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Re: BCR and transport control
2009-04-16 by rpcfender
sorry about the lack of reply, but I thought that someone would be more knowledgeable about FL.
There are standard Midi messages for 'Play', 'Stop", 'Continue' (it fact there are a couple of ways to do it)
Here is a good Midi site to explain them
http://www.somascape.org/midi/tech/spec.html
You should look at the System Real Time Messages for single byte message (the easiest)
If you need a more sophisticated way (ie harder) you should use MIDI Machine Control (MMC) Commands
Use gloabal Id of $7F
Play = $F0 $7F $7F $06 $02 $F7
Stop = $F0 $7F $7F $06 $01 $F7
All is possible with the BCR/BCF
I don't know if FL reacts to System Real Time or MMC, but a simple test for System Real Time is Start = $FA and Stop = $FC
Uses Mark's editor for the Buttons on the lower right side, 51 and 52, and use the Learn setting and just have $FA in the message
Hope this helps
Royce
> I asked this a few days ago in relation to FL Studio, but I didn't get any replies and now my question is a broader one anyway.
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> I can control SONAR's transport with an excellent control surface written by a SONAR User, but it requires a .dll. I can also control it using ACT, but in this particular case I want to use a standard "all controls" BCR2000 preset. Is it possible to program the 4 User buttons as standard transport controls, if there is such a thing?
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> I ask because I want to use a preset to control a plug-in that responds to CC messages, but I also want to control the transport without switching presets.
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> Thanks-
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> -Susan
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