MIDI-CAT and 'Re-send MIDI feedback'

Hm, I think this is caused by MIDI CCs having a range from 0 to 127 and thus no center value. I’m curious how other software handles this…

I have another question which I hope is a silly one with an easy answer. Once again, I am mapping knobs on the MIDI Fighter Twister. The knobs on this device can also be pressed for a click, like buttons. So I have the click action of one of the knobs mapped to a switch on a module. The switch happens to be a three-state switch. I’ve tried the various button configurations in the MIDI Twister Fighter app, but I can get MIDI-MAP and the Twister to recognize only two of the button’s states: high and low. IT skips over the middle value. Any ideas?

I have an open feature request for buttons/switches with more than two states, waiting to be implemented for a long time. When I get a good idea about the user interface I’ll add it to MIDI-CAT, someday… :wink:

Thanks for the update, Ben.

Yes, now that I understand those adjustment sliders in the menu, I don’t know how I would handle X number of extra buttons states either, menu-wise …

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Hi @tomfug, at the moment I am creating a BCR patch to easily control VCV, with the use of 16 presets with all unique midi cc, that I would like to share with the community. At the moment I got most up and working. The only thing that doesn’t work still is that the MIDI-CAT module doesn’t make the light controllers of the BCR ‘aware’ of presets other than preset number 1. I would love to implement the workaround you described in this BCR patch. Would you mind sharing how you map a ‘Re-send Midi Feedback’ information?

I also would like to say that the MIDI-CAT module is amazing <3

Edit: just noted that “re-send midi feedback” isn’t implemented yet, and your post was meant as hypothesis :slight_smile: So I will keep following this post ^^

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I have no open feature request on this one. Feel free to create a new issue on Github.

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Just got support from Ben on this matter. For those who have this problem in the future: I uploaded this patch to the BCR, so it has 16 presets with all unique midi knobs. I add 16 MIDI-Cat instances to VCV every one with an unique Midi Channel selected. Then right click the module, and toggle on ‘Periodically’ for ‘Re-send Midi Feedback’. Save te patch, and next time you open up the patch, all the Led’s of evey midi channel and midi preset, jump to their right positions.

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I’ve arrived at this thread in 2022 - is the library that contains MIDI-CAT not available for VCV Rack 2? I have a MIDI Fighter Twister and -CAT seems to be the ticket to get feedback, but it’s no longer in the VCV library.

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It’s not in the library yet (should be soon)

In the meantime you can download it from the Assets section on Stoermelder’s Github page:

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