Super Control Timing

Question

I'm making a bunch of Super controls that act as voice presets.  These super controls connect to other controls, which send commands.  The commands have to be in a specific order, and when they complete they change the voice successfully.  I'm having some trouble with a specific bank of voices.  Apparently it takes some time to have all of the commands take effect.  All of the other banks change to the saved voice when I tap the super control button.  However, for this specific bank I actually have to hold down the super control button for about a second for the voice to change.  If I just tap it, it doesn't change.

All of the preset buttons have a control hierarchy as follows:

Preset Supercontrol -> Mode Change Supercontrol -> SysEx Message

                                 -> Bank Super Control ->MSB CC

                                                                      ->LSB CC

                                 -> Voice Program Change

 

Its complicated, but works.  I'm assuming that the messages are only sent as long as I'm depressing the control button, and when I stop the execution stops.  How can I make sure all of the messages are sent?

Comments

Hi Patrick, this should all be consistent within MIDI Designer, but we'll test for that too. First though, we'll investigate the most likely suspect, which is the MIDI Designer layout. Can you get a MIDI Monitor on your output somehow? Best would be on the computer, for instance. The supercontrol chain, once fired, goes to the end, even if the original control is deleted (you'd have to be fast). So... what's different about that chain? It could have the subs in a different order, etc. (they can be ordered, that's the edit button). Check out the output in a MIDI Monitor and let's investigate further, please.

Or go the other way: delete and recreate. Might save time but we wouldn't know the cause. I'd say: recreate and don't delete. That way we can see if it happens the second time, and have a "control" if the new one works.

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If I hold down the button for about a second everything works fine.  I think I'm ok.

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That's weird, but maybe it's due to how the target is reacting. If this isn't working out for you, let me know and send me the layout and we can get deeper into it. Thanks!