllers I have that send a positive voltage or CC#65 (whose value I
can easily convert to a voltage), such that the portamento would be on when
I'm stepping on a pedal or playing legato. To me, it seems very
counter-intuitive to keep my foot on a pedal unless I want an effect.

So in order to do per-note portamento, I would like to mod the 820 such
that: if the jack is receiving a voltage the effect is on regardless of the
switch, if the Bypass switch is up the effect is off unless the jack is
receiving a voltage, and if the Bypass switch is down the effect is still
on regardless of the jack input.

Does that make sense?? I thought of adding a gate-to-S-trigger converter
to the jack, but that wouldn't work since that would disable the switch
such that I couldn't leave the effect on.

Any ideas?? Regardless, I'm willing to get used to the LED :)