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[Feature Request] Support for USB MIDI Devices on Nomad

I'm trying to build a Go Button box for my Nomad setup using a Teensy micro controller, which sends MSC messages down a USB cable to my laptop. QLab and other applications can receive these messages just fine, but I'd like to be able to control Nomad as well. It seems silly that other programs can understand them fine, but I'd have to redesign it to use OSC or buy a Show Control Gateway to use MIDI.

I'd prefer to stay away from OSC for this particular thing because I'd prefer to keep the number of devices sending Go's on the network as low as possible, and a USB cable is a lot more reliable than a network that could have many other things going on on it. I'd also like to keep away from sending fake keyboard commands as well, to avoid a situation where another window is in the foreground on my Mac and the Go's never reach Nomad. This seems like the kind of thing MSC was built for.

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    alexforey said:

    It seems silly that other programs can understand them fine, but I'd have to redesign it to use OSC or buy a Show Control Gateway to use MIDI.

    It's not silly, it's about development time.

    You should try your USB controller thingy using Cobalt on Nomad, if that works, the same support is due to be add at some point in Eos nomad.

    There is a long list of requests and things happen when they happen. There's a good reason Qlab have decide not to get into the lighting market, it's a bit more complicated then people think or are willing to pay for.

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    alexforey said:

    It seems silly that other programs can understand them fine, but I'd have to redesign it to use OSC or buy a Show Control Gateway to use MIDI.

    It's not silly, it's about development time.

    You should try your USB controller thingy using Cobalt on Nomad, if that works, the same support is due to be add at some point in Eos nomad.

    There is a long list of requests and things happen when they happen. There's a good reason Qlab have decide not to get into the lighting market, it's a bit more complicated then people think or are willing to pay for.

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