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Surface Fader send over multiple MIDI Channels/CC's

By Wide Blue Sky @Wide_Blue_Sky
    2021-11-01 18:53:24.708Z

    Reposting this under the Ideas forum (I found a workaround for my situation but this would still be great to have!)

    Hello, I am trying to control RME's TotalMix software using SoundFlow. Currently working on replacing an old Lemur rig.

    I would like a fader on the surface to control multiple faders in the TotalMix software. In Lemur, it simply sent the value over several Channels/CC's at once (Channel 1 CC 102,103,104, etc. plus Channel 2 CC 114,115,116, etc.)

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    1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-11-01 20:24:42.990Z

      Hi @Wide_Blue_Sky,

      Yea I can definitely see that being useful. What was the workaround you found? Using a script with the On Change event handler?

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      1. WWide Blue Sky @Wide_Blue_Sky
          2021-11-18 20:18:02.358Z

          RME's TotalMix ended up having the ability to link faders together in a group so that moving one moves all of them. So I just have SF moving one of them right now!

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          AlexanderW @AlexanderW
            2021-11-30 13:05:40.652Z

            Hey Wide blue sky,

            I also use RMEs Total Mix and am thinking about using SoundFlow to control TM in the future. It would be very tempting to set up a 'Monitor-Controller' and several other things by setting this up on my StreamDeck. It would be a very huge help to see how you managed to set up your Soundflow to get TM to be controlled by it.
            Cheers,
            Alex

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            1. WWide Blue Sky @Wide_Blue_Sky
                2021-12-02 19:51:50.221Z

                I ended up using TM's MIDI control ability to receive the MIDI CC from SoundFlow. TM is weird and has an interesting protocol for what CC controls what fader, so you'd have to dive a little deep to see how it lines up on your rig. Mine though for example has the Software 1-2 out mapped to MIDI CC 102 on Channel 5.

                I also have a quirky command running where when a surface fader is touched, it will briefly touch the TM fader to the corresponding physical output so that the submix of that output is being manipulated. So the fader labelled "Logic" will move the software playback 1-2 out of the Main LR out, but the fader labelled "Click" will move software playback 3 out of a seperate center channel output.

                This took a while to figure out

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                1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-12-03 15:18:37.643Z

                  Really impressive stuff!

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                    AlexanderW @AlexanderW
                      2021-12-03 15:31:18.744Z

                      Thank you for sharing this. It looks impressive and very useful. I will have a deep dive into this as soon as I have some time inbetween the next projects to come.

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