Reset button on/off status without sending Midi messages

Question

Hi, I'm not sure if his is possible or not but any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to set up a custom lighting controller and wondering if there is any way to release the current "on" status of a button in a supercontrol/subcontrol group without sending the Midi message that would normally be sent when the button is turned off  so it would just clear any "on"  button statuses and not send any Midi messages  

I have a bunch of buttons grouped into sub controls of a knob that is a supercontroller so only one of the buttons can be selected at a time. They are configured so that you can turn each button (and corresponding light fixture) on or off, or when selecting another button in the group the one turns off and the other turns on.  I have several of these groups set up for different functions (Derby, Strobe, Wash, etc.) and this is all working great. This allows customization of the lighting while on a preset/scene for ultimate flexibility.

The problem is that when I switch to a new preset, any buttons that were "on" remain on but I would like to clear the status without pressing each one and as a result sending the corresponding Midi messages. Is this possible?

Comments

Oops.. I may have spoken too soon. I think I had something set wonky. If I get it working I'll follow up just in case anyone else wants to try this in the future.

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Seems like button group subcontrols act as send-on-only or not based on ONE of their button group supers (so they cannot be both send-on-only and NOT send on only)... however your investigation might give you other insights. Thanks.

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Did this turn out to be impossible? Thanks!

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Sorry for the delay, I wasn't able to figure out a way to do it without an off message being sent and haven't had time to do further experimentation so I'm still manually shutting off all of the buttons for now.

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Hmmm... alright, I'll need to think about this. It's a really odd one-off request, but perhaps there's some utility in providing a page OFF button so that you can change all parameters without sending. Or easier than that would be a ALL MIDI OFF button so you can twiddle and nothing goes out.