Old 11-05-2019, 09:15 PM   #1
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Default Midi controller via Teensy microcontroller

Ok. So ive made a few MIDI devices with the Teensy microcontroller. (It's pretty damn easy actually). But here's my maybestupid question:

Say I want to do Transport. I can easily set my teensy code to habe the Play button send, say, a MIDI note on. And then go into reaper and have it learn that MIDI message for the play button.
My question is... How can I do this without MIDI learn?
I guess I'm asking what is the default data needed for that play button (or any other parameters like drop marker, etc.)

Is there a list anywhere?
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Old 11-05-2019, 11:13 PM   #2
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There in fact is not really a "Default".

In Reaper, the communication with Control Surface devices is handled by the "Control Surface Mode" setting (Preference -> Control/OSC/Web -> Add).

Here you can select as well built-in modes as modes provided by Reaper extensions (such as "CSI", which is discussed in this subforum).

Many of these Modes (can) use (variants of) the Midi-alike "MC" ("Mackie") protocol.

Hence "MCI" is a kind of "Standard", that is supported by many DAWs. Hence it might sense to adhere to that protocol with the device you are about to create.

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Old 11-06-2019, 10:46 AM   #3
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Thanks. That makes sense.I will investigate that.
Really I'm just looking for the easiest way to control transport and maybe a few other things. I'm not looking to make a full fledged controller (I'll leave that for much smarter people than me).
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Old 11-07-2019, 08:21 AM   #4
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..its called Mackie Control Protocol BTW. MCP. Originally based on the Logic protocol.
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I'm not looking to make a full fledged controller (I'll leave that for much smarter people than me).
Nonetheless it makes sense to implement the partial functionality you might have in mind, compatible with some "standard" (which can be MCP).

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Old 11-11-2019, 05:57 PM   #6
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Im going to take a hard look at the MCP. I fear most, if not all, of it is beyond my very meager C++ skills.
However,it never hurts to look...and maybe even get sucked into it. Lol
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Im going to take a hard look at the MCP. I fear most, if not all, of it is beyond my very meager C++ skills.
However,it never hurts to look...and maybe even get sucked into it. Lol
There's a link to code for an MCU controller in this post: https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/42477...fader-panel#24
The Zeus-DPC.ino sketch contains code for handling MCU messages, perhaps this can be of use to you. I abandoned this approach in favour of OSC.
For transport functions you could just use MIDI Machine Control.
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Thanks Gerrit. I will definitely take a look at that.
Yeah, I figured I could just use MMC for transport. That seems easy and simple.
But I would like to be able to arm tracks, etc...
So I'll look more into MCU.
I suppose I could do everything I want to do using OSC,but I know even less about doing it that way. Lol
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