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Rednroll wrote on 4/19/2004, 1:31 PM
I just commented on this in another post. I'm assuming you'll have the same limitation on the 02R, especially with the Protools setup. I think you recommended "Midi Ox" to me in another post, where I was asking about this. This was the reason, I was asking because I was having some problems getting certain things to work. Seeing the messages being sent from the 03D in midi ox cleared up my confusion. I would recommend downloading that and trying the different midi remote presets on your 02R, so you can see what's going on.

Here's from my other post:

I've been trying it out with my 03D for awhile now. A few things to note, about the 03D, because these are the problems I ran into. I'm assuming you're going to use the "midi remote" feature on the 03D. I setup midi ox, to monitor the messages being sent from the 03D, and it has some limitations. I found you'll want to either use the "Protools" default page or the "General Midi" preset page. The bad thing about the "Protools" page is that you only have use of 8 of the 16 faders on the 03D. Faders 9-16, don't send out any midi CC messages when using that page. The good thing is that you have control over fader position, mutes, and pans. Using the "General midi" preset, you can use all 16 faders and their pans, and a couple sends for each fader. The bad thing is that the mutes, then don't send any midi CC messages. Another point on the Protools page, is that you can't do a punch-in scenario using the transport buttons on the 03D, unless you redefine the buttons in Vegas. In other words, if you hit PLAY, followed by RECORD, Vegas will not do a punch-in, because the RECORD button does not send out any midi CC messages. You must hit "STOP" and then "RECORD" for the record button to send out a midi CC message. My work around was to assign the "Stop" button as Record in Vegas, and the "Record" button as Stop, and this allowed me to do a punch-in scenario....so now, I have to tell myself that Stop is Record and Record is Stop.

I also think the master fader doesn't send anything out in the Protools setup either. I went to Yamaha's website to see if there was a possible firmware update for the 03D and didn't find anything. You might have better luck with the 02R, since the 03D was discontinued.