Hello psallo,
psallo wrote: I have associated general pistons 1 - 10 both with Master Generals 1 - 10 and with Trigger cued buttons xx0 - xx9, in the Registration large panel.
Not quite -- you definitely *wouldn't* want your 10 MIDI pistons mapped to both master generals and stepper trigger pistons, otherwise both types of combinations would get triggered (yielding unintended results) whenever you pressed one of those pistons.
Please try:
1. On the Registration large control panel, right-click on each of master generals 1-10 and select 'Clear all MIDI ...'.
2. Do likewise for stepper trigger pistons xx0-xx9.
3. For good measure, verify that your 10 MIDI pistons are no longer triggering anything.
4. Now use right-click auto-detection (e.g.the 'for all organs' option) to auto-detect the 10 MIDI pistons to stepper trigger pistons xx0-xx9.
5. Now set the stepper 'cued' frame to 000.
6. Click on the master general 1 button on the control panel, to recall its combination.
7. Turn the setter on.
8. Press your first MIDI piston (=stepper trigger piston xx0) to store the registration to stepper frame 000.
9. Turn the setter off again.
10. Repeat steps 6-9 for each of the remaining nine pistons. (I.e. recall master general 2, store it to stepper frame 001 using the xx1 trigger piston, recall master general 3, store it to stepper frame 002 using the xx2 trigger piston, etc.)
11. With the setter (still) off, check each of your 10 MIDI pistons in turn to make sure that they are recalling the intended registrations (without the bass coupler), i.e. that the first MIDI pistons (=stepper trigger piston xx0) is recalling the registration which you previously had stored to master general 1, that the xx1 piston is recalling the registration which you previously had stored to master general 2, etc.
12. Save a copy of the combination set (file) via '
Registration | Save combination set as ...' as a backup for good measure.
13. Now go to the '
Combination stepper (all)' large control panel.
14. Set the stepper 'cued' frame back to 000.
15. Set the stepper editor's '
Block size N=' to 100 (e.g. by clicking on the '100' button).
16. Click its 'Copy' button.
17. Now set the stepper 'cued' frame to 100.
18. Click the stepper editor's '
Paste (ovr)' button. When asked '
Are you sure you want to paste (overwriting) a block of 100 frames at cued frame 100?', click the 'Continue' button.
19. Press your first MIDI piston again (=stepper trigger piston xx0). It should recall the same registration that it did before (i.e. the registration that you previously had stored to master general 1). Since the stepper's 'cued' frame number is set to 100, you should see the stepper's 'Current' frame number becomes 100+0=100 (i.e. doesn't change).
20. Turn the setter on.
21. Turn the bass coupler on.
22. Press your first MIDI piston again (=stepper trigger piston xx0) to store the registration (which now also includes the bass coupler) to stepper frame 100.
24. Turn the setter off again.
25. Repeat steps 19-24 for each of your other nine MIDI pistons, i.e. using your second MIDI piston to recall stepper frame 101, adding the bass coupler, storing the registration back to stepper frame 101, using your third MIDI piston to recall stepper frame 102, adding the bass coupler, storing the registration back to stepper frame 102, etc.
26. Save another copy of the combination set (file) via '
Registration | Save combination set as ...' as a backup for good measure.
27. Finally, verify that your 10 MIDI pistons still recall the intended registrations (without the bass coupler) when the stepper's 'cued' frame number is set to 000, but that when the stepper's 'cued' frame number is set to 100 they recall the same registrations but with the bass coupler.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.