iRig Blueboard muting and unmuting tracks in Auria

Here is something to try (as per last post). Assuming the following:

- MidiBridge Scene Channel is set to 16 (Preferences>Options)
- BlueBoard in controller mode, buttons 1-4 set to controllers 000-003
- Footswitch in EXT1, controller 010 (calibrated to send 7F when pressed)
- Expression pedal in EXT2, controller 021 (calibrated to send 00 to 7F)
- BlueBoard is connected and routed to MidiBridge output port (right) in MidiBridge
- Auria has MidiBridge selected as Remote Control (HUI mode) as before.

You will need two separate scenes. I am going to assume you will use scenes 000 and 001 in MidiBridge.

Touch BlueBoard 'beaker', select Stream Byter and paste in the following:

# BlueBoard>Auria, steve, scene 0
X1-F = XX +B # remove BB excess

# EXT1 010 switch to scene 001
B0 0A 7F = CF 01 +C

# EXT2 021 > Fader 1
B0 15 = 90 00 7F +C
B0 15 = B0 0F 00 +D50 +C
B0 15 = B0 2F 40 +D50 +C
B0 15 = B0 00 +D50 +C
B0 15 = B0 20 00 +D50 +C

# Toggle Mute
# BUT1-4, CC 000-003
B0 = 90 00 7F +C
B0 = XX 0F X2 +C +D50
B0 = XX 2F 42 +C +D50

Press 'Install Rules', Done & Done and then hold down Scene 000 in the Scene Panel, name it 'Mute+Fader1' and press Save

Return to the Stream Byter, remove current rules and replace with:

# BlueBoard>Auria, steve, scene 1
X1-F = XX +B # remove BB excess

# EXT1 010 switch to scene 000
B0 0A 7F = CF 00 +C

# EXT2 021 > Fader 1
B0 15 = 90 00 7F +C
B0 15 = B0 0F 01 +D50 +C
B0 15 = B0 2F 40 +D50 +C
B0 15 = B0 01 +D50 +C
B0 15 = B0 21 00 +D50 +C

# Toggle Solo
# BUT1-4, CC 000-003
B0 = 90 00 7F +C
B0 = XX 0F X2 +C +D50
B0 = XX 2F 43 +C +D50

Save this into scene 001 in Scene Panel.

Now, when you hit the foot switch you should see the Scenes change in MidiBridge's Scene Panel as you do so. Switch over to Auria and see if the buttons mute (or solo) and the footpedal controls fader 1 (or 2). Hit the EXT footswitch and buttons control Solo (or mute) and fader 2 (or 1).

The bolded numbers in the fader rules are what you change to access faders 3-8 (change from 0 to 2,3,4,5,6,7).

I am not blocking the original BlueBoard controller events since there is some overlap between them and the HUI events. I think Auria will ignore them since they are not within a HUI packet, but if it's doing strange things then maybe not.

Best of luck!

Regards, Nic.

Hi Nic,

Had a go with this, the mute and bank switch worked as planned. The volume control didn't function and the solo worked on subgroups 4-8. Before you put any more time into this, I may be having (yet another) slight tweak, depending on tonights rehearsal. Cheers Steve

Hi steve,

Let me digest/experiment and get back to you on that. I'll revert over the next few days.

Regards, Nic.

Hi steve,

Apologies for the delay.

I've looked into your soloing question (button press solos specific track while un-soloing the others) and the problem here is that solo seems to be a toggle only affair which makes things quite difficult since we need to have if/else logic to do this which the Stream Byter doesn't have. It might be possible with many scenes covering all possibilities but this would be cumbersome and prone to failure, so I am going to have to put this in the 'too hard' basket. Sorry about that - you're going to be forced to press two switches to solo one and unsolo the other.

Mute all is sort of possible but again we're subject to the toggle issue, but since you just want one button to mute/unmute all with no other specific mutes, this is just a case of sending multiple mutes on the tracks on one go. Thus I think this can be done.

Operating patches in JamUp is done by converting the button press events to program changes.

To summarise, I can provide 2 sets of rules for you that almost do what you want, but could you let me know the following:

- which Auria tracks do you need muted/unmuted with the mute all switch? 1-4 (8)?
- which program changes do you want sent to JamUp in scene1 for the 4 buttons? 1-4?

I think those are the only things I would need to create the two rulesets for you.

Regards, Nic.


 

Hi steve,

OK, that simplifies things a bit.

This is what I think you need for your two scenes, assuming that the BlueBoard configuration of controller numbers is the same as before.

# BlueBoard>Auria, steve, scene 0
X1-F = XX +B # remove BB excess

# EXT1 010 switch to scene 001
B0 0A 7F = CF 01 +C

# Toggle Solo
# BUT1-4, CC 000-003
B0 = 90 00 7F +C
B0 = XX 0F X2 +C +D50
B0 = XX 2F 43 +C +D50

and your scene 1:

# BlueBoard>Auria, steve, scene 1
X1-F = XX +B # remove BB excess

# EXT1 010 switch to scene 000
B0 0A 7F = CF 00 +C

Here, you're just intercepting the BlueBoard to switch scenes with the EXT1 switch and only in scene 0 do you toggle solo Auria track 1-4 using buttons 1-4. Everything else passes unchanged.

I think that should do it. It's obviously much simpler than previous sets!

Regards, Nic.

Hi Nic, just to report back, I couldn't get EXT1 to switch scenes. I've assigned the correct CC number in the blueboard app, and its working there, but auria isn't seeing anything. JamUp is working as it should too, cheers