How to equally divide ticks on supercontrol knob to match 6 sequential subs?

Question

In my layout, I have a Master (super) knob that I want to concurrently control:

1) one sub knob that has six ticks (labeled "Voices" in the attached layout)

2) six sub knobs that are sequential (labeled "V1, V2, etc...)

The desired behavior is to dial the Master knob and as each of the sequential sub knobs reaches max (and the next sequential knob starts to rotate), the other six-tick knob moves to the next tick.

Unfortunately, the behavior I am getting is not what I want.  The six-tick knob moves to the next tick before the first sequential sub knob reaches max.  The same thing happens with the second sequential knob.  It perfectly lines up only at the midpoint, between sequential sub knob 3 and 4.

How can I get things to line up exactly, as desired?

(Note:  In example photo, Sub1 is a sub of Master, but a super of V1, V2, etc...)

Here's the example layout:

http://mididesigner.com/qa/?qa=blob&qa_blobid=914356801714509410

Comments

Also, note that the text edit box for named ticks allows you to use a more powerful editor (e.g., Excel) to create your named ticks. Copy-and-paste is your friend.

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I changed the Voice knob (previously 6 ticks) to a 384-tick knob with repeating named ticks (MIDI values 1, 1, 1,...2, 2, 2,.... 6, 6, 6) But I can't get it to work the way I want.  I have the Destination knob set up with 384 named ticks.  The ticks are set up with MIDI values 0-63, repeating 6 times (0, 1, 2, 3,...63, 0, 1, 2, 3...). It's a supercontrol to the Voice knob.
Expected behavior:
As the Destination knob is turned tick-by-tick, the Voice knob should turn, tick by tick.

Observed behavior:
As the Destination knob is turned tick-by-tick, the Voice knob skips values so that on the Voice knob the dial reaches the half-way point by the time the Destination knob is dialed to tick 64.  It's like the Voice knob reads the MIDI value and moves the dial as a percentage of (MIDI value) 127.

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Try simple tests to figure things out. You're working on the final problem, which is where we need to get to, but you need to understand how MD works.

I just tried two knobs, both set to 14-bit CC, both with 1-150 display min-max and 150 ticks. One knob controlling the next, you get the ticks to line up perfectly.

Little tests will get us there, or at least help us to figure out where the problem is to create a coherent suggestion for future development of MD.

Thanks as always for your patience and resolve on this issue. I think we'll get it figured out. Please keep pushing forward.

Thanks!
Dan

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I hope "you need to understand" didn't sound pedantic. I just mean in terms of figuring out the problem, the initial phase is always "how does the tool work." Breaking the experiments into small parts is key to not working that hard on this.

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No problem.  I didn't read anything into it.  MD is deep and there is no official manual laying out the details (and minutiae), so we all have to help each other figure things out.  The videos help and the community is great.
I changed direction again and am on the verge of a solution (using the 6 sequential knobs).  I'll let you know how it goes once I figure out the details.