Question to those familiar with Midi Designer

Verchrona

Hello, I am nearly done with a Layout for the Moog Sub Phatty. I've gotten most of the controls to respond to the outgoing CC's from the editor. But I haven't been able to make the editor read the current settings of the hardware.

If I adjust a setting on the editor, the hardware responds, but if I turn a knob on the hardware, it doesnt change in the editor.

I've set the midi in and outs of both the Ipad and the Sub Phatty.

Is midi designer capable of reading current preset settings?

Thank you for reading

wim

Midi Designer does respond to midi in from hardware. I have a template for my Electribe ES-1 that works two ways. A couple of basics you can try:

• Open up the log window and move some knobs on the device to see if you’re getting any data.
• Add a knob of any kind and enable “Learn” then move a knob on the device and see if the knob picks up the value.

If the above fail then there’s a communication problem you’ll need to pinpoint on the settings of the phatty, your midi interface, or in the midi settings in Midi Designer. Swap the midi cables with each other as well just to be sure you don’t have a bad one.

If communication is working then be sure channel settings agree. Look at the received data in the log and try to decypher it to be sure you’re getting what you expect. Also check to be sure Midi Receive is turned on for each knob.

wim

You mention “presets”. Is this a separate question from getting the knobs to work bidirectionally?

The only way a preset can be read from a device (which I take to mean “load a preset on the device, and have all the knobs in the template reflect those values”) is if the device sends all the values when a preset is loaded. Most only send values when knobs are moved, not when presets are loaded, even though the knob values are changed. If the phatty doesn’t send them then you can’t load them.

Verchrona

Ah I rebooted everything and know it's communicating, kind of. For some reason, on CC8, it causes a massive midi feedback mess, and every parameter changes all at once when I turn that knob on both the app and the synth. There is no feedback when I pull out the cable going from the synth back into the app.

I think the Sub phatty should be able to send the values since Moog has a desktop editor for it. Correct? Unless there is some special coding in there, I'm very new to making midi editors, so I'm slowly learning here.

So far, it's like you said Wim, the knobs move, and they update the position on the app. Do you know how to get all the settings from the phaty to update the app so I can save my phatty presets from my Mac onto this app.