3PC midi slaved to iPC master, but flying faders?....

I have a new Whole Hog iPC and a backup with widgets in a computer with 3PC running. I have successfully hooked them up now so that the board will fire midi out commands to the 3PC on the computer (with a $15 midi interface) and the 3PC will follow it with the cues running correctly, so have a slaved backup of the board so I could switch to backup if the board ever froze. But the virtual faders on the 3PC don't follow. Beause my show is pretty complex, if I ever had to flip the A/B switch, I would have to match the faders positions from the board to the computer virtual faders, but do it for every page of faders before I would be back to the same point in the show, and that cuold take a long time with a complex show, particularly if you can't remember them all off the top of your head.

In the Midi Windows there are windows about NOTE MAPPING and playback bars, is there any way to get these to make the faders on the 3PC track to the actual console?

Or any other way to do a true slaved backup?
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  • Hi Mutley. I would recommend running v3.2.0 in your case as it provides support for running a network tracking backup that will solve the problems you are facing with matching fader levels and so forth. It's really a much better solution than tracking through midi which as you have found has some holes in its ability to track fully.

    To answer your question directly, Fader control is not supported in our midi input note scheme. If we did support fader movement through midi notes it would likely sabotage our mini-wing hardware sales since it would leave the door open for users to pickup any third party USB midi device and turn it into a mini-wing.
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  • Hi Mutley. I would recommend running v3.2.0 in your case as it provides support for running a network tracking backup that will solve the problems you are facing with matching fader levels and so forth. It's really a much better solution than tracking through midi which as you have found has some holes in its ability to track fully.

    To answer your question directly, Fader control is not supported in our midi input note scheme. If we did support fader movement through midi notes it would likely sabotage our mini-wing hardware sales since it would leave the door open for users to pickup any third party USB midi device and turn it into a mini-wing.
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