Next and Previous Song parts controlled by a Roland AX-7?

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Hello Everyone,

I have set up in Global Rack Space, a next and previous button through System Actions, and it works perfectly, but I’m trying to control those buttons with my Roland AX-7, I tried learning it to the patch up and down, but it seems to be sending more information and doesn’t work correctly, is it possible with the AX-7? I was able to do it with the Roland AX-Edge, but I know it’s a completely different animal, and really bulky.

Thanks

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Please check which the midi messages come from your controller (use GP’s global midi monitor from the menus). Upload a screenshot from the midi monitor window so we can see what exactly is coming in from your AX7.

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Patch up
Patch up1372×768 155 KB

Patch Down
Patch Down1314×772 154 KB

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Ok… those controller buttons are made to switch patches via program change message.
I think, it wouldn’t work “out of the box” to use these for the “next/previous” System Action… but maybe it might be doable with a gig script which would “catch” the direction of the counting PC and then transform it to a corresponding CC message which could be used.

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Thanks,

Gig scripts currently are out of my knowledge scope, I was hoping someone might have tried this, and I was just missing a simple work around.

Thanks for you help

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For some reason I did a quick search and it looks (maybe) like that controller can be configured to send cc messages. Maybe check the manual?

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I was thinking if I programmed the patches to just sent that, but I tried with the manual, and it didn’t work for me, or I wasn’t doing it correctly

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So this is not really a surprise — your controller is just sending out a bunch of reset message on two channels on the assumption that whatever receives those messages will know how to respond – these look like messages that are typical GM (General MIDI) style.

While you could in principle manually define the specific message to which you want GP to respond, you normally can’t use Program Changes messages for the precise reason that Gig Performer is designed to switch to a specific rackspace/variation or Song/SongPart based on the incoming bank messages (CC 0 and 32) so it’s not really practical to use PC messages for anything other than going to a specific rackspace, etc.

It must be possible to change those buttons (are there just two, one for up and one for down?) so that they send two distinct CC messages, e.g. CC 52 and CC 53 (I just made those up) both with value 127. Those could then be mapped to the Next and Prev respectively.

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I checked the manual, and it won’t allow you to change what that is sending, since it’s moving the AX-7 patches up and down, so whatever is in those patches is what is getting sent out midi wise, I’ll have to see if I can water down those patches just to send CC message