Elation Midicon mapping questions
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 2:40 pm
Hello everybody,
After some time, I managed to make som shows with QLC+ 4.12. Some of them were simple, and some of them, more complicated. All of the shows were controlled by mouse, or by mapped keys on my keyboard. A few days ago, I decided to attach my Midicon to the program to start using it as my basic midi controller. But this gave me a headache enough to post here and make some questions.
First of all, is there a way to map a "select group" function on a button? In Midicon there are 12 touch keys, That I'd like to map them as a group (of fixtures, not channels) selector.
I tried to make a custom mapping and realized that if there is a way to map a group on a button, perhaps there's a way to make a multipage encoder frame to control functions of the group, even in operate mode as an override.
Second question is....How can I control an encoder to increase or decrease a value (of intensity, or anyting else)? It asks me to catch up with external controller, but doesn't give the option to set high, or low values.
As for the pages, I mapped them on the selection buttons at the top of the controller. Three multipage frames with the six selection keys, all in midi channel 1.
I assume that more questions will come up after the answers that I may get to those first questions.
To be honest, I tried to find similar posts but haven't found anything, so, if there's something I'm missing, forgive me and please show me the right post to read.
So far, I have no problems with the software, and I find iti rock solid to all of it's functions. Please, show me the way to become a happy user....
P.S. Any info asked will be provided from me to help anyone understand more of what I'm trying to do...
Sorry for the big post
Thanks a lot
Best regards
Edit: Perhaps this is a more general midi request, but since I use Midicon, I post it that way...
After some time, I managed to make som shows with QLC+ 4.12. Some of them were simple, and some of them, more complicated. All of the shows were controlled by mouse, or by mapped keys on my keyboard. A few days ago, I decided to attach my Midicon to the program to start using it as my basic midi controller. But this gave me a headache enough to post here and make some questions.
First of all, is there a way to map a "select group" function on a button? In Midicon there are 12 touch keys, That I'd like to map them as a group (of fixtures, not channels) selector.
I tried to make a custom mapping and realized that if there is a way to map a group on a button, perhaps there's a way to make a multipage encoder frame to control functions of the group, even in operate mode as an override.
Second question is....How can I control an encoder to increase or decrease a value (of intensity, or anyting else)? It asks me to catch up with external controller, but doesn't give the option to set high, or low values.
As for the pages, I mapped them on the selection buttons at the top of the controller. Three multipage frames with the six selection keys, all in midi channel 1.
I assume that more questions will come up after the answers that I may get to those first questions.
To be honest, I tried to find similar posts but haven't found anything, so, if there's something I'm missing, forgive me and please show me the right post to read.
So far, I have no problems with the software, and I find iti rock solid to all of it's functions. Please, show me the way to become a happy user....
P.S. Any info asked will be provided from me to help anyone understand more of what I'm trying to do...
Sorry for the big post
Thanks a lot
Best regards
Edit: Perhaps this is a more general midi request, but since I use Midicon, I post it that way...