Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Nice!!!! Glad to hear you were able to make it work. Thanks for sharing the details of your solution; I share in your joy at fashioning this solution. Perhaps it will inspire others to use remote control for things like this and other performance techniques.
Steve



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "jtoxon" <nativewit@...> wrote:
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> Hi Steve,
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> I managed in the end to get the control freak to control the grid record knobs. It works -almost- perfectly. . .
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> I set each fader to do the following each time its value changed:-
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> 1. - Press corresponding trigger button
> 2. - dial encoder back down to zero
> 3. - dial encoder back up again by an amount equal to the fader value (0-127).
> 
> In between 1. and 2. I put some blank bytes to give the mp7 time to respond to the trigger button press. It works fine when seq is stopped, but once playing it occasionally updates the previous grid value as well as the new one. It needs a tiny bit more delay time before the encoder movements. To get round this I programmed the button above each slider to do the following:-
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> Button press:- press trigger button
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> Button release:-  Dial encoder down, Dial encoder up again to fader value.
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> The delay between pressing and releasing the button is enough for the mp7 to respond correctly. You can press them as quick as you like and it works fine, setting the grid value to its corresponding fader value. You can also use this to copy values to other bars!
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> I also set up one of the other function buttons to toggle between "Loop Current Bar" and "Loop Off" which is useful. 
> 
> Thanks for the idea about zeroing encoders, I prob wouldn't have been able to do it without that, so I'm very grateful! 
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> Jim
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