Octatrack + Soleman midi foot controller

OK,
As far as I can make out you can put it altogether:

Switch number:

  1. sends PC as is thro’ Midihub to OT
  2. sends MIDI Note/CC to Midihub which Transforms to Reset
  3. sends CC55=127 to Midihub. Adapted (1+16) Dispatcher pipeline changes it to different Scene value each time in a cycle
  4. same for CC56

Oh, and Soleman converts the Exp pedal to whatever CC the OT wants for its Scene fader

Hi there! Thank you Resonotter for help. This is my patch for the moment. Row 1 @ 2 are for the scene A & B of the OT and affected on the Switches 3 & 4 of the Soleman. It works fine! Row 4 & 5 of the patch is for a play/stop of the sequencer affected on SW2 of my soleman, works fine too!
Row 6 of the patch is to increment PC from 0 to 15 on Switch 1 of the Soleman (= PATTERNS A1 to A16 of the OT). It also works fine but i’m wondering how to set it for going up to 64?
SOLEMAN OT.mhp (1.1 KB)

Any idea how to make a “Reset all” to value 0?
A CC/NOTE (whatever the value it can be set up In soleman’s editor) coming from soleman in another page resetting Scene A & B & PC (rows 1, 2 & 6 of this patch) to value 0.
This reset is usefull to begin a new song with all values at the start point.
thank you!

Pipeline with 3 Transforms?
(all What = “Soleman SW output”):

  1. Mode =Insert After, Into = “CC for Scene A → 0”
  2. Mode =Insert After, Into = “CC for Scene B → 0”
  3. Mode =Replace, Into = “PC → 0”

(plus any filters to keep tidy)

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Row 6 of the patch is to increment PC from 1 to 16 on Switch 1 of the Soleman (= PATTERNS A1 to A16 of the OT). It also works fine but i’m wondering how to set it for going up to 64?

I was just writing you an explanation pointing you to patch 2 here:

but then I had another thought…

…give me a moment…


EDIT: before I think on that, a question comes to mind:
do you want to be tapping through 64 patterns in practice?
The nice thing about your patch is it’s customisable for a given "set:

  • one preset version could go in the sequence 0,1,2,etc
  • while another could go 6, 7,23, whatever

If you do want cycle through 64 patterns see above…
…in meantime, I’ll see whether my new idea “holds water”!

OK. Give this a try (not tested myself cos not near Midihub)

Basic idea is your your last pipeline adapted:

All line 1 does is Dispatch created note to 4 channels and send to vH
vH pipelines picks up each of 4 channels in turn:

and then do their own Dispatches


you would set the sequence 0,1,2 looking vertically as it were

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For the moment i keep the idea to progress +1 patterns on each pressure, but for sure a custom set is great too! On the OT, 16 Patterns are stored into Banks (A, B, C…), so calling a bank could also be used as calling a “song” if there is no more than 16 patterns into it.
I’ll have a look on your links, i should have reading on the forum before to ask :wink:
Many thanks!

Fair enough.

Check out my pics above before resorting to a loopback approach.

Should work, but test with a small sample of Transforms first: it will be very boring to set up all 64!

could be a shortcut?


PS.
re:

I’ll have a look on your links, i should have reading on the forum before to ask

I deliberately didn’t mention them to start, cos I think it’s best to avoid loopbacks if one can!

could be a shortcut?

great idea!

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I’m up to finish my m.Hub patch to control an Octatrack with the Soleman midi footswitch. There is still one thing i do not get : how to set the MSB & the LSB of a program change in midi hub editor?

Here is the CC of the soleman’s editor to be transform in PC in midi hub editor’s :

soleman editor

MSB & LSB in midi hub’s editor
Capture d’écran 2023-03-13 à 12.38.01

PC chart of the OT :
PC chart OT

So my set up of the Soleman’s footswitch is : SW1 = Pattern up (up to H16, i’d like to reach P16 with the good MSB value), SW2 = Play/Stop, SW3 = Scene A up, SW4, = Scene B up, CC48 scene fade = expression pedal

think you got that from here

if you read down to here, there’s an better explanation. It makes it clear your MSB is not about PC but Bank Select

look up “Bank Select” here and you’ll see it’s "Controller number zero (with 32 as the LSB) ".

so it seems…
…you need CC#0 = [0,1] followed by your PC…

…the question then becomes more about how Soleman footpresses can send the data for Midihub to do it’s bit in knowing when to trigger CC#0 = 0 vs CC#0 = 1.
(is, for example it smart enough to respond to a long-press|short-press?)

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In panel mode you can also select any switch to activate a macro within the Soleman. And the macro itself can be programmed in any way you want (50 data bytes).
I e transmit one or several messages of different kind.

Macro is easily one of the most powerful features in the Soleman…

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Soleman does unfortunately not utilize long/short press.
Latching, momentary, one shot or radio buttons.

Yeah, didn’t think it would, but was hoping.

Saw the macros capability when I had a quick glance, but it seemed to me that what @albadort what ultimately aiming for was going to need more than 4 x binary states so I started wondering about about how to get more than two states out of a foot-switch preferably “natively”.

I made a long/short press patch (using a 1shot LFO as a timer) a while back, I might dig it out and post it to patchstorage when i have time to document it.

Thanks both of you, looking forward for the LFO timer, i’ll have also a look at the macros on the Soleman. for now my simple configuration works pretty well with soleman switches to drive the O.track via M.hub.

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