mdyde wrote:Hello abaymajr,
Thanks for the clarification.
I haven't so far been able to think of a way that you could force Hauptwerk to re-send all stop states via MIDI output (other than by resetting it, which wouldn't help for your intended purpose, of course).
I don't have first-hand experience with Bome's MIDI Translator, but if its programming/scripting facilities are sufficiently powerful to store, switch and recall mappings in real-time, then perhaps it would also be possible for you always to listen for the MIDI messages it receives from all relevant virtual stops, and store those states in variables, so that your program/script would already know what states the relevant stops needed to be be in when it switched mappings.
Hi Martin,
Just like to share with you and other people who might be monitoring this thread that I successfully implemented the "floating drawknobs" idea using Bome's MIDI. I was motivated by the imminent Poblet Abbey Metzler 2012 sampleset release by OAM. As a forehand trial, I did the test with another 3-manual ~50-stop organ sampleset. It took me some days of programming learning and testing. Storing and restoring drawkobs on/off states from two different divisions into variables was a relatively easy task between BOME MIDI Translator and the Roland console. The main challenge was to manage/decode those Rodgers/Roland shared sysex messages through bit-wise operations, so switched drawknobs would not interfere in other ones. Recoding those MIDI messages back to the console in the case of operating stops through Hauptwerk interface was also hard to understand what to do.
After all, everything became very functional. I designated different MIDI triggering messages for keyboard routing and for illuminated drawknobs routing, so an assistant or me could change/prepare registration for a given division without stop playing on another division.
I did not try this with the Viscount console yet, but I think it would be easier since on/off stop switching is signalized by single and independent MIDI messages.
If anyone would be interested on the MIDI Bome project that made this possible, private me I would be glad to share it with any intestered people.