MIDI Mapping with MC6 Controller - Cannot Learn
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:20 pm
I am wondering whether anyone has had any success sending a CC message from a Morningstar MC6 (or similar) to control the Voicemeeter Potato Tape Recorder. With the MC6, you tell it what MIDI message you want to send when a button is pushed and to which MIDI channel. You can also send Sysex messages.
I've arbitrarily decided to use channel 5 (as I have other devices on channels 1-4) and decided on sending a MIDI CC 10 with a value of 127 for start record, and a value of 0 for stop record. This is basically the same way (different codes) other pedals do it (ie my FM3 or Aeros Looper).
I've updated to the latest firmware (v3.9.8) which provides multiple virtual MIDI ports, so I connect to the MC6 editor interface on port 1, leaving 3 other ports available. I have also disconnected my MC6 from the pedalboard, and just using the USB connection so that there is no other interference.
So when I start up the MIDI Mapping on VM Potato (x64), I selected port 2 of the MC6 as the input MIDI device, navigate to page 5, and hit the [LEARN] button on the record, then hit the designated button which should be sending CC 10 127 on channel 5. Problem is, nothing shows up in VM.
I tried changing to output on channel 1, and also tried outputting to all channels (well, that is a PC, but I assumed VM would learn it just the same?), still nothing.
I have also had a look at the raw xml file that it created if you save the mappings, but as I don't have a controller that can actually set a value, it is hard to know how to read the values in the xml file to see what to manually change it to...ie what are b1..b6 etc..
I resorted to using the API to control it from an external program I wrote in c# to trigger the recording (and in this case, also hit space bar in the Ultimate-Guitar browser window to begin playback of a backing track 
) but I'd rather just drive it from the footswitch!
Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated!
Craig
I've arbitrarily decided to use channel 5 (as I have other devices on channels 1-4) and decided on sending a MIDI CC 10 with a value of 127 for start record, and a value of 0 for stop record. This is basically the same way (different codes) other pedals do it (ie my FM3 or Aeros Looper).
I've updated to the latest firmware (v3.9.8) which provides multiple virtual MIDI ports, so I connect to the MC6 editor interface on port 1, leaving 3 other ports available. I have also disconnected my MC6 from the pedalboard, and just using the USB connection so that there is no other interference.
So when I start up the MIDI Mapping on VM Potato (x64), I selected port 2 of the MC6 as the input MIDI device, navigate to page 5, and hit the [LEARN] button on the record, then hit the designated button which should be sending CC 10 127 on channel 5. Problem is, nothing shows up in VM.
I tried changing to output on channel 1, and also tried outputting to all channels (well, that is a PC, but I assumed VM would learn it just the same?), still nothing.
I have also had a look at the raw xml file that it created if you save the mappings, but as I don't have a controller that can actually set a value, it is hard to know how to read the values in the xml file to see what to manually change it to...ie what are b1..b6 etc..
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<MidiMapItem id='TapeRec' b1='00' b2='00' b3='00' b4='00' b5='00' b6='00' coder='0' ptt='0' feed1='0' feed2='0' omni='0' disabled='0' />Code: Select all
try
{
vmrApi.SetParameter("recorder.FileType", 1);
vmrApi.SetParameter("Recorder.samplerate", 48000);
Process p = Process.GetProcesses().Where(x => x.MainWindowTitle == comboBox1.Text).FirstOrDefault();
if (p != null)
{
IntPtr h = p.MainWindowHandle;
SetForegroundWindow(h);
vmrApi.SetParameter("Recorder.bitResolution", 24);
vmrApi.SetParameter("recorder.record", 1);
SendKeys.SendWait(" ");
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
Craig