MIDI Kinetics Forum

hi!

i'm working on a Cubase generic remote / mackie control hybrid controller now for some days in my spare time... i'm trying to do something that looks somewhat pretty, so i have some questions regarding the SurfaceLCD module.

is there a way to customize SurfaceLCD's look a bit deeper than just setting the font size? i checked the attributes with a getattributes monitor, but it seems like there's no way to dig in further... i thought, there could still be a way to send 'track name' data to text objects, so it could be configurable...

Theoritically you CAN send track names data to text object - if you manage to "decode" the sysex data that are sent from Cubase....
See the problem is not sending them to the text objects, that's the easy part - the problem is to correctly "retrieve" them (or rather "decode" them) from your DAW - something that the LCDdisplay does out of the box. And then you also got all sorts of parameter names and values to think of, not to mention the "assignment" LCD and the "timecode" LCD.
I really wouldnt think it is worth the trouble and time to figure out all this. I believe if all the other elements of your "surface" look pleasing to you and have your "aesthetic" approval the LCDdisplay's lack of visual customisation will look a minor detail. Of course that's only my humble personal opinion!

Is there any way to pass stuff out of the LCD to text objects?

Softcore wrote:Theoritically you CAN send track names data to text object - if you manage to "decode" the sysex data that are sent from Cubase....

yeah... this is the answer i was afraid of to see.