Bank Selection Query

MIDIbox NG
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Hi all!

I’ve been planning a Midi Controller for quite some time now and with the release of the NG platform I figured it would be a better time than any. However, before I start piecing components together I was hoping to get some things cleared up before I get on my way.

 

I have looked over the documentation regarding ‘Banks’ and do have a fair idea of its implementation however there is some functionality I would like to confirm. So far, I understand that hardware elements will have ‘hw_id’'s which then can be banked to X amount of ‘id’ elements if there are X amount of Bank buttons to switch between.

 

I was wondering if it is at all possible to have seperate ‘Bank Zones’ (sorry for a lack of a better title) which have their own independent Bank Select buttons and have no effect on any of the other Bank Zones.

 

e.g.

 

Take a control surface that has the following control elements:

 

  • 8 Encoders (A)

  • 8 Momentary Buttons (A)

  • 4 Bank Select  Buttons (A)

 

 

  • 16 Momentary Buttons (B)

  • 4 Bank Select Buttons (B)

 

Is the following functionality possible?:

 

  • ‘Bank Select (A)’ buttons will switch the [8 Encoders] & [8 Mom Buttons] between 4 banks

  • ‘Bank Select (B)’ buttons will switch the [16 Mom Buttons] between 4 banks

  • Switching between banks in either Zone A/B will not affect the state/bank of the other zones.

 

 

Excited to get things under way. Any help appreciated!

 

Regards,

Andrew

 

 

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Hi Andrew,

 

independent bank zones could be created with conditional events, see also this example: http://svnmios.midibox.org/filedetails.php?repname=svn.mios32&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fapps%2Fcontrollers%2Fmidibox_ng_v1%2Fcfg%2Ftests%2Fconev_3.ngc

 

An alternative approach would be the usage of a .NGR script: http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_ng_manual_ngr.html

I’m planning to add an “enable_event” and “disable_event” command which allows to control the state of EVENTs like the bank feature is doing, but with the possibility to maintain each EVENT separately.

 

Best Regards, Thorsten.

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TK replied during writing…

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Thanks for the response guys!

 

It looks like the conditional events will suit my needs nicely. 

 

Can’t believe I missed it but I’m slowly soaking it all in. Great stuff!