generic midi control

clipstick wrote on 7/12/2004, 9:58 AM
good evening dear forum,

i tried to setup my midi-controllers ("regelwerk" and "drehbank" by doepfer) to control the faders of video and audio events in vegas 5.0b.

for the audio section everything is working fine but the video faders do not respond, even when the midi-learnig setup did manage well.

do the video faders need another type of midi-message(some special sysex command) to get controllable ??

thx in advance

best

clipstick

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Spot|DSE wrote on 7/12/2004, 10:02 AM
Do those controllers use MMC? Or MIDI information to go back and forth with info? I don't know those two devices and couldn't find a page in English on them, so can't tell.
Vegas uses MIDI information, not MMC to transmit instructions. But there is a hack/workaround for MMC, I'm just not aware of how to use it. Can you post additional info about your controllers?
clipstick wrote on 7/12/2004, 10:07 AM
more about these two devices @ www.doepfer.de ---> english info there too

clipstick wrote on 7/12/2004, 10:26 AM
found this about the "regelwerk"-controller :

"All standard MIDI messages or free programmable MIDI strings up to 30 Bytes can be assigned to the faders (e.g. Sys Ex strings), the fader controlled byte can be set anywhere within the string"

but how do i know which messages vegas needs ??? there stand nothing in the manual and i didnt found anything in the web ....


thx once more for wasting ur time ;-)
thankins wrote on 7/12/2004, 11:03 AM
You need to toggle between Audio and Video modes in order to drive video tracks with your external hardware.

Under Options->Preferences->External Control and Automation open your Generic Control template and navigate to View Function Group->Assign.

Notice that on this page there are "Set Audio Mode" and "Set Video Mode" commands. Assign a hardware button to each of these commands to allow you to toggle between Audio and Video modes.

If I understand your question correctly, this should solve your problem.
clipstick wrote on 7/12/2004, 11:10 AM
....HELL YEAH....

:-)

falling down to my knees and pray for you .....


its so simple.. but why the manual doesnt tell about this ??

btw.. i am a really happy nerd now .


best