Embedding super control values into midi commands on sub control

Question

REVISED:

I need a byte injected into a SYSEX command, where the value of the byte is provided by a super control.

 

I have tried using a channel changer, but as the value I need is either 50h or 60h, Midi Designer crashes when I try to set the default mid value to 50h. That makes sense though as the value I want is outside the range of 1-16 that a midi channel would use.

A midi command might look like this:

41 00 00 00 1C 12 60 00 20 14 V

But be changed to this

41 00 00 00 1C 12 S 00 20 14 V

S would represent the current value of the super control.

 

Answer 1

Yes you can.

i suppose you are using sysex.

In the sysex message the byte that represents the channel has to entered as "L".

Then use another control as Channel Changer and make this a super of the control that is sending the sysex message

Comments

Thanks @Chris, please get in touch via in-app mail or use any other method...

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I've got two pages of controls working now where a channel changer is used to modify a byte in a Sysex cmd. Setting the default value on the changer manually seemed to crash MD. I'll put together an email with a test case and template so you can reproduce.

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Hi Chris and thanks for this. We've done some initial testing and cannot replicate. If you want to try to whittle down your example to just one page, or even just two controls, that would be great, please. Thanks!

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I can't replicate this either now. At the time I was doing a fair bit of Make Similar...but then I flicked to using Save Page/Load Page, to duplicate large sets of controls, after which I'd have to set the default value on the Channel Changer to wire it to the alternate signal path that the new page was intended to control.

Please feel free to park it for now. If I come across it again I'll resubmit.

Many thanks for the follow up

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Well I did replicate this crash.
It happens for me in a Sussex fader. If you change the midi range( min-max) and the default value doesn't get updated to be inside the midi range.  If you try to change it then MD crashes.
Have not tried this with other midi messages.

Answer 2

Yes you can.

i suppose you are using sysex.

In the sysex message the byte that represents the channel has to entered as "L".

Then use another control as Channel Changer and make this a super of the control that is sending the sysex message