Old transport control chestnut

bianca
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Old transport control chestnut Feb 27, 2018 18:33:23 GMT

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Post by bianca on Feb 27, 2018 18:33:23 GMT

The old chestnut

If I connect music studio app to midifire and press the play button in the dynamic tempo module this will toggle play (from start) and stop in music studio

The manual to the Alexis io dock tells me that

f you are using a single-button footswitch, pressing the footswitch for the first time sends a data value of 127 for CC
#14 over Channel 1. Pressing the footswitch for the second time sends a data value of 0 for CC #14 over Channel 1.

How can I tell MidiFire that if it receives a data value of 127 etc it should press the play button on the dynamic tempo module and again if it receives 0?

or any other clever way of sending midi beat clock start/stop messages in response to the iodock messages.

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Old transport control chestnut Feb 28, 2018 8:46:08 GMT

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Post by nic on Feb 28, 2018 8:46:08 GMT

Hi bianca ,

I think you can use MidiFire's Remote Control stuff for this out of the box if that is the case:

- Press 'Setup' then 'Remote Control'
- Select 'Dynamic Clock - Start/Stop' (or could be 'Dynamic Clock - Bypass) in the list (make sure the is a Dynamic Clock on the canvas)
- Press 'Learn' at bottom
- Press the physical switch connected to Alesis - you should see it set the event
- Press 'Learn' to disengage learning

I think the transport will now toggle between start/stop as you press the button successively.

If not, then we can probably add some Stream Byter code to make it behave properly.

Regards, Nic.

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Old transport control chestnut Mar 1, 2018 10:27:19 GMT

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Post by bianca on Mar 1, 2018 10:27:19 GMT

Thanks for the reply

Shame we will never know if it would have worked. Some iOS update has broken the ability to work my iodock via the 30 pin to lightning adapter and MidiFire won’t work on any device that has a 30pin connection.

The joys of Apple I guess.

nic Soapbox Supremo Troublemaker Press any key to continue Posts: 2,011	Old transport control chestnut Mar 1, 2018 10:40:24 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by nic on Mar 1, 2018 10:40:24 GMT Why won't midifire work on a 30 pin device? What happens? I run it on an iPod touch 4g running iOS 6 without problems.

bianca MidiFire Beta Posts: 14	Old transport control chestnut Mar 2, 2018 9:23:57 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by bianca on Mar 2, 2018 9:23:57 GMT Maybe I pressed the wrong button or something but I’m sure I got a message pop up to tell me it needed ios10. Will have another go, fingers crossed.

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Old transport control chestnut Mar 3, 2018 11:51:17 GMT via Tapatalk 9alex likes this

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Post by 9alex on Mar 3, 2018 11:51:17 GMT

Mar 2, 2018 9:23:57 GMT bianca said:

Maybe I pressed the wrong button or something but I’m sure I got a message pop up to tell me it needed ios10. Will have another go, fingers crossed.

Hi
I have the alesis io dock with 30 to lightning adapter. I am updated to IOS 11 and this works beautifully. From time to time i recieve a message it’s incompatible but just undock it and dock it again. After one or two tries it will work.

Old transport control chestnut

Post by bianca on Feb 27, 2018 18:33:23 GMT

Post by nic on Feb 28, 2018 8:46:08 GMT

Post by bianca on Mar 1, 2018 10:27:19 GMT

Post by nic on Mar 1, 2018 10:40:24 GMT

Post by bianca on Mar 2, 2018 9:23:57 GMT

Post by 9alex on Mar 3, 2018 11:51:17 GMT