Button Groups?

Question

What are button groups and how do they work?

Answer 1

See this blog article which explains everything you need to know.

Comments

I want to use this in my layouts too, but I notice that each button also sends its "Off" value when switching to another button, so two CCs are sent instead of just the one you want.
For example:
Button A (Off: 0, On: 0)
Button B (Off: 32, On: 32)
Button C (Off: 64, On: 64)

Log (first the button pressed, then the resulting CCs):
Button A (nothing was pressed before):
Data2=0 - good!

Button B:
Data2=0 - unnecessary
Data2=32

Button C:
Data2=32 - unnecessary
Data2=64

It's not extremely hindering, but it's again an extra CC that will get recorded and that spams the MIDI bus. Is there a way to circumvent this?
When setting the "Off" values to 0, the results are the same btw - I thought setting On and Off might result in the control NOT sending it's Off-value.

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Understood. Is this resulting in any problems with some particular device, or is it just a worry about the extra junk messages potentially clogging the line? Either way, I'll consider fixing it, of course.

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This is from October, but: now we have send-on-only, which you can do from the super or from any/all of the subs. Thanks!

Answer 2

See this blog article which explains everything you need to know.