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MIDI Building Block To Send User Specified MIDI message?
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Wed Aug 10, 2016 12:13 pm •
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dabo
Joined: 19 Feb 2014
Posts: 51
Location: Los Angeles
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Ken,
First, thanks for such an astonishingly helpful utility!
It's probably saved me hundreds of hours of computer manipulation time and prevented a career-ending carpal tunnel meltdown.
A building block that sends a user-specified MIDI message would be very useful. Space delimited hexadecimal entry.
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Sun Jan 01, 2017 4:35 pm •
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jrchappell
Joined: 09 May 2014
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SysEx would be very handy for me as well. I am trying to get transport messages as an input to work. It looks like SysEx is how that message is sent.
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Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:09 am •
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Winfried
Joined: 15 Jan 2017
Posts: 2
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Yes, a custom MIDI message building block would by very welcome. I have a control panel with a character display. The text in the display can be set with MIDI messages.
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Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:11 pm •
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Ken
Developer
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 4052
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There have also been other comments and discussions about adding raw SysEx messages, and it remains something that I am interested in adding to ControllerMate.
One thing that would be helpful is suggestions for devices or other software that handle SysEx messages. Real-world examples of how these are used would be helpful in the development and testing process.
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Ken
www.orderedbytes.com - www.controllermate.com
ControllerMate -- Programming controllers for Mac OS X since 2005.
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Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:16 pm •
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dabo
Joined: 19 Feb 2014
Posts: 51
Location: Los Angeles
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The idea presented in my original post had only tangential relation to Sysex.
I'm talking about a building block that would send a MIDI command as entered into the block by the user as a hexadecimal string.
If a user wanted to send a Sysex command, this sort of building block would be applicable.
Sysex is of it's nature too complex to implement in any comprehensive way in ControllerMate because every MIDI manufacturer, being at liberty to decide what to put between the Sysex header byte and the end-Sysex byte, uses it differently. Thus, "system exclusive" messages, as the nomenclature suggests, are almost always specific to the piece of gear being targeted by the message. Best to leave it to the user to sort out what the message needs to be. There are MIDI implementation documents for any gear that receives/sends Sysex commands. Users that want to send Sysex can reference these to find the hex strings they would need.
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Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:38 pm •
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Ken
Developer
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 4052
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| dabo wrote: | | Sysex is of it's nature too complex to implement in any comprehensive way in ControllerMate because every MIDI manufacturer, being at liberty to decide what to put between the Sysex header byte and the end-Sysex byte, uses it differently. |
Yup, that's why it isn't in ControllerMate already. 
For SysEx, the general idea is to add hexadecimal entry UI to ControllerMate and automatically wrap it between the SysEx start/end bytes. Having just a general-purpose hex editor that leaves the entire message in the hands of the user would probably work fine as well. I can't imagine too many people who don't know how to construct a MIDI message would find much use for the feature.
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Ken
www.orderedbytes.com - www.controllermate.com
ControllerMate -- Programming controllers for Mac OS X since 2005.
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Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:55 am •
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dabo
Joined: 19 Feb 2014
Posts: 51
Location: Los Angeles
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There are many users who do know how to construct a MIDI hex message. This sort of feature is what is requested in threads by:
public state
zmix
And Winfried's response earlier in this thread expresses a desire for it.
I know of many audio and music professionals that would find this feature useful.
MIDI is also used as a show control protocol for stage lighting, etc.
I would bet that any MIDI user that has gone deep enough to need ControllerMate is enough of a nerd to figure out the hex string they need to send.
Anyway, it was just a thought...
ControllerMate is the center of my workflow automation and gives me a competitive edge in my field.
Thanks
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Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:35 am •
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Ken
Developer
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 4052
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| dabo wrote: | | ControllerMate is the center of my workflow automation and gives me a competitive edge in my field. |
Thanks, that's nice to hear.
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Ken
www.orderedbytes.com - www.controllermate.com
ControllerMate -- Programming controllers for Mac OS X since 2005.
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