Prevent stepper wrap-around

Question

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I have a stepper with buttons that sequentially increments and decrements DOWN and UP controls for a Hauptwerk organ. The MD buttons should indicate the organ numeric display setting. The organ functionality goes from 1 to 32 and does not wrap-around. That is, when 1 is selected and DOWNi is pressed, the setting remains at 1. Similarly if Up (►) is selected at 32, the organ stays at 32. Is there a way to duplicate this in MD? the MD stepper will wrap-around, going from 1 to 32 or 32 to 1. Thus the MD display does not track the organ display.

I am using step 33 to light the Sync button, my workaround, but this not always valid. 

Images

MD Cued Combo Stepper

Organ Stepper showing Cued DOWN (Left triangle) and UP (right triangle) & digital readout

Answer 1

Select no wrap around in super control options

In the supercontrol options, you have three choices, stepper, force not stepper, and stepper (no wrap around).  The last is what you want.

Comments

THANKS! That was obvious if the choice appeared in the latest manual (Version 2.5). The manual seems to be published back in 2015. Since I am relatively new to MD, I spent a lot of trial and error time trying to get it to work for my application. Why isn't the User Reference manual updated?

Using no wrap around works, and I soon will be updating the Layout I just submitted for Hauptwerk Organ Stepper Function and then publishing it on the Hauptwerk Facebook Group.

I feel the MD approach to Hauptwerk VPO control is far superior to other approaches such as LaunchPad. There should be a manual dealing with VPO organ applications to make it acceptable to the Hauptwerk (and possibly other VPOs) community. I've been pushing MD in the Hauptwerk Facebook Group, but haven't had a lot of response.

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Re: Hauptwerk - it seems that each individual HW setup is very tailored, so MDP2 may be a challenge.  If a user has done any setup with controls, going to be uphill to get them to re-learn all the controls to match MDP2.  I got MDP2 and HW about the same time, so I started my journey with MDP2 as an integrated part of the setup.

Re: user manual - working something there - stay tuned.

Answer 2

Select no wrap around in super control options

In the supercontrol options, you have three choices, stepper, force not stepper, and stepper (no wrap around).  The last is what you want.