MIDI Control of Programmer

[charlie]

I have bought a CueCable and a BCF2000 to use with cuelux, and so far I am very happy with it. With some small tweaks, the BCF is now working nicely with cuelux, and running shows will be easy.

However, I am looking to control the programmer with the BCF, using a different preset on the BCF. Looking through some old threads, and reading the other midimaps carefully, there seems to be some support for it, but it isn't great.

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<action>
<trigger type="Midi" specifier="Change">Channel 0 - Message 9 - Index 1</trigger>
<tasks>
<task type="Special" feature="Programmer Wheel 1 Increment" function ="Set"/>
        </tasks>
</action>The code above will increment the first programmer wheel (the red channel of my generic RGB fixture when in colour, but nothing else), when the "Note on" event is received on MIDI send channel 1, with the MIDI note number 1. Although I have yet to try it, replacing "Increment" with "Decrement", and 1 with another number, other values can be incremented or decremented.
What I would really like to do, is to be able to assign a fader to the channel, and use that to control the value.

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<action>
<trigger type="Midi" specifier="Change">Channel 0 - Message 11 - Index 1</trigger>
<tasks>
<task type="Special" feature="Programmer Wheel 1" function ="Control"/>
        </tasks>
</action>One would've though some code such as this would achieve what I was looking for, setting the value of programmer wheel 1 to the value received from a Control Change message on MIDI channel 1, Index 1, but this is not the case. Is there any way for me to achieve what I'm looking for, and be able to use my Behringer as a physical programming interface as well as a running interface?

Is it possible to have "Programmer Wheel 1" effect the colour field even when I am not directly on the colour page? If not that, then another option ("Programmer Colour Red" for example)?

[Maarten Engels]

hi Charlie,

You're right i've supported the 'wheel 1 - Set'. You're the first doing a 'wheel 1 - Control' so i would need to enable that in the code. No problem.

The 'Wheel 1' is context sensitive; it depends on the selected programmer page. So next step would be to add your proposed 'Programmer Colur Red' function.

I've put it on my todo list!

[charlie]

Fantastic! This is truly excellent support. Do you have any idea what sort of timeframe we're looking at until these features will be available?

[KnowSlumber]

I'm waiting on this as well. Being able to map sliders to colors, strobe speed, etc is super important when doing live shows.