MIDI controllers not working....

[bblinky]

Hey peeps,

I have been working solely in QLC+ and I love the program!!

I have had a few bad experiences though, since the are I Work in sometimes require me to use MIDI controllers not previously tested, where standart MIDI controllers (keyboards etc.) has been refusing to comunicate with QLC+ for some reason...

Of course I did not have the time or surplus of mental resources, due to the stressfull situation of having a show to run and beeing quite a few buttons down in my settup, to write Down the models of the speciffic controllers in question.

So, for now I would like to ask what steps I can take to debug these issues and I would like to make a list of non compliant controllers with debug info so that they can be worked on and I very much encourage you all to do the same so we can all have less of these headache inducing situations in the future '

I am personally using either Ubuntu in the newest LTS vesion or Arch in fully updated version (I have not built my Arch/QLC settup yet, so for now everything is in Ubuntu)

Thank you and happy hacking.
- bblinky

[mcallegari]

Hi,
well, without knowing the controllers you tested, it is quite difficult to suggest a direction.

MIDI is MIDI, no doubt about that, BUT

- some devices send Control Change, some Program Change, some just Notes. QLC+ should map all of them transparently
- the MIDI channel is fundamental. Some devices use channel 1, some other the OMNI channel (in QLC+ 1-16), some others can be configured to use a specific channel

In Linux I always suggest to use kmidimon to trace how the device works.
If you see messages, then most likely the device can be used in QLC+ too as we both use ALSA.

Dunno if this helps