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insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:46 pm

maki wrote:What did I do wrong? I am using energyXT 1.4. And how can I configure system to start recording when I press sustainpedal and to end recording and start looping when I release it?

in eXT 1.4, use the CC map to map CC64 to "Record"... that should do it. not sure why it wouldn't work.

swivel · Post by **swivel** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:57 am

Hi, I was trying out the midiLFO plugin in reaper (wrapped in energyxt to get multiple instances), and after a while the plugin sliders stop showing up.

To get it back, I have to close and reopen the project. At first things work, but i I close the FX window and reopen it, I seem to run into this.

Does this happen with all GUIless plugins with reaper/ext? Is there a workaround?

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:02 am

probably a reaper/ext problem, so the best bet would be for it to be fixed in reaper... i'll test it though to make sure.

swivel · Post by **swivel** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:49 pm

insertpizhere wrote:probably a reaper/ext problem, so the best bet would be for it to be fixed in reaper... i'll test it though to make sure.

Thanks

I suspect it may have to do with the way reaper handles its FX window, but couldn't find anything in reaper forum. In any case, it's not a show stopper.

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:09 pm

yes, it seems to happen with any plugin without a gui. i guess the workaround would be to never close the FX window, or to use XT2 instead

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:38 am

small update to the XT2 transport control VST. the windows version didn't work with newer versions of XT2 because the window title doesn't have the "2" anymore.

this isn't really necessary anymore since the transport has cc control, but it still might be useful in some cases (more convenient note control, sequencing of events, or triggering from a different sequencer, channel selection, etc...). it won't be in the next "pizmidi" package though.

http://thepiz.org/xt/XT2transport.zip

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:14 am

one more:

Big Clock updated; now you can get use the menu to get all the settings for ticks per beat and frames per second.

http://thepiz.org/xt/Big%20Clock.zip

still waiting for someone to test it past a hundred billion hours...

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:58 pm

windows pizmidi collection update.

http://thepiz.org/xt/pizmidi20071222.zip

changes:
* Updated midi2qwerty to have 16 slots instead of 4, and renamed it to midi2qwerty16
* Removed XT2 transport control (still available separately)
* Removed midiCCToTempo
* Plugins will now automatically become "instrument" VSTs in hosts that need it
* Removed separate instrument versions

i'm not sure that i know of all hosts that can send midi out of an instrument but not an effect, so let me know if you find a host that these don't work in.

right now it looks for any Steinberg, Ableton, or Twelve Tone Systems host (tested with Cubase LE, Live 6 demo, and Sonar 7 demo). all other hosts i could think of either will work fine with the effect versions, or can't send out midi from VSTs at all.

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:51 am

I have mucho need for NRPN to CC# in OSX, Midi Pipe seems to only be able to translate one at a time!

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:58 am

kodama wrote:I have mucho need for NRPN to CC# in OSX, Midi Pipe seems to only be able to translate one at a time!

how many do you want to translate at a time?

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:32 am

Oh, 90 or more

I'm using my Electribe ESX with Live and there don't seem to be many options..

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:26 am

But, if ur plug did like 10, I could just chain 10 of them together!

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:45 pm

ok... 16 slots for conversion. it will do CC to NRPN and NRPN to CC, as well as other weird things.

to choose an NRPN, first change the "Coarse" parameter, then the "(N)RPN" parameter. RPN/NRPNs are displayed as hex values, but CCs are in decimal... this could be configurable in the future, probably as another parameter added on at the end.

when chaining them, set Thru (last parameter) to "yes" on all but the last one. (for NRPN input, Thru set to "no" will block any CC 98,99,6,38,96, and 97 messages.)

download: OS X / Windows

let me know if there are any problems.

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:49 pm

Woot!

Thank you piz!

insertpizhere · Post by **insertpizhere** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:24 pm

update for all platforms:

* updated midiNRPNConverter and added to pizmidi package
* updated midiConverter with many more conversion types, and renamed it to midiConverter2
* Linux and OS X versions brought up to date

Download:
Windows: http://thepiz.org/xt/pizmidi20080104.zip
Linux: http://thepiz.org/xt/pizmidi20080104.tar.bz2
OS X: http://thepiz.org/xt/pizmidi20080104.dmg

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