absolutebeginnerI’m here again… 🙁
I’ve made a small step ahead, now I’ve set up the Gmce so that some signal passes through and moves only some track’s pan sliders on Podium screen…but I can’t make it to do anything else.
The Gmce developers showed me how to assign every hardware slider to the software one, but the changes I do in Gmce setup don’t affect Podium.
The main thing I wish to do is assign my hardware buttons to the track’s Solo-Mute sliders…according Gmce developers I should push those buttons and see which CC# and channel numbers appear on Gmce, and set those values. The CC# number should identify the kind of hardware control (first slider, second slider, first button, etc.). But nothing happens.
Should I do anything else in Podium?
absolutebeginnerYes, they’re on the right side, under the SMR buttons
absolutebeginnerThe Podium guide, page 171, says that “when a control surface is present, the mixer view menu has a Follow control surface option”.
In fact, the follow control surface is there and it’s ticked on. So it seems that Podium sees the control surface, it understands it’s a mackie, but the sliders and knobs of the Podium mixer are not affected.
GMCE is a software emulation of the mack, but I think that, if Podium sees it, it sees that it’s a mack.
In my Edirol PCR800 keyboard I have 16 preset “control maps” and I tried them all to check if some are “more mack” than others but it’s useless…anyway it shouldn’t make a difference, as the signal passes through the emulator before going to Podium…
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absolutebeginnerThanks for your answer!
Yes, I use separate Midi Ins and Outs for the keyboard notes (Midi section in Podium) and the control surface (Control surface window), as Zynewave told me before.
I too don’t know exactly why I have to use Midi Yoke, it’s suggested by the guide of the Mackie emulator. Perhaps the Genmce Mackie emulator cannot send midi signals directly to the Daw.
The idea you gave me is that perhaps my control surface doesn’t trasmit Midi signals on every channel, but only on a specific channel.
I’ll try to check that.
absolutebeginnerNo way… 😕
Now the Midi chain is:
Genmce Midi In Port => Edirol PCR1 (my midi keyboard controller PCR800)
Genmce Midi Out Port => Out to Midi Yoke 6 (as suggested by Genmce guide)
Genmce Feedback (DAW MCU Out port) => In from midi Yoke 7 (as suggested…etc)
Podium Control surfaces window:
Midi input interface: In from Midi Yoke 6
Midi output interface: Out to midi Yoke 7
Now the midi signal should go through keyboard, Genmce (the mackie emulator), Midi Yoke (the software patch bay) and Podium, but it doesn’t work.
If I move a slider or a knob in the controller, the midi meter in the lower right screen of Podium flashes, so they send some midi to Podium…but nothing in the right place (volume sliders, mute/solo, etc.)
absolutebeginnerThanks!
I’ll try to do that.