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Discussions / Re: Alternative method of track to group routing
« Last post by norfolkmastering on Yesterday at 05:34:10 PM »Hi Alexey
Thanks very much for keeping me informed. I understand your explanation.
For now, the work-a-round which I have implemented is working 100% reliably so I have a functioning system.
To keep you up to date with my PIC programming progress:
My hardware mixer has 24 channels (tracks) which mix down to eight stereo buses (which I call 'groups'), and these groups mix down to one Master bus.
With the name based routing system, I always have one bus in Cakewalk named 'Master'.
The other eight buses can be freely named.
Today, I finished a PIC update which allows the 'Master' bus (in Cakewalk) to be placed in any slot position within the nine buses.
This was an interesting programming challenge because in the hardware mixer, the Master bus pcb is special and, of course, its output is physically connected to the monitor loudspeakers and master stereo tape machine. So far my update is working but lots of testing still to do.
Next step is to allow the number of 'groups' to be varied from one to eight. This means I will be able to add extra groups as I need them during a project, name them as I like to, and the hardware mixer will continue to be mapped correctly from Cakewalk/AZ. So now I will be implementing how to deal with AZ SysEx name outputs for buses which don't exist within the Cakewalk project. You already gave me very good advice on how to deal with this using the Feedback action 'Text =''.
As always, I could do none of this without AZ Controller and your continued support. A very big thank you from me to you!
Best regards
Robert
Thanks very much for keeping me informed. I understand your explanation.
For now, the work-a-round which I have implemented is working 100% reliably so I have a functioning system.
To keep you up to date with my PIC programming progress:
My hardware mixer has 24 channels (tracks) which mix down to eight stereo buses (which I call 'groups'), and these groups mix down to one Master bus.
With the name based routing system, I always have one bus in Cakewalk named 'Master'.
The other eight buses can be freely named.
Today, I finished a PIC update which allows the 'Master' bus (in Cakewalk) to be placed in any slot position within the nine buses.
This was an interesting programming challenge because in the hardware mixer, the Master bus pcb is special and, of course, its output is physically connected to the monitor loudspeakers and master stereo tape machine. So far my update is working but lots of testing still to do.
Next step is to allow the number of 'groups' to be varied from one to eight. This means I will be able to add extra groups as I need them during a project, name them as I like to, and the hardware mixer will continue to be mapped correctly from Cakewalk/AZ. So now I will be implementing how to deal with AZ SysEx name outputs for buses which don't exist within the Cakewalk project. You already gave me very good advice on how to deal with this using the Feedback action 'Text =''.
As always, I could do none of this without AZ Controller and your continued support. A very big thank you from me to you!
Best regards
Robert