programming possibilities.

Hey, Steve I was trying to find out if its possible to make controller programming changes via MT? Starting off im interested in understanding if i can make a pad bank or knob bank change via MT vs manually doing it on the controller? Please let me know. Thanks!

It really depends on the controller capabilities. Some controllers have motorized faders where you can adjust their values. Others you can adjust the LED value settings. Most will not allow you to change their actual values unless it has either one or more of these capabilities. The are usually used for “controlling” other equipment as opposed to being controlled. Some are programmable so that you can have knobs send other value types but it usually requires the manufacturers supplied program to change their programming (which is done through Sysex type messages).

If you can be more specific on the controller type you have and what you want to do, I might have more information on whether it is possible.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Q and A Moderator and
Independent Bome Consultant/Specialist
bome@sniz.biz

 

im interested in this regarding akai mpd 32, panarama p1. and numark orbit

With the MPD32 you can save presets (send Sysex) from the device to a target location. If you want to call up that preset remotely, you can send the same information back to the MPD 32 and it will call it up.

MT Pro does not have any native way of handling these messages, however you could conceptually route these to anothe program that could save them to a file. You could then use MT pro to call up a program to resend a saved preset back to the device.

I’ve played around with some programs that might help. Check out “sendmidi” and “rcvmidi” on GITHUB. It looks like they have binary builds for the Mac. You would have to decided the incoming trigger needed for MT Pro to invoke either AppleScript or command line on Mac. In this scenario, these programs would essentially be “helper applications”. I believe also Bome SendSX would work but I think it is only available on Windows platform.

I’m not sure if you can trigger sending Sysex from the MPD32 remotely or you have to do it on the controller. I couldn’t find reference to anything in the owners manual.

As far as the Nektar Panarama P1 or Numark Orbit. I couldn’t find anything about this on their web sites. I would recommend you ask the manufacturers if there is a “full MIDI spec” of all supported MIDI messages by these units. Specifically it looks like you want to remotely control preset loads/changes. Again, MT Pro really doesn’t do this direclty but could use a helper app of sorts to actually do the transmission and receipt of MIDI sysex files.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Q and A Moderator and
Independent Bome Consultant/Specialist
bome@sniz.biz

 

 

 

Thanks!