Digital Readout "Button"

Question

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Is there a capability to include a digital readout to display numeric (even text) data received by MD? I have a 39 byte Midi SysEx received message that contains a number that I would like to display (such as 1 to 32 or 000 to 999). Your webpage shows such a display. See the red number "12" in the image.

Thanks

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Comments

The answer by jkhiser is awesome. About that picture: that’s an XY pad. They still look something like that. Thanks!

Answer 1

Use a knob or picker, with Midi receive on

Neither is perfect, but either will achieve what you want.

Smallest you can make a picker is three lines, so it shows the value above and below the received value.  Guess I need to make a recommendation for a "display only" picker to show a received value.

With the knob, you can either rely on the numeric value in the middle, or when using named ticks, the text value is shown across the lower portion of the knob.

For either, you can turn off the numeric display and handle everything with named ticks.  I you go above 999, you have to do this, as that is the maximum numeric value MDP2 will automatically display.

I use these extensively through my apps when reading out the board values to initialize the MDP2 controls.

Comments

Thanks! I have 2 applications for a numeric readout for Hauptwerk organ applications that I have been working on.

One is based on keeping the organ setting and MD in sync using a Stepper that displays the numeric value from 1 to 32. the 3 line picker is ok but I would like the font size to be variable. The current reading is a bit small for my application. A single, larger fomt reading would be best.

Second is reading a 39 byte Midi SysEx receive message and selecting the appropriate bytes to display numbers from 000 to 999. I have analyzed the midi message and determined which bytes correspond to the 3 digits.

Answer 2

Use a knob or picker, with Midi receive on

Neither is perfect, but either will achieve what you want.

Smallest you can make a picker is three lines, so it shows the value above and below the received value.  Guess I need to make a recommendation for a "display only" picker to show a received value.

With the knob, you can either rely on the numeric value in the middle, or when using named ticks, the text value is shown across the lower portion of the knob.

For either, you can turn off the numeric display and handle everything with named ticks.  I you go above 999, you have to do this, as that is the maximum numeric value MDP2 will automatically display.

I use these extensively through my apps when reading out the board values to initialize the MDP2 controls.