Using Led on knobs to display meter and volume status

On a bcr2000 you have encoders (knobs) that shows Led when you move them. In Ableton Live 6, I have assigned one knob to control the volume of a track, but I also use Blue Cat Peak Meter VST on that track to show the movements of the volume signal (like a dj mixer). I have assigned the same bcr's CC# to both the volume control and the out meter(blue cat). That's fine except that when you move the knob to raise the volume Ableton assigns the value of the meter to the volume, which translates to sometimes volume jumps, which I want to avoid.

The VST has another button called bypass (can also be assigned a midi or key stroke). If bypass is on, the the VST is disable and it doesn't send midi info to the volume track. What I want to do is when I move up or down the knob, I want the bypass to be ON and as soon as I release it, OFF. This probably entails to have a seperate midi message for the bypass and the meter, but the bypass can't follow the same behavior as the meter or volume midi CC#.I've tried a few things, but my knowlledge with MT is very limited. I've scanned the forum for something similar and I didn'f find anything.

By the way I'm using MT Pro.

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Can somebody please tell me if what I'm looking for is possible?

Thanks!

Hi Drob,

if I understand correctly, you want to do the following (in technical terms):

- in normal mode, bypass is disabled
- when you change the volume, before the first volume CC message goes through, enable bypass
- then pass through the volume messages
- when finished changing the volume, disable bypass again

If this is what you want to do, I can only think of using MT Pro's timers for that (in pseudo code):
Do you understand the principle?

In MT, use e.g. "ga" for the flag. Also, because you cannot specify multiple OUT actions per translator entry, create 3 translator entries, each having the volume message as incoming trigger. Each entry must have the "stop processing" flag disabled.

See this post where this technique is used:
http://www.bome.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3465#3465

Let us know if that works out...

Regards,
Florian

Thanks for your reply.

I'm not familiar with all of this programming code. I'm trying to understand how it works, but It's not working for me.

I've loaded up the template your reference (note retrigger key repeat), but I get an error message when loading up:


Error while loading preset "Note Retrigger", Translator "note 1: pass through":
Outgoing Action corrupt or not supported: Tim0
Also there are three presets, which one is it note rettriger? If so, am I suppose to change the rules for the three presets. Maybe the fact that I want to use a key stroke (j) to activate on or off the "bypass" is causing me additional trouble?

Thanks for your time and looking forward to your response.

Ok, I think I got it. The only problem is that the midi command sent by the VST is fraction of a second quicker than MT command to bypass, which results in volume jumps again, but less noticable. Here is my preset:

• [Project]
  Version=1
  [Preset.0]
  Name=Note Retrigger
  Active=1
  Name0=note 1: pass through
  Incoming0=MID1B046oo
  Outgoing0=Tim0000Cnote 1 timer000103840064
  Options0=Actv01Stop00OutO00StMa00000001if(ga==0)ga=1
  Name1=note 1: (re)start timer
  Incoming1=MID1B046oo
  Outgoing1=MID1B01Fqq
  Options1=Actv01Stop00OutO00StMa00000001ga=0
  Name2=note 1: send Note Off
  Incoming2=Tim0TimT000Cnote 1 timer
  Outgoing2=MID1B01Fpp
  Options2=Actv01Stop00OutO00StMa00000001ga=1
  Name3=note 1: pass through
  Incoming3=MID1B046oo
  Outgoing3=MID1B046oo
  Options3=Actv01Stop00OutO00
  [Preset.1]
  Name=Key Repeat
  Active=0
  Name0=Note off to key H up
  Incoming0=MID190pp00
  Outgoing0=KAM12100KSQ10001048
  Options0=Actv01Stop01OutO00
  Name1=Note on to key H down
  Incoming1=MID190ppqq
  Outgoing1=KAM11100KSQ10001048
  Options1=Actv01Stop01OutO00

Is this what you had in mind or have I done something wrong.

Thanks

Hi,

OK, I can see how you want to do it. I've cleaned it a little bit:
You can download it here:
http://www.bome.com/midi/translator/sol ... ingCC.bmtp

Btw, you used parameters pp and qq for sending the bypass command. Since pp and qq aren't referred to anywhere else, they are 00. Probably you need to use 7F and 00 or similar to enable /disable bypass.

Regards,
Florian