Congo and MIDI

Hello

Certainly we fail to use the Midi Show Control.

We try to drive the Congo Jr 2, with the Congo Jr 1.

The midi OUT plug is connected on Congo 1.

The midi IN plug is connected on Congo 2.

In the Setup Midi Show Control:

Congo 1, Enable and ID 2

Congo 2, Enable and ID 1.

Inside the Congo 1 there is a sequence with presets 1, 2, 3, 4...

Inside the Congo 2 there is a sequence with presets 301, 302, 303, 304...

The goal is that GO preset 2 on the Congo 1, triggers preset 301 on the Congo 2 .

On the Congo 1, in the Sequence List, at step 2 /preset 2, in the Action Macro column,

 We write F0 01 02 01 01 F7 7F (to make a Go on the preset 301, Congo 2).

When performing the Go on the Congo 1, Congo 2 does not react.

Have we done something wrong?

Someone have an idea?

See you soon

MLB 

Ignore the Action Macros, you do not need them.

Congo has perfectly good MIDI Show Control functionality for both Transmit and Receive:

• Press [Setup], look at the "MIDI" tab.
• Tick the "MIDI Show Control" tickybox.
• Ensure the "Device ID" matches on both consoles.
  - I notice that MLB has different Device IDs for Congo and Jr. This won't work as the 'master' and the 'slave' must have the same ID.
• Ensure the Preset numbers on the two consoles match.
  - Ueli is right that a Congo Preset number is the MSC Cue number.
  - Note that MSC only supports 1 decimal place so you can't use MSC to goto Preset 1.001, only 1.0, 1.1 etc

This will just work.

- You can use the Organiser to renumber large numbers of Presets, either by copy/paste (or drag'n'drop) into the same show (eg 2-tab Organiser), or by Importing them into a play and renumbering on Import.

Alternatively, you can insert 'trigger' Presets with matching numbers in the 'slave' sequence that autofollow into the next step (follow/wait time 0.01s)

I really don't understand why you would want to reimplement MSC using Action Macros to talk to another Congo.
The Action Macro MIDI syntax is there so you can use your Congo to talk to a third-party 'black box' MIDI device that you can't easily adjust.

Ignore the Action Macros, you do not need them.

Congo has perfectly good MIDI Show Control functionality for both Transmit and Receive:

• Press [Setup], look at the "MIDI" tab.
• Tick the "MIDI Show Control" tickybox.
• Ensure the "Device ID" matches on both consoles.
  - I notice that MLB has different Device IDs for Congo and Jr. This won't work as the 'master' and the 'slave' must have the same ID.
• Ensure the Preset numbers on the two consoles match.
  - Ueli is right that a Congo Preset number is the MSC Cue number.
  - Note that MSC only supports 1 decimal place so you can't use MSC to goto Preset 1.001, only 1.0, 1.1 etc

This will just work.

- You can use the Organiser to renumber large numbers of Presets, either by copy/paste (or drag'n'drop) into the same show (eg 2-tab Organiser), or by Importing them into a play and renumbering on Import.

Alternatively, you can insert 'trigger' Presets with matching numbers in the 'slave' sequence that autofollow into the next step (follow/wait time 0.01s)

I really don't understand why you would want to reimplement MSC using Action Macros to talk to another Congo.
The Action Macro MIDI syntax is there so you can use your Congo to talk to a third-party 'black box' MIDI device that you can't easily adjust.