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Dell ·
Greetings!
As I plan to design a loudspeaker management processor for sound reinforcement purposes, I was wondering if the Behringer BCR 2000 could be used with Synthmaker's knobs as means of hardware control oppose using a mouse and keyboard.
Has anyone intergrated synthmaker's knobs using a stand alone midi controller?
philter5 ·
i use the bcr and i have had no problem with using it in synthmaker, no matter if exe or plugin. but what exactly would you need them for? unfortunately i don´t get your description right 😕
Dell ·
I am designing a processor for my sound reinforcement sound system. It will consist of crossovers, para-metric equalisers, graphic equalisers in addition to limiters.
What I am hoping the Behringer BCR 2000 will do is give me the ability to adjust the parameters as if I were using a mouse and keyboard.
oddson ·
I've noticed that one of the big uses of SynthMaker in the FL community is to build dashboards for MIDI hardware. So I'd say it's more than feasible for you to do the same with a stand-alone EXE.
Are you building a hardware device complete with digital control from scratch or are you using off-the-shelf hardware?
Are you familiar with HyperSID from the S|M examples page?
Dell ·
Yes. This design will be operating on a computer solely designed for the stand-alone exe or vst using a live host. I am uncertain which method would offer greater efficiency from a CPU standpoint. I may need to test a few modules to confirm.
I’ve tested the prototype plug-ins (using a host) from 10 – 18 continuous ( 96 kHz /24-bit ) for the past year so catastrophic failure is the least of my worries.
I am not familiar with Hypersid, thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will need to investigate further on if it would be helpful for my project. 🙂
oddson ·
Dell wrote: Yes. This design will be operating on a computer solely designed for the stand-alone exe or vst using a live host.
Sorry to be daft... is the processor you're making a hardware device?
If it's not than ignore most of what I was saying except the part that says it's more than possible to integrate MIDI control hardware with SynthMaker controls.
The stock controls have MIDI CC enable and number assign fields in their properties panels.
Other than that you just have to make sure there is a nameless MIDI transmitter at the top-most layer of your OSM and they should work without further effort.
About the only other thing you need to figure out is how to give your user the ability to assign MIDI CC to specific controls.
There are a few 'MIDI learn' schemes on the forum that may be of interest here... I've not reviewed them lately so I can't say whether there are problems with any of these.
MIDI Learn and Catchup for Controls [old link] Readout knob with MIDI learn GUI Ad GUI For Easy Link&Midi Learn&Monitor New Midi Learn Panel. enhanced knob with full midi control midi learn (this one has my early efforts on the topic)
Dell ·
Cheers for the links oddson!
The prototype will use a computer then within a year, I will design a stand alone hardware version. I would estimate 1 year is enough to confirm the prototype will offer everything I require before buying pc boards. 🙂
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