Loopy Pro and the full PC message

VoytecG

Can Loopy Pro send MIDI message Bank select (LSB MSB) and Program Change?
I can't find this possibility, but maybe there exists?

Michael

LP can send PC messages (with the "Send MIDI" action); I haven't built in support for Bank Select yet, although you can enter a custom MIDI string and put in anything you like.

In the next version you'll be able to enter "xx" anywhere in the custom field to substitute the value of a slider/dial/etc, so you'll be able to do stuff like "B0 00 01 C0 xx" for a Bank Select message.

wim

A bank select message is just two CC messages in a row. Loopy can send any sequence of CC's in an action, so all you need to do is send those, followed a Program Change message.

Bank select uses CC#0 for the MSB (most significant byte) and CC#32 for the LSB (least significant byte). The value of the CC selects the bank. Some targets only use the MSB, so you can omit the CC#32 for those.

Michael

@wim said:
A bank select message is just two CC messages in a row. Loopy can send any sequence of CC's in an action, so all you need to do is send those, followed a Program Change message.

Bank select uses CC#0 for the MSB (most significant byte) and CC#32 for the LSB (least significant byte). The value of the CC selects the bank. Some targets only use the MSB, so you can omit the CC#32 for those.

Nice one!

wim

@Michael said:

@wim said:
A bank select message is just two CC messages in a row. Loopy can send any sequence of CC's in an action, so all you need to do is send those, followed a Program Change message.

Bank select uses CC#0 for the MSB (most significant byte) and CC#32 for the LSB (least significant byte). The value of the CC selects the bank. Some targets only use the MSB, so you can omit the CC#32 for those.

Nice one!

Those substitute values will be HUGE for a lot of things. 😎👍🏼

VoytecG

@Michael
@wim
Thank you very much for your response.
I just got home from ......., closed the front door and sat on the rig with no rest. Interesting that until now I never associated the MSB and LSB in the cc#0 and cc#32 positions with those used in the MSB-LSB-PC combination. Imagination was not set. I typed in some MIDI actions and as far as I can see it works. Of course the sysex message also works. I will now have a very busy two days, so that the next attempts on Thursday. Thanks again and all the best wishes.

wim

@VoytecG - glad it helped.
Here are a few links that helped me understand this:

http://www.andrelouis.com/qws/art/art009.htm
http://midi.teragonaudio.com/tech/midispec/bank.htm

quadbus

@Michael said:
In the next version you'll be able to enter "xx" anywhere in the custom field to substitute the value of a slider/dial/etc, so you'll be able to do stuff like "B0 00 01 C0 xx" for a Bank Select message.

I assume support of "xx" replacement was added? I didn't see it in the documentation.

espiegel123

@quadbus said:

@Michael said:
In the next version you'll be able to enter "xx" anywhere in the custom field to substitute the value of a slider/dial/etc, so you'll be able to do stuff like "B0 00 01 C0 xx" for a Bank Select message.

I assume support of "xx" replacement was added? I didn't see it in the documentation.

It was added but appears not have made it into the documentation.