automate pulsar mixer with a Logic control

Jerome · Post by **Jerome** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:01 pm

Hello every logic/mackie control owner,

Don´t get it why I didn´t come up with this idea earlier, it so simple. So here it is for anyone who also never thougt of it.
In Logic you can have 32 busses. I only use the first 8 or 16, so i thought why not use the next 8 (or16)for controlling a mixer in Pulsar.
In the audio enviroment you connect the midi outs of the busses to a transformer to change the data in a midi controller. This you can send to a midiout to pulsar. Now the faders of the logic(or mackie)control can be used to control the faders of a pulsar mixer. When you select ´icon´ in the parameters of the bus you can make a track for that bus and use the automation functions to automate the pulsar mixer (you don´t need a logic control for this). I guess this is also possible in other sequenseprograms.
Soo easy, but very usefull (at least for me).
greetz Jerome.

R&S studio´s

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:12 pm

I use a tascam fw1884 in mackie control mode with a small java program i made to control STM mixers, without the need for a sequencer running.

That makes me 4 banks of 8 faders+knob i can assign and display in the scribbles strip

Jerome · Post by **Jerome** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:29 pm

Thats also nice. For me the most important improvement is that I don´t have to leave my sequenceprogram when mixing a song and that I don´t have an extra controller on (my alreaddy full) desk. I have a evolution 33 that i use for adjusting studiomonitorlevels and headphone mixes but it isn´t precise enough for mixing appart from the fact that it isn´t motorised.

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:00 pm

Do you have the Logic Control hooked up to the Pulsar MIDI I/O? Or do you have an AMT8 or similar connected to Logic directly (i.e. Logic routes the signals from the Logic Control into Pulsar via a Seq MIDI source)? I'm just wondering if it would be better, if the LC is connected to the Pulsar MIDI directly, to route the MIDI out into the SFP environment there, rather than going into Logic and coming back out into SFP.

I guess it's only a matter of time until someone with the SDK comes up with something which can harness the LC/MC directly in Scope.

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:46 pm

You can also load up faders/knobs in an environement window, and assign a MIDI CC to them, if you ever run out of faders on the proper mixer.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:09 am

The real problem is actually cw mixers. They don't have enough CC.

I can't automate everything 'cause of that.

Too bad

Post by **hubird** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:09 am

.......... ' 10 cc should be enough...oughhh '

Jerome · Post by **Jerome** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:06 pm

On 2004-12-18 15:00, dArKr3zIn wrote:
Do you have the Logic Control hooked up to the Pulsar MIDI I/O? Or do you have an AMT8 or similar connected to Logic directly (i.e. Logic routes the signals from the Logic Control into Pulsar via a Seq MIDI source)? I'm just wondering if it would be better, if the LC is connected to the Pulsar MIDI directly, to route the MIDI out into the SFP environment there, rather than going into Logic and coming back out into SFP.

I guess it's only a matter of time until someone with the SDK comes up with something which can harness the LC/MC directly in Scope.

Yes I have a atm8 where the logic control is connected. The pulsar midi in gave me timing problems and errors in the past, I only use it for a evolution 33 controller.
When you want to connect the logiccontrol directly to the pulsar midi in you need to send some systemexclusive stuff to activate the logic control. I believe it's described somewhere on planetZ (in a post from Rob van Berkel? can't remember). I don't know if the logiccontrol still works for Logic then, never tried. Via the amt8 works ok for me.

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:23 am

On 2004-12-19 14:06, Jerome wrote:
..... I believe it's described somewhere on planetZ (in a post from Rob van Berkel? can't remember).

I can't remember either

Blame yesterdays bottle of wine for that

What I do know is that I have a studiomix, connected to AMT 8. Via logic the midi is routed to SFP, sequencer in, where the midi-data is converted by the Digilogue Studiomix device and fed into the mixer or synth. Oh, the midi is also fed back to make the motorfaders actually move on changing presets or automation.
Cheers,
Rob

Jerome · Post by **Jerome** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:15 am

Aha, Sorry Rob. Must have mixed some names then. I just did a planetZ search and could't find the post anyway. Just wondering if it was on this forum then. (must have drunk the same brand of wine or so

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