All Notes Off switch and Panic switch
Posted: 10 May 2012 03:31
Hello everyone! Been lurking here for while and reading as much as I can on Lemur - but still so many questions...
I'm working on a light control panel that sends Midi note on messages to the light controllers to turn lights on. The velocity determines how bright. So far I have 8 faders set up with an overall Master level control. it's working good. However, I would like to put a Blackout button on the control surface. All the faders are outputting data on midi 0, ch 1. Unfortunately I don't believe the Midi dimmer packs are very sophisticated or what real capabilities they have - there is no midi data documentation available for them, and the manufacturer has pleaded ignorance since the day these came on the market. So, I don't know if it would respond to an all Notes Off message. I thougt about just sending Note On with a velocity of 0, but occasionally the controllers get glitched and seem to receive notes outside the required range that causes internal patterns to start cycling...quite irritating.
There are three ways that I can think of off-hand that should be able to do this;
- send a midi All Notes Off command. I have not been able to figure out how this should be done. I would think a short script would do it. I was looking at the Create Custom Midi script but it seems that it only addresses one pitch at a time.
- the other way would be to have a script that sends individual Note Off commands to each note. Again this looks like it could be done with a script - but I am clueless how to do this.
- another option would possibly be a midi PANIC switch/function ...I believe this just sends a Not Off and zeros all controller data. Is there a function like this already in the Lemur library? I was lookiing thru the downloads and didn't see anything.
Any help would be appreciated!
Dave
I'm working on a light control panel that sends Midi note on messages to the light controllers to turn lights on. The velocity determines how bright. So far I have 8 faders set up with an overall Master level control. it's working good. However, I would like to put a Blackout button on the control surface. All the faders are outputting data on midi 0, ch 1. Unfortunately I don't believe the Midi dimmer packs are very sophisticated or what real capabilities they have - there is no midi data documentation available for them, and the manufacturer has pleaded ignorance since the day these came on the market. So, I don't know if it would respond to an all Notes Off message. I thougt about just sending Note On with a velocity of 0, but occasionally the controllers get glitched and seem to receive notes outside the required range that causes internal patterns to start cycling...quite irritating.
There are three ways that I can think of off-hand that should be able to do this;
- send a midi All Notes Off command. I have not been able to figure out how this should be done. I would think a short script would do it. I was looking at the Create Custom Midi script but it seems that it only addresses one pitch at a time.
- the other way would be to have a script that sends individual Note Off commands to each note. Again this looks like it could be done with a script - but I am clueless how to do this.
- another option would possibly be a midi PANIC switch/function ...I believe this just sends a Not Off and zeros all controller data. Is there a function like this already in the Lemur library? I was lookiing thru the downloads and didn't see anything.
Any help would be appreciated!
Dave