On 31/07/2005, at 10:05 PM, John Pitcairn wrote: > --- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Paul Najar <paulnajar@j...> wrote: >> I believe that MOTU's Cuemix has offered midi control for some time >> now. > > Yes. Unfortunately MOTU apps can't be used with LC Xmu because MOTU in > their infinite wisdom do not support control surfaces used via virtual > CoreMIDI ports - the control surface communication is via hardware > ports only. Interesting. For a second with the recent Totalmix update I feared that RME might have done the same thing. Clever Guys they are. They always seem to get their functionality just right to my way of thinking. > I got the master-fader split working. It requires using the older > Logic 7.0.1 LC control surface plugin (which doesn't do MC-mode), and > booting the LC into Mackie Control mode, so Logic can't aggressively > grab it (I really hope Logic will stop doing this in the future, no > other apps do it without the user's permission). Then LC Xmu can > handle it from there, though realistically only one app should write > to the MC displays & LEDs, otherwise it gets just a bit messy & > confusing. Advanced users only... > > In practice, it's also completely workable (and a lot easier to set up > and use) to use LC Xmu's host-switching ability to quickly toggle the > whole surface between hosts, allowing each host to think it has > exclusive use of the LC/MC, with full update on each switch & no midi > conflict. > > This currently works well, assigning the LC "user" button to rotate > between Logic, Cubase, TotalMix, Live 5 etc - though running all four > at once to test is really a strain for my poor old TiBook. Ok. So do you mean that your thinking is that you should -switch- the LC/MC so it's controlling one or the other at one time? It reads that this is what you're looking at. To my way of thinking the ideal would be to have certain buttons & faders on the LC/MC controlling Logic and other buttons & faders on the same LC controlling Totalmix. All active at the same time. The ideal way for this would be to be able to specify which program (logic or Totalmix) each controller on the surface sends to. Is this possible and do you see the value in this sort of approach? Kind regards ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com