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SmartFade ML and MIDI

Hey all.

I made the big mistake of looking at the back of my console and seeing MIDI ports there. This caused me to think logically and assume that they were useful. I've been beating my head against a brick wall on 2 PC systems with Ableton Live 9 and Pro Tools 10 trying to get a MIDI triggered light show happening. Is there any way to do this at all?

With Ableton I got as far as getting the notes to trigger the buttons on the console, but just for my first fixture @ DMX 10 (which is programmed 1. Red; 2. Green; 3. Blue; etc....). If I fiddle around I can get the second light @ DMX 20 (which is programmed the same, only on mem bank 2), but it just does what light 1 was doing exactly, and light 1 now sits there and does nothing.

I had a crack with Pro Tools and it's just a disaster. Send one note to the board and the first light just goes flashing like crazy. I've tried recording and that's just as unpredictable. They're just 45w RGB cans, they shouldn't be that hard.

Can anyone help?

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  • Page 30 in the manual will give you the MIDI events that the SFML will send and respond to - here they are:

    1. Controllers

      • 1-24 = Master 1-24 (only in MEM mode)

      • 124 = Live fader

      • 125 = Next fader

      • 126 = Bump Master

      • 127 = Grand Master

        Program Change

        • 0 = Reset the Stack to step 0

        • 1-99 = GOTO step 1-99 in the Stack

        • 100-111 = Memory pages 1-12

        • 124 = Pause

        • 125 = Start (GO)

        • 126 = B.O. not active

        • 127 = B.O. active
          Note on/off
          • 0-47 = MEM bumps 1-48 (only in MEM mode)

           

          From the above info you will see that you can only control the fader masters of MEMORY channels, change memory fader banks, Memory bumps,  master control faders (Live Next Bump & Grand Master), go to a step in the Stack or reset, start or pause the Stack or activate Blackout.

          This means that if you want to control just a single DMX CHANNEL via midi you will first need to record that single channel to a memory location, then activate that memory by the memory bank and fader midi messages.  

          Upshot is that you still need to do all your programming on the SFML, then trigger those memories or the stack via MIDI messages.

          You may find this interesting: 

          http://community.etcconnect.com/wikis/products/smartfade-touchosc-layouts.aspx

          I made this layout for Touch OSC more as a wireless remote for SFML - it works entirely on midi messages.

          Good luck



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  • Page 30 in the manual will give you the MIDI events that the SFML will send and respond to - here they are:

    1. Controllers

      • 1-24 = Master 1-24 (only in MEM mode)

      • 124 = Live fader

      • 125 = Next fader

      • 126 = Bump Master

      • 127 = Grand Master

        Program Change

        • 0 = Reset the Stack to step 0

        • 1-99 = GOTO step 1-99 in the Stack

        • 100-111 = Memory pages 1-12

        • 124 = Pause

        • 125 = Start (GO)

        • 126 = B.O. not active

        • 127 = B.O. active
          Note on/off
          • 0-47 = MEM bumps 1-48 (only in MEM mode)

           

          From the above info you will see that you can only control the fader masters of MEMORY channels, change memory fader banks, Memory bumps,  master control faders (Live Next Bump & Grand Master), go to a step in the Stack or reset, start or pause the Stack or activate Blackout.

          This means that if you want to control just a single DMX CHANNEL via midi you will first need to record that single channel to a memory location, then activate that memory by the memory bank and fader midi messages.  

          Upshot is that you still need to do all your programming on the SFML, then trigger those memories or the stack via MIDI messages.

          You may find this interesting: 

          http://community.etcconnect.com/wikis/products/smartfade-touchosc-layouts.aspx

          I made this layout for Touch OSC more as a wireless remote for SFML - it works entirely on midi messages.

          Good luck



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