How to set up Logic Pro and bidirectional MIDI control

[hbissett]

I'm quite new to both Lemur AND Logic, and I spent an awful long time searching to find more information about how to set up bidirectional MIDI. Official support for Lemur seems to be both outdated, and spread out across the Jazzmutant and Liine websites. Looked through the official forums, other websites and their forums.

I finally found some good reference for doing this, which actually isn't for Lemur, but taught me enough about Logic's MIDI environment and the necessary objects you can use to get MIDI data coming OUT of Logic and affecting your Lemur controls. For example, I wanted to have all my track volume faders representing exactly what was happening in Logic, even if I used the mouse, or recorded in some volume automation.

Check this link out:

http://www.osculator.net/doc/tutorial:2 ... the_iphone

Obviously a couple of things are different (like it's about OSC), but it's easy enough for a beginner to follow along and adapt as needed. I got it working straight off the bat.

I really think Liine ought to produce some official guides or videos for setting up different DAWs like this. I think this is a pretty typical request. The next thing I'm trying to find out is how to 'Bang' fader MIDI values with a button or something, so that when you load a Logic project you can have your Lemur faders snap to the correct values for the project if they have changed since. Otherwise you have to manually 'catch' the set volume in Lemur for each track, that's just stupid.

If anyone has any info on this, please let me know!

[Macciza]

Hi
it seems strange that as a novice user of both products that you would not simply ask somewhere and get informed before posting your own recommendations . ..
I think your link is somewhat off track - as it regards a convoluted OSC remapping etc, even if it does mention some basic Logic environment stuff . .

Have you looked at any of the Logic stuff or Generic Mackie implementations around? These are quite full-featured implementation ready-made . . .
They will mostly track what is happening in your DAW so you don't need to 'bang' anything or do anything in the environment . . . .

I would suggest looking through the User Library, checking out some patches, maybe asking here how Logic users are doing things etc . . .