thats exactly the detail, i was confused as you some time ago...
Fortunately a Mackie Control compatible controller is not required to control these buttons, as they are steered by simple Note On/Off commands on
MIDI channel 1.
With buttons I understand also snapshot buttons and the list provides Note-On commands for the snapshot buttons.
I understood this exactly as you as this is in the "MIDI Control" chapter. I ran into the same confusion longer time ago...
So, its either documented not clearly, or wrong, or TM has really a bug.
This behaviour is the same at least from TM 1.78. and up...
"Mackie Control compatible controller is not required" is generally true ("real" Mackie Hardware Controller not needed). But maybe RME meant this like this? Thats just how i interpreted this for me:
Fortunately a Mackie Control compatible controller is not required to control these buttons, as they are steered by simple Note On/Off commands on MIDI channel 1. But in TM under Mackie Control Options, "Enable Protocol Support" has to be checked if you want to use the Note On/Off commands via MIDI. While the CC commands do not need this.
But I don't get it to work now with the actual TM 1.93
Totalmix does not receive Midi notes or it ignores them.
No reaction at all.
You had not checked Mackie Protocol Enabled in this scenario?
If Yes, same here - No Mackie Protocol Enabled in TM - no Note Messeges either accepted or tranceived.
And furthermore if you select a Midi output, Totalmix is sending a Midi Note-On command repeatedly like crazy !
Setting the Midi output to none stops this.
You had checked Mackie Protocol Enabled in this scenario, right?
Its the Midi Loopback Detection. From Manual:
The Mackie Control protocol requires feedback of the received commands, back to the hardware
controller. So usually TotalMix will be set up with both a MIDI input and MIDI output. Unfortunately
any small error in wiring and setup will cause a MIDI feedback loop here, which then completely
blocks the computer (the CPU).
To prevent the computer from freezing, TotalMix sends a special MIDI note every 0.5 seconds to
its MIDI output. As soon as it detects this special note at the input, the MIDI functionality is disa-
bled. After fixing the loopback, check Enable MIDI Control under Options to reactivate the To-
talMix MIDI.
Same here too (look, the messages are sent in 0.5 ms intervals):
20:46:43.401 From IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:43.416 To IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:44.220 From IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:44.232 To IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:45.042 From IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:45.056 To IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:45.864 From IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:45.864 To IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
20:46:46.681 From IAC Bus1 Note On 16 G9 90
Afaik, IAC Busses are behaving like an MIDI THRU enabled device.
But... what i dont understand: TM should disable the MIDI Functionality in this case. But it doesnt...?
And I remember, I had situations, where TM disabled it - i used the units hardware port with a real synth and activated midi thru accidentally.
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